Not a definition but a darned good description of politics May 14, 2006 “In politics, there are no right answers, only a continuing flow of compromises among groups, resulting in a changing, cloudy and ambiguous series of… Continue Reading
and Bush saved us from Clinton? May 14, 2006 President Bush and the GOP reveled in the self righteousness proclamation that they brought integrity back to the nation. Do Americans agree with that… Continue Reading
Oberstar’s endorsment May 13, 2006 Today the 8th Congressional District DFL endorsed Jim Oberstar at their Convention. I had been tempted to distribute a brochure with the lovely picture… Continue Reading
The Devil Made Me Do It May 11, 2006 USA Today reports that 19% of Americans think that the book and movie “Da Vinchi Code” is the work of the devil. I wonder… Continue Reading
Old News May 11, 2006 I’m writing a book online. Its not the book I had planned to write. Two others were already in the waiting. One was an… Continue Reading
Blogging away from home May 11, 2006 The worst part of blogging away from home is using the smallish keyboard on our new laptop. My big clumsy fingers punch all the… Continue Reading
Million Dollar Man May 9, 2006 The Million Dollar Man Published May 11, 2006 “Last November I had great fun writing about the dirty business which may have helped launch… Continue Reading
Will Democratic Demons sabotage Democratic Hopes? May 9, 2006 Thomas Lifson editor of “The American Thinker” writes this short piece on the anger of the Democratic Party’s “secularist fundamentalists.” Over the weekend I… Continue Reading
Life vs. Capitol Punishment May 9, 2006 As a little kid I concluded that a life sentence was far worse than capitol punishment. What was the point of living, I asked… Continue Reading
Oh say can Mark Sing? May 9, 2006 Last night’s Nightline had a segment asking whether US Congressmen who are trying to pass a law making it illegal to sing the national… Continue Reading
Somebody send me a hoot – Please May 8, 2006 Here’s another depressing story. America land of the jailed. Thank you Andrew Sullivan and Kings College. Someone send me a hoot before I kill… Continue Reading
Liberated women are the best hope of the Islamic world May 8, 2006 Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis makes the case. Continue Reading
Blood on our hands May 8, 2006 As America was winding down in Vietman and “peace” activists demanded we withdraw I was very troubled about what would happen to our South Vietnamese allies… Continue Reading
What happens when you buy a cell phone or a play station? May 8, 2006 “It starts with a ward full of women who have been gang-raped and then shot in the vagina. I am standing in a makeshift… Continue Reading
Good Long Day May 7, 2006 Late last night I worked on my Reader column. It’ll be a doozee. I sent it in an hour ago after sleeping on the… Continue Reading
Congressman Oberstar’s 1st serious GOP challenge May 7, 2006 Jim Oberstar will get his first Republican heavyweight competition ever. He’s lucky its a bad year for Republicans. Even so, I can’t imagine Jim… Continue Reading
Congressman Oberstar’s greatest achievment – 15 years later May 7, 2006 Not only was it Jim Oberstar’s brainchild to bring in the heavily state subsidized European aircraft producer Airbus to compete with America’s jet manufacturers and American labor. He… Continue Reading
Rummy Remembers – what he wants to May 6, 2006 One of George W Bush’s national intelligence briefers challenges Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld at a press conference. Continue Reading
Family Gossip May 5, 2006 I got a flurry of email yesterday concerning a proposal to set up a center for the history of World War I, named after… Continue Reading
