Among the pieces of advice for somone who wants to know if a real conservative and a real liberal can be friends:
Among the pieces of advice for somone who wants to know if a real conservative and a real liberal can be friends:
Have you been getting feweer Christmas cards each year? It's a trend I've certainly noticed:
I was beginning to think PETA was on break since they've been so quiet this holiday season. Silly me:
Last week I tried to make the point that PolitiFact was wrong to label as lies what are really useful phrases of political shorthand to signal passionately held differences of opinion:
With the probability that the "Arab spring" will result in militant Islamic fundamentalism controlling all of the Mideast, we should pay attention to controversies such as this one:
TEHRAN — In the Islamic republic of Iran, the law requires women to cover their hair and bodies in public. But how to do so remains up to them, and the result is persistent confusion in the streets.
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Americans have a more balanced view of taxing and spending than some politicians are willing to give them credit for:
Good grief. A poor doggie dragged back from vacation just for a photo op?
Bo Obama was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President Obama's side Wednesday shopping for treats at PetSmart
Poor Colts. Not only can't they win when they're supposed to. They can't even lose when they should:
A Vermont man has been apprehended on criminal charges after his failure to spell correctly gave him away to police.
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (who recently resigned in disgrace) was one of the Republicans who campaigned to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to define marriage as the the union between a man and a woman. Then she was found to be in "an inappropriate relationship" with someone other than her husband. That resulted in this "apology"from "the gay and lesbian community of Minnesota":
A positive appraisal of 2011:
In the time since the end of the Cold War, there have been many years in which advocates of freedom and democracy found endless reasons for gloom and few for hope. This was not one of those years.
Circuit Judge Marianne Vorhees has rejected a legal challenge by Delaware County bar and tavern owners, who contended the ban on public smoking in the county had hurt their business. That's not that surprising or interesting -- as this Muncie Star Press editorial notes, there have been similar rulings outside Indiana. But her ruling contained some words of wisdom every politician and public official in the state should read.
Ah, who doesn't have fond memories of partying on the bar circuit till 2 a.m., then topping off the night at a greasy spoon for burgers and fries before stumbling home to get sick and wake up with a hangover? Now, we can do it all in just one place!
The White Castle hamburger chain is sipping on the idea of selling alcoholic beverages at its restaurants.
Christmas may be a time of indulging for many, but health experts believe it is the perfect time to tell a loved one they are overweight.
Honestly, isn't this one of the strangest opening sentences to a news story you've ever read?
A federal grand jury in Ohio returned a
seven-count indictment on Tuesday charging 12 members of an
Amish splinter group with hate crimes following a spate of
beard cutting attacks on fellow Amish in the state.
And strangely, for a car no one wants to have:
Those who contend that Republicans can always find a way to screw up a sure thing certainly got evidence of it this week. As the Wall Street Journal put it:
Can't we all just get along? No, but I'll think much better of you when you're gone:
Hugs, laughter and a few tears closed the year for City Council on Tuesday as three members bade farewell to their colleagues.
Three-term Councilman Tim Pape, D-5th; one-term Councilwoman Liz Brown, R-at large; and one-term Councilwoman Karen Goldner, D-2nd, cast their final votes as council wrapped up its year-end business.
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I use to get a kick out of Sen. William Proxmire's Golden Fleece awards for creative wasting of taxpayer money. It looks as if Sen. Tom Coburn is trying to fill that niche with his "Wastebook 2011" report highlighting over $6.5 billion in examples of "some of the most egregious ways your tax dollars were wasted."
Examples of wasteful spending highlighted in “Wastebook 2011” include:
Politifact.com, the so-called truth detector run by the St. Petersburg Times, is catching a lot of grief from certain liberal quarters for its selection of the No. 1 political falsehood of the year: That Republicans, in supporting Rep.
