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Animals torn to pieces by lions in front of baying crowds: the spectator sport China DOESN’T want you to see You’ve got to read this to believe it. Great shades of the Roman Circus! The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. Some of the more [...]

Bad News In Aberdeen

The Aberdeen American News rings in a new legislative session with a rotten idea: subject not-for-profits to property tax or a "fee for service" for the fire and police protection they receive. Here is an idea that we have suggested...

Washington Post Blasts Democrats over Iraq

When Fred Barnes writes that the Democratic candidates "can't handle the truth about the surge", well, that's Fred Barnes. THERE'S A TRUTH THE Democratic presidential candidates can't handle: the success of the "surge" in Iraq. The addition of American troops...

Juno: Worth Seeing, And Seeing Again

I recall leaving the movie theater after seeing the fantastic Almost Famous and remarking to a friend, "I don't know what I just saw, but I know I just saw something really good." I had a similar reaction after having...

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

San Fransicko Gun Ban Shot Down

Municipalities can’t ban people from owning handguns, court rules San Francisco’s ban on handguns, blocked by a legal challenge since voters approved it in November 2005, suffered a possibly fatal blow Wednesday when a state appeals court ruled that local governments have no authority under California law to prevent people from owning pistols. The First District Court [...]

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

Pat Powers has a post on a Gordon Howie proposal that would replace 35% of Property Taxes with an additional 2% Sales Tax. Excerpt: That seems to not be much more than a shift. So would his bill also shift...

ELECTION NOTE

Yada yada yada. Choose your own talking head, and you can hear all you want (and more) about the Hawkeye Cauci, and the NH primary. What to say? Nothing CAN be said that hasn’t already been said. The Chief favors Gov. Romney, but ANY of the GOP is preferable to B. Hussein Obama, or another [...]

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Education is breaking the bank

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Pre-Debate Open Thread 1

Fred Thompson's call to arms in South Carolina

Hillary Clinton?s not-namesake passes away

South Dakota Blogs

Think You Know Barack Obama? Think Again

A challenge from Stan's employee

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

Turnaround is fair play?

Primary Reform

Much ado... Much ado...

Blognote

Push-Polling in Iowa

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

Tax Reform Coming To The Legislature

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

Government accounting fraud

Regents against gun rights and freedom

Populism versus globalism

Graves not decided

What the MSM doesn?t want you to know

Huge Turnout in New Hampshire

American Blogs