by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
04.18.08 | 10:20AM
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Global-warming alarmists have done a lot of goofy things. From foisting pricey poisonous light bulbs on the public to bestowing bushels of love-you awards on High Priest AlGore. But, now, global fear-mongering Time magazine has crossed an unacceptable line. This is its cover picture for the month of April (in case you missed it, or don't have children in school),...
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by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
04.02.08 | 5:30PM
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Since the last one closed, here is the new OT thread. We have an opening salvo asking what people think of the "John Adams" series. I am looking forward to watching what I have DVR'd, but have not seen any yet. Would anyone like to recommend it? Diss it? Talk about anything else?... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.20.08 | 5:44PM
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That seems to be what John Dingell (D-MI) thinks, when it comes to gas prices. While the rest of us are already driving less and exchanging cars to get better gas mileage, Dingell has looked upon our suffering and decided it's a good thing.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.14.08 | 6:35PM
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According to an essay he has authored on the Huffington Post, Barack Obama does not agree with the incendiary comments his pastor of 20 years made that have been racing across cyberspace and the alternative media: Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy. I... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.13.08 | 12:23PM
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Just after I directed someone to take an off-topic discussion to the off-topic post, I found that it had closed. So, here's another one. A63, wanna talk about the war and the recession that doesn't exist? Here's some fodder for the fire. No recession. I know that disappoints you.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.12.08 | 3:04PM
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This is technically a news story, but since I have a VERY strong opinion on it, I'm pushing it over here on the right side of the aisle. After watching the Governor of New York humiliate his wife and apologize for what one might call "unspoken sins" yesterday, today we got to watch him hold yet another late press conference,... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.10.08 | 7:22AM
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And Michigan, for that matter? For those who haven't kept up on the latest shenanigans of the Democrat party, here's a quick review.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
03.09.08 | 3:55PM
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Well, we've been expecting this in the wider Christian world, even if the homeschoolers of California "never saw the case coming." A California appeals court has ruled that the state of California has the right to require parents to school their children in a public or private school or to have "credentialed tutors" at home.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
02.25.08 | 3:18PM
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This is really neither news nor opinion, but those are your choices, so I picked opinion, since that's where we usually go anyway. This is a topic for all of you who find the topics we have here too limiting and feel the need to go completely off-topic. Now, I'm not talking about the 300+ post that went on about... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
02.18.08 | 5:34PM
Opinion | 29 Comments | Track
The last few weeks have not done much for the reputation of the American college campus for safety, security, or sanity. Witness:... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
02.18.08 | 10:30AM
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A friend of mine used to always call the Democratic party the "Democrat" party, because--he said--"There's nothing democratic about the Democrat party." He just might have been right.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
02.08.08 | 10:34AM
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As Senator John McCain inevitably marches on to cement the Republican nomination, he is cheered by his adoring followers--but there are others in the crowd who are neither adoring nor followers. They are, instead, conservatives. And they are not planning to go gentle into that good night, to steal a poetic notion from Dylan Thomas.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
01.22.08 | 3:18PM
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Today Fred Thompson withdrew his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination. Having rushed to be with his ailing mother after his third-place finish in the South Carolina primary, the former's Senator's absence from campaigning in Florida--and his apparent intention not to participate in the debate on Thursday night--had been duly noted by the media.... :: more ::
by Steve Bowers, Senior Editor
01.21.08 | 10:58PM
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For awhile now, the campaign of Monica Lewinsky's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife has been sending him out as a sort of attack-pit-Chihuahua whose sights have been trained on Barack Obama as of late. It seems that the target of Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's vitriol has just recently discovered something most of us have known for damn near sixteen years now: Slick Willie is... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
01.09.08 | 12:50AM
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Since the primary season has started, I thought it might be helpful to explain how the process actually works, because it's not nearly as simple as you'd like it to be. In fact, it might be even more complex that you thought it was. To begin with, this year there is a rather large possibility that the later states will... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
01.05.08 | 12:04PM
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I couldn't help but notice on January 3 that the mainstream media (now including Fox New Channel) couldn't find a way to say the words "Fred Thompson," despite the fact that he finished the night in the same position as Hillary Clinton, and bested John McCain, about whom they could not shut up.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
01.01.08 | 7:10PM
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Here's some good news to start your New Year with. The President may be sliding in the polls (though not as bad as once he was, and still with a better approval rating than Congress), but he is firmly set in the cement of his principles. President Bush will not be "paying his respects" to Yasser Afafat when he visits... :: more ::
by Steve Bowers, Senior Editor
12.24.07 | 8:14AM
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After enduring the presidency of "what the meaning of the word "is" is" do we really want the presidency of "what the meaning of the word "saw" was"? We already had the era of Slick Willie. Is it really necessary to advance the prospects of ushering in the era of Slick Romney?... :: more ::
by Steve Bowers, Senior Editor
12.19.07 | 4:58AM
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After cruising along at 2-3 percent for years, inflation took the predicable big jump last month due largely, of course, to the impact of energy prices on consumer goods. Who do we have to thank for this? Democrats, of course. :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
12.17.07 | 10:37AM
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For quite a few years now, it's been popular for independents and restive moderates of both parties to complain that there's not "a dime's worth of difference" between the Democrats and the Republicans (the phrase itself coined long ago by George Wallace, in his restive racist period.) But, this election season, there seems to have been a good deal of... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
12.11.07 | 5:04PM
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Last week, Mitt Romney delivered "the" long-awaited speech on religion. Not his religion, you understand. Just religion. In America. In general. Very, very general.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
11.26.07 | 7:11AM
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Lending credence to the idea that the environmental movement is stocked with the spiritually naive and the clinically insane, word comes today of two British women who long ago made the decision to "save the planet" by resisting the urge to mother. According to this article in the Daily Mail, Toni Vernelli and Sarah Irving, ten years apart and unknown... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
11.15.07 | 12:22PM
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The writers are on strike. Did you know? Despite American's much-vaunted love for television, no one seems to have noticed that the Writer's Guild of America has been on strike since November 1. A recent poll shows that only 6% of those surveyed feel it has made a "big impact" on them, while fifty-nine percent say it has had "no"... :: more ::
by Steve Bowers, Senior Editor
11.14.07 | 10:53PM
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After flopping around more than a fish out of water, The Missus has New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to thank for deciding what her position will be on giving illegal aliens driver's licenses.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
11.13.07 | 6:05PM
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Maybe. We'll see. Evidently, the Iranian claim to have "no" homosexuals in it is tossed off the same way a tenement landlord claims to have "no" roaches in the place. As soon as they find, them, they kill them.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
11.12.07 | 12:52PM
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On his radio show this morning, Dennis Miller made a suggestion he has mentioned before, but it has a special poignancy today, the day on which the government recognizes Veteran's Day (which was actually on Sunday.) Miller believes that veterans should be exempted from income tax for the rest of their lives. And he's right.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
11.01.07 | 10:01AM
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Production on Dog the Bounty Hunter on the Arts and Entertainment Network has been temporarily suspended, while the network investigates its star's most recent notorious act.... :: more ::
by Kerry Jacoby, Contributing Writer
10.23.07 | 7:59PM
Opinion | 62 Comments | Track
Since I happened to run across an actual readable, written plan for something important by a candidate for the presidency, I thought it might be something to discuss on this blog. You can find Fred Thompson's recently announced Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan here. Take a look and come back to talk. Is it what you want to see?... :: more ::
