Not one vote
TomInReston | January 28, 2009
That’s what you get, apparently, when you compromise with Republicans. Some deal.
Why not put back in the bill those things that were removed to “win” Republican votes?
Sad
TomInReston | January 27, 2009
This really is getting pretty old.
Can’t somebody stop the whining already?
Idiocy
TomInReston | January 25, 2009
OK. Put aside your pro-life/pro-choice arguments for a minute. Just a minute.
Virginia Senator Mark Obenshein (R-Harrisonburg) has introduced a bill that would require women to report a miscarriage to law enforcement authorities. Violations would be a Class I misdemeanor (punishable by up to a year in jail). Seriously:
Requires that when a fetal death occurs without [...]
So much for making friends
TomInReston | January 25, 2009
Looks like dinner didn’t work out the way you hoped.
The “L” Word
TomInReston | January 25, 2009
Every now and then, there is an op-ed worth reading.
Author Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, looks at the debasement of the word “liberal,” and while the word itself may have been marginalized, the concepts it once embodied are a part of the fabric of [...]
Thomas Jefferson:
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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