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As I’ve always held, the only good Kennedy is a dead Kennedy.

As I’ve always held, the only good Kennedy is a dead Kennedy.

We someone who can hit the ground running, not someone who needs on-the-job training.

I think we need all-around new leadership, people with vision who can communicate. Certainly, those responsible for the most brain-dead presidential campaign in recent memory need to go.

Smerconish is a recovering lawyer who has relapsed in his recovery. He lost me last year when he inexplicably took the side of that ghoul Michael Schiavo

There's a sleeper of a movie made in 1972 called 'Tomorrow' that was a precursor for Duvall's role in 'Tender Mercies'.
It's one of my all time favorites.

Not at all!

What I'm saying is that we have a duty to stand against evil in the world. When we fail in that duty we reveal in ourselves a serious deficit of character and purpose.

Not at all!

What I'm saying is that we have a duty to stand against evil in the world. When we fail in that duty we reveal in ourselves a serious deficit of character and purpose.

How can you call Intelligent Design unscientific when the science hasn't been done on it, and if the current science establishment has any say on it, won't be allowed to be done. They are fully invested intellectually, professionally, and institutionally in the Darwin dogma. The current pillars of the scientific community are more dogmatic than medieval churchmen when it comes to to the idea of Darwin being the only explanation for life on Earth.

It was the Southern Democrats who inserted 'sex' into the language of the Civil Rights Act as a ploy to make it untenable, not foreseeing the social repercussions it would unleash.

Lyndon Johnson was certainly the worst president in my lifetime if not for all time. Most of our current maladies from high medical costs (Medicare and Medicaid) to the horrific decline of our inner cities (Welfare) can be traced back to his administration. And then there's Vietnam....

One of my unfulfilled ambitions in life is to travel down to his gravesite on the Perdenales and piss on it.

You're are onto the thread of my thoughts on this: How is it that Google can be dictated by the unelected Chinese govt the terms of use and access for its people but deny a legitimate request for information from the the U.S govt? What are they really loyal to?

You're are onto the thread of my thoughts on this: How is it that Google can be dictated by the unelected Chinese govt the terms of use and access for its people but deny a legitimate request for information from the the U.S govt? What are they really loyal to?

This article makes me wonder what kind of battles are taking place right now in the CIA and intelligence community. WE probably won't know anytime soon or know who the good guys are.

"Morality always requires a leap of faith"

I would disagree with this view.

Our recent experience here in New Jersey with Gov McGreavy validates the long-standing wisdom of keeping people with these proclivities out of positions ot trust. As C.S. Lewis pointed out in his book, The Abolition of Man, morality is objectivity itself.

"Morality always requires a leap of faith"

I would disagree with this view.

Our recent experience here in New Jersey with Gov McGreavy validates the long-standing wisdom of keeping people with these proclivities out of positions ot trust. As C.S. Lewis pointed out in his book, The Abolition of Man, morality is objectivity itself.

I haven't seen any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise of a hiring surge in January.

The best summary of Jimmy Carter's accomplishments as president are in a parody published in the Weekly Standard after he won the Nobel Peace Prize last year:


The Committee celebrates James Carter as the recipient of the 2002 Alfred Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Carter has been a tireless champion of peace, democracy, and human rights. When he entered the White House in 1976, Mr. Carter faced a world torn by strife and discord. An inordinate fear of communism dominated the American mind. Mr. Carter solved that problem, and by lessening tensions, enabled the Soviet Union to slow the arms race and focus its attentions on bringing peace and democracy to the nation of Afghanistan.

During Mr. Carter’s tenure, violence threatened to consume Iran. But Mr. Carter solved that problem, allowing a peaceful revolution to sweep through Iran, heralding an era of democracy, human rights, and freedom in that ancient nation.

Mr. Carter also faced conflict in Latin America. But Mr. Carter solved that problem. His wise embrace of the Sandinista movement brought a new era of prosperity, democracy, and freedom to the Nicaraguan people. Elsewhere in Latin America, Mr. Carter’s wise stewardship solidified the rule of enlightened democratic leaders such as Manuel Noriega. Thanks to Mr. Carter’s successful approach, subsequent U.S. presidents have not had to confront unsavory leaders in that region.

But Mr. Carter’s efforts on behalf of world peace did not end with his presidency. During the administration of George H.W. Bush, Mr. Carter worked with the French government to head off operation Desert Storm. Mr. Carter brilliantly observed that Saddam Hussein represented no threat to the peaceful world order. Thanks to his efforts, the world now knows that Saddam Hussein is an indigenous freedom fighter who represents the highest aspirations of the Iraqi and Kurdish people.

Mr. Carter has also brought his magic touch to the nation of Haiti. Thanks to his efforts towards peace and reconciliation, Haiti is now a rich democracy, a model for developing nations everywhere.

Finally, Mr. Carter has prevented the nation of North Korea from ever developing nuclear weapons. Keenly perceiving that when dealing with Stalinist dictators, it is always best to take them at their word, Mr. Carter personally brokered an agreement with the North Koreans which ensures that the peninsula of Korea will forever be nuke-free. Rarely has one man brought so much peace to the world. He richly deserves this prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize Citation
Jimmy Carter, 2002

I think it was a guy named Dick Tuck who was the original political prankster who bedeviled Nixon in his 1960 campaign. It was what prompted Nixon to pursue dirty tricks during his 1972 campaign.

I agree. I think that the theory of evolution and its corrolaries of natural selection as they've been taught over the past hundred years will one day be viewed as a quaint anachronism, like the phlogiston theory of combustion, once more facts come to light.

Watching George H.W. Bush on newsclips is painful. Although I supported him, his lack of vision and conviction is more apparent now and appalling.

Watching George H.W. Bush on newsclips is painful. Although I supported him, his lack of vision and conviction is more apparent now and appalling.