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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....

One brave woman

We have one brave woman who has taken extreme measures to prevent the government from taken over her children: A trial date for a homeschooling mom from Utah who fled the state when a judge threatened to take away custody...

Argus Leader: Gorilla Revealed

Huckabee Finn Tries Tom Sawyer Maneuver

Huckabee’s Nutty Flip-Flop One of the most vivid incidents in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer was the inimitable fence-painting incident (commemorated annually in Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, MO - but I digress) in which Tom managed to present the job in such a light to his passing friends that they ended up “bribing” him to do [...]

More News We Don't Want To Hear

Robert Samuelson has a must read piece from yesterday's Washington Post. Read the whole thing, but here is the gist: The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take...

Bills Before The Legislature

Bill Napoli thinks he made a mistake when pushing for legislative term limits. Now he wants them repealed. Legislators will tell you that the legislature is suffering from a lack of institutional memory and experience. Sen. Moore is almost certainly...

The New Masterpiece

A revamped Masterpiece Theater (now simply Masterpiece) debuted last night with a production of Jane Austen's Persuasion. This film represents the first installment of Masterpiece's promised "complete Jane Austen." Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the production. First, they shoved the...

The Dead Shall Rise Again

This is not one of Blanchard's zombie posts. Fox News is calling New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton, as I see Prof. Blanchard notes below. Being humble I will not point out that both Prof. Blanchard and I (see here and...

What's New with the Blogs

Graves candidacy on hold

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

A Libertarian Who Didn't Fall Under SvenPauli's Spell

Mindless racial discrimination

Hey, that sounds familiar

South Dakota Blogs

Yet Another Call For Entitlement Reform

Sibby for Senate to Serve you

Dave Barry Does the Campaign

McGovern embarrasses again

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

Another Good Night for Public Opinion Polls?

Dems Battle It Out Over Race

Ron Paul: A Bigot?

My Messiah Is A Suit From Massachusetts

Property Taxes versus Sales Taxes

One Missed Call: More J-Horror Translated

Much ado... Much ado...

Change is nearly upon us....

Ron Paul and New Hampshire

The Sacred Fire Of Liberty

Snow in Baghdad

Clinton, Obama, 08

Rounds sides with big oil and plutocracy

American Blogs