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You all know the story. A shepherd boy gets bored with his duties and craves something more exciting than watching a herd of sheep graze, so he cries “Wolf!” and the townspeople come running. That ruse worked so well that he tries it again and again and again, each time bringing the townspeople to his [...]

Decorum indeed! “You lie!”

Maybe Santyana looked into the past to predict the future. Maybe he read that
. . . in the twenty-nice years since the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Americans had already risen in revolt three times, and on each occasion over taxation (A Darn Good History of the United States, 161).
Maybe Congress and the President should [...]

Hey, I’m running to Kmart to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize. Want me to pick one up for you?

What I want to know is whether those who say this is racist also say the makers of the blue Obama poster are Communist.

During his 19 years as “America’s Anchorman,” Walter Cronkite ended each of his newscasts on CBS with his trademark, “And that’s the way it is.” We’ve all grown up a bit since then, and what with cable, the Internet, and the blogosphere, we can listen to a lot of alternative voices. For anyone listening, those [...]

Katie Granju doesn’t believe, neither do I. Either Axelrod or Barack is lying. Maybe a few more–many more?–should say what they’re thinking because this doesn’t pass the smell test.

When President Clinton pardoned “billionaire fugitive” Marc Rich, there was no accompanying video of the sort Sarah Palin’s critics are laughing at as I write this post. But imagine if you can, what that video would look like. Picture Clinton standing in front of a large movie screen as he grants the pardon. On the [...]

As I wrote the other day, Obama is my President. I will not call him Hitler. I will not call him stupid. I will not say he is a fascist. And I will hope and pray for him to do his best for us. That said, I will express my concerns here and again. And [...]

I did not vote for him, and I’m troubled that he comes to the task with so little experience and so many views that I oppose; however, on January 20, 2009, he will become my president, and I will support him. That support will take the form of kudos when he does right, criticism when [...]