Category: Blog

I’m Cold, Uninformed and Void of Compassion… And Unrepentant

A dissent to my July 18 blog entry about the Washington Post's coverage of a murder-suicide case in which a mother killed her toddler son: Dear Ms. Ridenour, On reading your reaction to the suicide of Reetika Vazirani, I wonder ...

C-SPAN to Broadcast Reparations Speech

A note David Almasi asked me to pass along: A speech by Project 21 National Advisory Council member and nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock on the topic of slave reparations is scheduled to be broadcast by C-Span 1 on Saturday, ...

Drugs Again

Good article on CNSNews.com on the opinions of Merrill Matthews (Institute for Policy Innovation) and Bob Moffit (Heritage Foundation) on the Medicare/prescription drug price debates. Meanwhile, their main page has a poll: Do you think prescription drug re-importation poses a ...

Mailbag Regarding Buffalo Soldiers

Mail about Project 21's protest of the name of the Film "Buffalo Soldiers": To whom it may concern, I just read Michael King's comments on Townhall.org about the Congressional Black Caucus' silence regarding the film "Buffalo Soldiers.” I could not ...

Quagmire II

Ed Haislmaier got a good chuckle out of this satire, "Left Coast Quagmire," from the August 1 James Taranto Best of the Web. I did, too ...

$100 of My Personal Money to the First to Show the Post is Right on This Item, And I’m Wrong

From the Washington Post, page one, August 1: "...a study of more than 16,000 people from every inhabited continent found that men everywhere -- whether single, married or gay -- want more sexual partners than women do." $100 to the ...

We Know Environmentalists Don’t Like Drivers Much, But This is Ridiculous

According to the Consumer Electronics Industry Association, 59 percent of all people who listen to the radio are in a vehicle. Ponder that fact when you consider the opening line of the Nature Conservancy's new radio commercial: Close your eyes ...

Quagmire

A note for the blog from hubby, David: One hundred forty-eight of America's best died in the line of duty -- killed in shoot-outs, accidents or in peace-keeping operations. Some could call it a quagmire, an unwinnable war, for which ...

What’s Good for the Goose

The GOPUSA.com website today has a story about former Senator James Abourezk (D-SD) suing a 20-year-old website operator for calling Abourezk a traitor. The story gets amusing when it recounts that Abourezk himself has used the term loosely: for example, ...

Buffalo Soldiers

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An interesting letter in response to Project 21's complaints that Disney/Miramax (strangely) chose the nickname of widely-admired black military units for its new movie about military misfits. Hello, Mr. Almasi, My wife and I saw this film last night and ...

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