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Entries from December 2006

George F. Will - A Retreat on Rationing Free Speech? - washingtonpost.com

December 31st, 2006 · No Comments · politics

I read George Will’s column last evening and couldn’t wrap my mind around his argument. I revisited it this morning and find his bait and switch tactics perverse.
A three-judge federal court recently tugged a thread that may begin the unraveling of the fabric of murky laws and regulations that traduce the First Amendment by suppressing political speech. [...]

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RIP - Political Respect

December 31st, 2006 · No Comments · politics

Even in a holiday season, politics requires that politicians put in an appearance. Presidential funerals don’t happen often, when they do, you go. Nothing shows the depth of a man like the way he shows respect to those who went before him. And a show of respect that requires nothing more from you than a [...]

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Robert D. Novak - Losing to the Greens - washingtonpost.com

December 25th, 2006 · No Comments · politics

 From the parallel universe of Robert Novak. “Environmentalists’ well-financed propaganda operation”…Does the man live in this universe? Industry has been spending many times the amounts the environmentalists have but the truth is still coming thru their lies and distortions. Industry has controlled the conversation for 12 years in congress and now that their lapdogs have [...]

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Charles Krauthammer - In Baker’s Blunder, A Chance For Bush - washingtonpost.com

December 15th, 2006 · No Comments · politics

 Isn’t this just so like the American cliche that the rest of the world sees…We don’t like the results of this messy thing called democracy so lets change the government that resulted. Isn’t Bush just repudiating his own policy by not working with the elected government he says he went to war to see in [...]

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