Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Liberals use The Thee Stooges as a model for dialogue and debate?
Some liberals have taken to assaulting conservatives, particularly those bold enough to speak on college campuses, with everything from pies to salad dressing. They obviously don’t have the slightest idea of what this says about them and their credibility. First, it demonstrates their utter...
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Monday, April 11, 2005
The Politics of Negativity
Just look at these paragraphs from the Boston Globe of April 11 th: Senior Democrats are increasingly confident that they have blocked Republicans plans for historic breakthroughs in legislation under GOP control of the White House and Congress, declaring that the Democratic strategy of unified...
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Sunday, April 10, 2005
Your tax dollars at work
Parade magazine, that great purveyor of political wisdom and insight that comes in many Sunday newspapers, ran an article in this week's edition decrying how our tax monies are spent. The article features a prominent sidebar, A Look at Priorities. Citing such examples as business versus safety,...
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Friday, April 8, 2005
Democrat Campaign Strategy to Portray Republicans as Corrupt
Much has been written about the ethics charges against Senator Tom DeLay. He’s a Republican, the “thinking” seems to go, so they must be true. Has anyone ever bothered to consider why he’s being singled out for this? I don’t mean merely the usual media fixation on alleged Republican malfeasance to...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Sure-fire way to reduce college tuitions - soak the taxpayers!
College and university tuitions in Ohio, and most certainly elsewhere, are escalating at 10% or more a year. Tuition caps have been bandied about, to no avail. Well, leave it to the learned president of the University of Toledo to come up with the perfect way to reduce tuitions - an 0.5% increase in...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Red ink is politically incorrect for grading elementary school papers?
Perhaps some teachers out there would be so kind as to comment on this. AP headline: "Teachers say red ink doesn't make grade for marking papers" Parents of kids at Daniels Farm Elementary School in Turnbull, Connecticut objected to seeing their children's papers marked up in red. "Red writing, they...
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Monday, April 4, 2005
A brief reflection on the passing of Pope John Paul II
We have lost a truly great human being in the passing of Pope John Paul II. Not great because of one conviction or another, one idea or principle ot another, but rather great because of the integrity and moral strength that underlay them. Just as we do with God Himself, we are prone to claim the...
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Saturday, April 2, 2005
An archivist looks at the Sandy Berger affair
As an archivist, I have been appalled at the case of Sandy Berger and his theft and destruction of records from the National Archives. First, I am appalled at the actions of the man himself. He stuffed classified documents from the collections of the Archives into his pants like a bum lining his...
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Friday, April 1, 2005
Is it wrong to criticize judges, or not?
I went off on this over on my Bush is an Idiot? blog, but there are still some things that need to be discussed on this, just not from the satirical tone of that blog. How is it that the liberals who so bemoan the alleged loss of their own freedom of speech are now so eager to stifle critcism of the...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
The Schiavo case: Conflicts of interest and judicial unaccountability
There are many aspects of the Schiavo case that have escaped the scrutiny of a mainstream media bent on selling the legitimacy of an innocent woman's murder by court order. More to the point, they were starved by neglect as she was. One of the more intriguing issues is that of conflicts of interest....
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