In the debate about civility, about how to make strong and lively points without demonization, a phrase from Orwell seems useful to me. It comes toward the end of his passionate engagement with Dickens' work, and various attempts to coopt it…
Read more >>Private investigators have revealed to Conservative Examiner the details of an investigation into the frantic effort by Obama operatives to stop all questions concerning the Constitutional issue of Presidential eligibility. The ongoing investigati…
Read more >>Here’s my video clip of the month so far, with a hat tip to Gene Expression. The Writer tells us that: Self-control is the ability to inhibit an immediate course of action in the pursuit of a longer-term goal or to consciously override a bas…
Read more >>By REV. FRED GARRY NORTH COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE We all believe in Public Health. If a child is sick at school, send them home. If a group of people has an infectious disease, quarantine them. No one likes the idea of someone losing the right to li…
Read more >>Tim Pawlenty, Peter King, and Pat Sajak all feature in today’s Morning Jolt, but it begins with a look at an odd poll question: Inconvenient Conclusions Get Surveys Left in the Poll Vault CBS began Tuesday by telling us, “Overall, 57…
Read more >>The Los Angeles Times has done it again. In an inflammatory article titled "Arizona's us-vs.-them brand of politics," Veteran writer Nicholas Riccardi blames this past weekend's Arizona massacre on Republicans, Tea Party members, people who are ag…
Read more >>by Michael E. Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89. Senate Democrats in the 111th Congress got a lot of mileage from procedural cheating (fiscal and legislative) -- and from extorting concessions from Republica…
Read more >>The Star-Ledger reported more of New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell's reaction to the shootings in Arizona. Pascrell is quoted as saying that ""I’m looking for some of the churches and the synagogues and the Mosques, the places of worsh…
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