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After reading my A House Divided blog last week, and my comments about same sex marriages, a longtime blog reader sent me an e-mail saying that she truly believes that allowing same sex marriages makes a mockery of the institution of marriage. “My parents were married for 63 years,” she wrote. “My paternal grandparents were [...]
On June 16, 1858, in a speech to delegates at the Illinois Republican State Convention, where they chose him to be their candidate for the U.S. Senate, running against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln said that "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I am reminded of Lincoln’s words every time I tune in [...]
I wasn’t the least bit surprised when the usual crowd of clueless airheads started raising hell about Sheriff Matt Lutz’s orders to shoot to kill dozens of dangerous exotic animals in Zanesville, Ohio last week, after their owner turned them loose before committing suicide. Blogs and comments on news stories are calling the sheriff’s actions [...]
Q. What goes “clip clop, clip clop, bang bang, clip clop?” A. An Amish drive by shooting. Yeah, I agree. That was a totally tasteless joke. But just go with me on this one, and you may see that it’s really not that far from the truth. A few weeks ago, we were exploring the [...]
Addressing the National Association of Broadcasters convention on May 9, 1961, Newton Norman Minow, then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to much of commercial television as a “vast wasteland.” Minow believed that broadcasters were not doing enough to serve the public interest, and was never quiet in his criticism of the industry. Understandably, [...]
Everybody is having trouble making ends meet in these tough financial times. Just ask John Fleming. The Republican congressman from Louisiana is crying the blues because he nets some $600,000 on his annual income of $6 million from his business enterprises. Fleming says that by the time he feeds his family, he only has $400,000 [...]
We’ve all seen that television commercial where somebody calls customer support and gets “Peggy,” a hairy foreigner in some Third World call center, who always answers by saying “This is Peggy.” But trust me, there are worse things than getting connected with Peggy! My wife and I were watching television last night, when I switched [...]
We are becoming a nation of wimps, and I’m afraid that someday it’s going to kill us all! If you grew up in my generation, you remember those schoolroom drills where we all got under our desks to be “saved” from an atom bomb’s blast. You may have had a friend, relative, or neighbor who [...]
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