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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

Yesterday I noted Robert Samuelson laying out some harsh but needed truths: entitlement programs, especially Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, are growing at an alarming rate and will soon come to push aside other necessary spending. These programs represent an...

Did I mention I liked Fred Thompson?

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

And he does it better than I am prepared to. From the Seattle Times: There are many unanswered questions about the races in both parties. On the Democratic side: Is Barack Obama for real? Or is he, as sources inside...

Global Warming Gives Me the Shivers

My favorite website is Arts & Letters Daily, a very literate Readers Digest for the web. It's my homepage on my home computer. Now they have created a second website dedicated to the global warming issue called Climate Debate Daily....

Things are going well.....

There's A Tear In My Beer

Mitt, I was kidding. From NRO. In his first state campaign stop in Grand Rapids, a voter fondly recalled his father, George, former Michigan governor and CEO of AMC. ?He was a great man and I miss him dearly,? said...

Impeachment 2: A Reply to Professor Schaff

My SDP colleague, Professor Schaff, has a reply to my post on George McGovern and his call for the impeachment of President Bush. I think in fact that we are largely in agreement on the matter, but I try to...

Fraudulent Numbers on Iraqi Deaths

The Lancet is a very well-respected medical journal, based in Britain. In 2006, three weeks before the American election, Lancet published a report on "excess mortality" in Iraq. The report put forth numbers of civilian Iraqi deaths directly due to...

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Sibby for Senate to Serve you

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Monday Afternoon Linkfest

A letter to the editor of the Times

Where in the world

South Dakota Blogs

What's the talk in DC today? I hear it's this article...

Change is nearly upon us....

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

Possible ChiCom Olympic Spectacle?

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Sorry for the light posting today... In the meantime, more on the immigration issue.

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

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

No politics in this post...

ELECTION NOTE

NYT: Returning Troops are Murderers

Soros Funded Lancet "Study"

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

Glowbull Warming Notes

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Headlines Worth Noting

SDP Jazz Note: (Mostly) Contemporary Jazz

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