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A friend of mine said today she considers her speeding tickets to be a “freedom tax” – the price she must pay to choose the speed she will drive on the open highway. It reminded me that I have been blessed with an overabundance of very cool friends. Naturally, our group chimed in and improved […]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in House Blends,National | Read More »
There was a huge hullabaloo on Saturday at the Massachusetts Republican Party caucus events. You’ll surely remember that Mitt Romney won the Massachusetts Republican primary a few weeks back. He won it in a pretty major way, too, racking up 70-plus percent of the primary votes. Well that was the beauty contest part and this […]
April 30, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,Jeff Katz,National | Read More »
“Don’t confuse me with the facts. I’ve got a closed mind.” These words were famously uttered by Rep. Earl Landgrebe (R-IN), a Nixon partisan to the bitter end, at the Watergate hearings. They are all that remain of that legislator’s political legacy. And yet, they reveal a truth. Michael Kinsley defines a gaffe as when […]
April 27, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,National,Ralph Benko | Read More »
As long as we are going to spend the next several months yelling at each other over who makes too much and who makes too little, I thought it might be helpful to talk a little bit about what people actually make and why. Let’s start with who makes the most money – according the […]
April 25, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,National,Tim Nerenz | Read More »
Mitt Romney went five for five yesterday, running the table with primary victories in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, leaving him only a few hundred delegates short of the number he needs to sew up the nomination. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he will now realistically reassess his presidential campaign. Good […]
April 25, 2012 | Posted in National | Read More »
Because he’s supported traditional marriage three times, or something. I swear you can’t make this stuff up:
April 24, 2012 | Posted in House Blends,Mark Pellin,National | Read More »
Ever wonder how a post-racial America might look? Well, keep wondering. Not only is racism a perpetual human flaw common to all races, but some people will find it when it needn’t be sought. They’ll look where it’s least expected, where no normal person would notice, where Burger King filmed a commercial with Mary J. […]
April 24, 2012 | Posted in Anthony Hager,House Guests,National | Read More »
I learned this morning that if every single person in the United States of America lost their job today and then declared that they were not looking for work, our official unemployment rate would be zero percent! I kid you not. Michigan Congressman Thad McCotter shared that little kernel with me as he was explaining […]
April 24, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,Jeff Katz,National | Read More »
Should a voter have to identify himself before being allowed to vote? It seems a simple enough idea; an idea whose purpose is to verify that the person voting is the same as the person who is registered. What is there to oppose about this? Those supporting the idea, typically more conservative in political leanings, […]
April 21, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,Lewis Guignard,National | Read More »
OK, now that Ann Romney has been savaged by the White House for breathing without permission can we quit pretending that Democrats care about women? Apparently the powers that be in the 21st century Democrat Party have determined that raising children and running a household is neither important nor difficult. Not to be compared with […]
April 19, 2012 | Posted in House Guests,National,Tim Nerenz | Read More »