| Nov 22, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyPolitical pundits moan that video cameras on the campaign trail stifle candidates from saying much of anything, for fear a gaffe will ruin their careers. That happened to George Allen. At a campaign stop in 2006, the former Senator (R-VA) was caught on tape repeatedly...
| | Rights / DemocracyAnti-war, Can mean your doom; Feds come to, Your living room. Most likely, you’re too young to remember J. Edgar Hoover. He led the FBI in the 1940s and ’50s. Badly. He was the Establishment’s enforcer. Liberals lived in fear of appearing on his...
| Nov 15, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyTo me, the most patriotic day of the year is not the Fourth of July. It’s not Veteran’s Day. Nor is it Thanksgiving. It’s Election Day. That’s when I feel most American. I love to vote. I find it thrilling. I once wrote a column about the last...
| Nov 8, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIn the witty 1966 classic cult film King of Hearts, a British soldier shows up in a French village run by lunatics after they’d escaped from the local insane asylum as the German Army retreated. Given the number of electoral victories by crazies in the mid-term...
| | Rights / DemocracyRepublicans now find themselves in the dilemma of a car-chasing dog that finally catches one. What does he do with it? The rhetoric of the “Republican revolution” that swept the party to victory in the recent elections is long on generalities–smaller...
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