And Now For Something Completely Different: An Act of Real Sportsmanship
Here’s something you don’t see often these days. An act of real sportsmanship!!!
The Baghdad Boogie: Time to Play Another Tune
We have heard that the reduction in violence in
What Barak Really Meant: Gotcha Politics Again
A standard ploy in politics today is to search your opponents words, excerpt just the ones that make the speaker look stupid, indecisive, prejudiced or just silly, then repeat those words over and over until they seem to be exactly what the person intended to say. The strategy even has a name, according to Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. They call it "Contextomy." It means taking a person comments out of context and thereby giving them a new (often opposite or derogatory to the speaker) meaning. In the 2004 presidential campaign, John Ke
Eulogy for the Clinton Campaign
I do not think that Hillary Clinton will get the Democratic nomination this year. As it stands now, the numbers are too much against her. But, I do think she has the stuff to have made a good president. She is smart, she is tenacious, she is tough, and she is a fighter. What more would we want in our president?
Marketing Candidates: Playing The Race/Gender/Maverick Card
Throughout this presidential campaign, people have offered criticism of the major candidates based on stereotypes. Barak Obama has been accused of “playing the race card" (pardon the overworked cliché). Hillary Clinton was called the iron maiden and seen as too cold and calculating. John McCain’s campaign almost miscarried because he was seen as George Bush’s third term.
Does a Parent Have the Right to Homschool Children, Regardless of their Ability to Do So?
Recently, California courts have ruled that perents may not homeschool their children unless they are certified as teachers or hire someone who is certified. Some of my Libertarian friends have argued that this is an outrageous interference into parental prerogatives. At first I agreed, then I thought a bit more about it.
An Honorable Action by a Politician!!!
A couple of days ago, at a political gathering, we saw something that we don’t often see in politics. We saw a politician behave ethically.
Knight to Sampson: Trash to Trash
The list of Kelvin Sampson's NCAA rules infractions will be published by Indiana University tomorrow. It will show that he violated NCAA recruiting rules hundreds of times since coming to Indiana University. Indiana went from one coach that embarrassed the university to another one. If you replace one sleaze ball with another sleaze ball, you should not expect much improvement. Sampson came to I.U. under a cloud of NCAA violations. He promised to be good. He did not do it.
Republican Debate
Did you watch the Republican debate last evening (1/30)? The candidates mentioned Ronald Reagan at least 40 times in their statements. Reagan too office almost 30 years ago. Don't they have any new ideas at all? George W. Bush was hardly mentioned at all. Is George W. irrelevant? It is difficult for me to believe, but I think the leading Republican candidated want to go back to the Reagan days.
Iraqi Accord? Not Yet.
At her recent visit to
