As President Obama gears up to address the nation’s school children this week, the media narrative has focused on conservatives who oppose the speech and/or plan to keep their kids from seeing it. This is predictable politics, of course. There can be little doubt that lefties would have squawked had Bush planned a similar move. [...]

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I’m sitting here watching the Republican convention, and I’m struck by the powerful endorsements just given by Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman for John McCain. I can’t help but contrast those endorsements with the tepid, self-absorbed “endorsment” that Hillary Clinton gave to Barack Obama just last week. Listening to Hillary Clinton, I tried to keep [...]

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The price of crude oil has plummeted more than $25 from its high of $147+ last month, and prices nationally and here in the Rochester area have started to come down as a result. However, the price of gas in Rochester varies widely from suburb to suburb. The D&C did a piece on this last [...]

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Barrack Obama benefited mightily in the Democratic presidential primary from his consistent stance against the war in Iraq, while Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time parsing about why she voted for the then quite unpopular and seemingly ill-fated campaign. But a funny thing happened on the way to the real election: things in Iraq [...]

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California Democratic Representative Anna Eshoo has introduced legislation to regulate the loudness of TV commercials. The bill, which I promise you is real, is called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM. Read more about it here. This is the kind of thing where you expect Ashton Kutcher to run onto the house floor [...]

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I’ll never forget a moment during the 2004 presidential debates when the topic of bilateral negotiations with North Korea came up. John Kerry said that he was for one on one talks with the North Korean regime, while Bush favored the six party talks that he has employed as promised during his administration. The moderator [...]

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I recently had a conversation with a young friend who expressed his displeasure at the lack of conservative candidates in this presidential election cycle. His feeling, shared my many on the right, is obviously that John McCain is not a “real” conservative. I’ve heard this sentiment from many conservatives in the past few months – [...]

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While Obama dances around the growing racial land mines, and Clinton ratchets up her seen and unseen efforts to paint him as unelectable, John McCain has been quietly rising in the polls. See this report at Real Clear Politics that shows him overtaking Obama in the wake of, well, let’s call it Wright-Gate. You’ll see [...]

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On September 16, 2001, I was driving through Chicago with my wife. We were on our way back from visiting family in Wisconsin for a week. Obviously, this vacation was more than marred by the events of 9-11. As we drove through a toll booth outside of the city, I was struck by what I [...]

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You don’t have to listen all that hard to hear the ridiculously transparent “McCain/Bush” references by Obama, Clinton and their surrogates in a tepid attempt to link the Republican nominee with the record of a currently unpopular president. But while Hill and the gang try to taint McCain by trying to make him responsible for [...]

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