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The Golden Globes award show is reportedly being canceled due to the writers' strike. Could this happen to the Academy Awards? I dare not even dream something so delicious.

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...

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...

Pander Bear

I also wrote yesterday that the American people say they want a candidate that won't pander to them like Santa Claus, yet that is often whom we end up supporting. Little did I know that there was a Hillary Clinton...

Romney promotes secular humanism

Most would say that Mitt Romney?s religious views are Mormon, but Joseph Farah makes the argument that Romney is more secular humanist than Mormon based on his answer to a Tim Russert question: Asked by the host for clarification on...

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

On this day of the New Hampshire primary The New Republic publishes a piece describing comments on race that appeared in various iterations of a newsletter put out under Ron Paul's name. Pajamas Media helpfully lists the most explosive quotations....

Blognote

Blogging has been off lately - yeah, of course, the holidays, right? That hasn’t been too bad…but the touch of pneumonia has been another story. Things are on the upswing…and hopefully will continue to be so.

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

What's New with the Blogs

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Ron Paul Supporters Unusually Quiet

Reading John McCain, part 2

McCain, Romney, and the pro-life, Catholic vote in Michigan

South Dakota Blogs

New Blog Added

SD Regents go anti-gun

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Primary Reform

Why should we be surprised?

Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Things Fall Apart for Ms. Clinton

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

Vehle running for Senate

Juno: The Best Movie in Years

Intel Report Status

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

I Admit That Ioway I Owe A Lot To You

Should this bother us? RC Council votes to give Cabela's a carrot. A really, really expensive carrot.

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

Anti-Corporation, Anti-Big Government

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

American Blogs