…although we’ve had a president who is opposed to abortions over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down. -Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama
Read ‘em n weep, dude…

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Reuters headline 1:
Warner Music quarterly loss widens
Reuters headline 2:
Justin Timberlake, Beyonce lead MTV nominations
(one headline actually followed the other in my news feed)
My headline:
If you give us crap, you’ll get squat
Squat. Crap. The two are synonymous. Class dismissed.

I am honored by the invitation to address you on this august occasion. It’s about time. Be warned, however, that I am not here to impress you; you’ll have enough smoke blown your way today. And you can bet your tassels I’m not here to impress the faculty and administration.
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Aww listen to me
There’s an attack of badness coming on
A feeling of mean has crept on the scene
Something wicked in the air
Can you feel what’s going down
The warning signal’s loud and clear
Parasites and leaches on your trail
They’re worried that you’ve got more than them
They don’t give a damn if you make your living honest
They’re picking [...]

Townhall.com :: The media’s shabbiest moments by Brent Bozell
The year 2005 is ending as it began, with another successful election in Iraq and a liberal media still flapping around trying to find other controversies to submerge it. It does not matter to them that a Gallup poll found that 74 percent of Americans express confidence [...]

Townhall.com: Merry you-know-what by Thomas Sowell

Josef Goebbels would have been happy with much of the mainstream media in the past few weeks since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Goebbels, for those of you too young to know, was Hitler’s propaganda minister. He is credited with creating the concept of The Big Lie. The idea was that if you tell [...]

Even those on the left have a lucid thought here and there:
The fetid aroma of hindsight - Los Angeles Times
Obviously — obviously in hindsight, that is — we should have spent the money to strengthen the New Orleans levees. President Clinton should have done it. Presidents Bush the Elder and Reagan should have done it. [...]

No shame
Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, [...]

A short, but powerful piece about history, unity and what could’ve been…
Disasters, says the cliche, usually bring out the best in people. But the cliche doesn’t take into account the current generation, our current understanding of how government works, our current understanding of our place in the world or even our current understanding of right [...]