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I just talked to a senior staffer with one of the Republicans on the committee. I asked why they thought their boss didn’t go or any Republicans didn’t go. They said, “Uh, I don’t know, we didn’t pay any attention it.” Priceless.

“I guess I hoped, in the face of this much pain and suffering of Americans, the veil of partisan bickering would be sheared and we would see if there were true public servants in Washington. I found out the answer was largely ‘no’. Sad, but an inevitable realization, sort of like Santa Claus.

Comments and emails about my last post about the lack of Republican representation on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee raise concerns about my fairness: Without more info I suspect you may be a little unfair on this one, David. After all, 5 of the 7 Democrats on the committee didn’t bother to…

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee toured New Orleans yesterday to survey the damage, examine progress, and try and make things better for the still suffering people of that city. Sen. Barack Obama was highly critical of the Bush administration and so was New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin. The administration said things were…

Last week, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council responsed to President Bush’s State of the Union. Message: He wasn’t happy. He was surprised that there wasn’t any mention of the “faith, family, and freedom” issues – stem cells, abortions, values, abstinence, and marriage – that Christian political leaders like him care about so…

…when was the last time you made a paper airplane? For me it had been years. Then, today, a thought – my littlest daughter, who is currently airplane obsessed, might like one. We live fairly near an airport and whenever she is outside and hears the fading or growing roar of a plane she looks…

Kuo: Do you think that conservatives have reached the point where we’ve forgotten that there are limits to government; where they believe that government and politics can offer salvation, when of course they can’t? D’Souza: I do think there may be some people in the government, and specifically in the Bush administration, who have forgotten…

How bad has it gotten? Pat Robertson’s news site – cbn.com – has discussion boards up for people to talk about various topics. I looked at it suspecting to find one group who supported the war and the president in aboslute terms. Quite the opposite. One the discussion boards asking whether the “troop surge” should…

…in my post about Cory I wanted to make one thing clear. He wasn’t being given the answers to a standarized test – he (and the rest of his class) were given the answers to an ordinary academic midterm (actually to three of them).

…I have received a number of emails requesting that I either shut down the comments part of this blog or block some comments because they distract from the broader discussion. I’ve thought about it a lot and for now have decided to keep things as they are recognizing that some people want to use the…
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