I think FR makes a mistake in discouraging “vanities”. We have some excellent writers here and I’d just as soon be reading and discussing their op-eds as the LSM tripe we are presented.
Free the writers!
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Did you just hear what Geraldo said?
Did you just hear what Olbermann said?
Did you just hear what Matthews said?
Did you just hear what Rosie said?
My cat has this hairball that she can't seem to be able to......
It'll be a hoot!
I think anybody can post political commentary as a blog entry over in the bloggers and personal section.
My vanity was a complaint about the increasing use of the term “I’d Hit It”. I put it over in the smoky backroom.
I write an opinion column for the local paper, and since it is published, I post it here when it’s about national politics as an “editorial”.
I usually enjoy the vanities I read, but I see the reason for discouraging them if everybody thought their opinion was important in an of itself every day, we’d be swamped by threads and couldn’t find the commentary about media stories that are the talk of the nation.
Frankly, while I understand the purpose of this site is conservative activism, my use is more to keep up on the news, and have a place to discuss the news and what it means (and what the real facts are) with a lot of other smart conservatives. A lot of times I change my opinion about a story after reading good arguments here.
And when the stories are completely political, there are some really interesting applications of conservative thought to specific cases, some of which surprise me.