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Posted at 11:15am on May 21, 2008 Further Evidence that Joe Lieberman Understands the World
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Senator Joe Lieberman, a tireless advocate for his causes and a statesman in the true sense of the word, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today bemoaning the path that Democrats have taken in recent years in relation to foreign policy. The entire piece is well worth a read as an analysis of recent American history and the policies that emerge from the synthesis of different world views.
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Posted at 10:55am on May 20, 2008 Seeing Isn't Believing, But It Helps
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While the big media outlets are zooming from one story to the next during their 24 hours a day, nonstop coverage of the Presidential campaign, it has largely been left to others to actually report on events. Online outfits have filled key portions of this market, with a handful of organizations exceeding all others when it comes to event coverage. A prime example of this fact is the welcome coverage of ElectionJournal.org - whose detailed reporting on the moving events of Election Day have spread considerable light on a heretofore known but largely unseen aspect of the democratic process.
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Posted at 10:11am on Mar. 11, 2008 Shocked I Say
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The most over-used word in the English language on this day?
Shocked.
Why is this? Because the liberal media types in Manhattan were shocked! to learn that their Governor, Eliot Spitzer - a Crusader against rich white men, a fighter of corruption and greed and slayer of pestilent greed - was embroiled in a tawdry sex scandal as "Client #9". As you know by now, the story is that Gov. Spitzer paid a prostitute $4300 for a tryst in Washington, D.C. and "future meetings". The ring of prostitutes was exposed by a federal investigation into the matter, which may well have caught Spitzer himself on a wiretap. After the news broke in the afternoon, the Gov. went to the podium and made some amorphous comments about regaining the trust of his family. His attractive wife stood next to him, which surely must have made the Spitzer's security detail very nervous.
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Posted at 1:00am on Jul. 31, 2007 Lose Values = Lose Elections
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Another blog post lamenting the loss of conservative values among too many Republican officeholders begins here -
The home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was raided today as federal agents pressed a corruption probe of the Senator's personal finances. Federal authorities are investigating alleged misdealings related to the remodel/expansion of the President Pro Tempore's Anchorage mansion.
Stevens is a widely noted as a big hog at the public trough in Washington, though his constituents continue to send him back to the Senate every six years despite the fact that his conservative principles seem to have been marooned some time ago.
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Posted at 12:19am on Jun. 28, 2007 The Rule of the Red Pen in a Blue State
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Here in ever Blue Connecticut, the SuperMajority Democrats in the State House and Senate recently sent a bill to the Republican Governor, M. Jodi Rell, to allow illegal immigrants to pay the in-state rate for tuition to the higher education institutions that make up Connecticut's university system (UCONN & the CSU branches).
Only the most convoluted of thinkers would see the bright clarity of logic housed in a bill that gives illegals greater standing than perfectly legal out-of-state students who wish to study in Connecticut. And yet by some strange arrangement of cosmic forces, that type of thought makes up not only a majority in the State House and the Senate, but also takes up residence in the Mayor's office of New Haven, Connecticut, where erstwhile 2006 gubernatorial candidate Mayor John DeStefano saw fit recently to grant identification cards to illegals in his city so that they can "come out of the shadows". There must be a lot of shade trees in the 'Elm City', because only the lone Republican on the Board of Alderman opposed the bill, making the vote 25-1.
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Posted at 12:37am on May 31, 2007 Fred Thompson: Redraw Your Maps
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As word came today that former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson may soon form an exploratory committee for a potential bid for the Republican Presidential nomination, the political landscape that the "Law and Order" star may face in the weeks and months ahead will be characterized by a hunger among rank-and-file Republicans for an intangible that seems to remain unfilled by the current crop of Republican contenders. And from the listeners of Mr. Thompson's recent appearance at the Connecticut Republicans' recent fundraising dinner, the big Tennessean may well have a special magic that redraws the political maps in 2008.
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Posted at 6:24pm on May 20, 2007 Process Stories: The Debates Debate
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The 2008 major party Presidential nominations race is already in full swing, though the first ballots are - at least, as of now - scheduled to be cast more than six months from now. It would be about at this point in the normal process of things - well before the campaign involves full-fledged, televised debates - that assessments of the process would be well advised. Despite the current accelerated schedule, and indeed as a result of the process as has been conducted to date, this analysis seems to be well placed at this time.
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Posted at 6:19pm on May 19, 2007 You Bring the Dog, I'll Get the Pony
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One-term Connecticut Congressman Chris Murphy is in the news this week calling for an independent, nonpartisan, citizens panel to "vet, initiate, and conduct Congressional investigations" (Muprhy Press Release 5/16/2007). Dirk Perrefort of the Danbury News-Times quoted Rep. Murphy as saying, "We have to make members of Congress accountable for their actions."
Indeed.
Mr. Murphy's inititative sounds so simple that you would think someone would have already thought of it. As it turns out of course, someone already did and they wrote it in the United State Constitution. The fine folks who came together to enshrine a new nation were about 200 years ahead of Mr. Murphy when they wrote that the people of the United States should come together every other year, whether they wanted to or not, and vote on their leaders. Murphy called the idea an independent, bipartisan panel of citizens to hold Members of Congress accountable. The Founding Fathers called them elections.
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Posted at 4:40pm on May 17, 2007 Holding Pattern
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As word comes from Washington that the Powers that Be have cut a deal on immigration, we must wait warily until the details of this agreement emerge. The early signs aren't encouraging.
The draft bill "gives a path out of the shadows and toward legal status for those who are currently here" illegally, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. She said opponents should not let "the perfect be the enemy of the good."