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Not sure if this is a good way to handle this, but it does send a point to the Cultural Marxists: A school district following Maine's Human Rights Law and providing special accommodations to a 10-year-old with "sexual orientation or...

Iowa Interpreted 2

How you read the results in Iowa depends a lot on how you read the New Hampshire primary and other contests, in advance. See Fred Barnes: Let's start with Obama. Pre-Iowa, polls showed him trailing Clinton in New Hampshire. He's...

New Hampshire GOP withdraws support

I have previously posted on Fox News not inviting Ron Paul to its New Hampshire Forum. Now the New Hampshire GOP withdraws its support: Following a week of controversy over Fox News' decision to exclude Rep. Ron Paul from a...

Laptops, REED, and highways

Bob Mercer has a report in today?s Mitchell Daily Republic that shows the expensive laptop program of Governor Rounds is not improving school performance. And as Rounds propose to spend millions more in Higher Ed?s Internet (that the general public...

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

The Denver Post joins Ken Blanchard, USA Today, and South Dakota party officials in advocating regional primaries. Excerpt: Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1988, describes the current system as "nuts." Few Americans living outside...

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

Political Poetry

Want to know why Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee are doing so well? Peter Schramm thinks he has an answer. Fred Thompson?s comment "We just got our ticket to the next dance," reminds to say a brief word on the...

Santayana And History

Faithful reader Gary writes in to offer a mild correction to this post of mine on Churchill and the study of history. I?ve just read your post for December 19th on Winston Churchill and I feel I must digress and...

What's New with the Blogs

Romney promotes secular humanism

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Fiskie/Fallaci Finals Now Open

We'll know that Huckabee has truly arrived

Impeachment Watch: George McGovern, ACLU-Florida, and Viggo Mortensen bang the BDS drum

South Dakota Blogs

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Pro-family goes to Huckabee and Paul

Primary Reform

SanFran Nan: ?I?ll be good?later.?

The Case For Thompson

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

Iowa

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Much ado... Much ado...

Bloomberg For President?

A Bhutto Successor

TAR Camp is almost here.... Are you signed up?

Happy New Year!

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Current politics has gone astray

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Change is coming....

Peggy Noonan on Huckabee's Victory

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