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A sky-rocketing homicide rate ,  a sewer of corruption  that stands as an inspiration to grafters and mob guys everywhere, a state government trying hard to follow suite,  deteriorating city services  and  a failing school system.
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Yes!
One of the most stressful cities in the entire [...]

Contrary to “pundit wisdom” and media hype, America is not really aching for a leftwards turn.

The Republican Party suffers from a pervasive and inexplicable failure to identify some key points of distinction between themselves and their Democratic opponents on issues that speak clearly and forcefully to the public consciousness - and [...]

Yesterday our web master and I were discussing compassionate conservatism, which I insist and always have insisted, is just playing into liberal hands. Compassionate conservatism we have since learned is big government conservatism (which I could have told you back on 00 when I didn’t vote for W. in the primaries.) A [...]

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has determined that the leading cap-and-trade scheme, the Lieberman-Warner Secure Climate Act, would include a huge tax hike, raising federal revenues an astonishing $1.2 trillion over the next ten years.
The two remaining Democrats and the Republican nominee-to-be are all in agreement. The tag of global climate change is [...]

This week my European-Mexican friend sent to me Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a bootleg copy. I ask several other friends which was worse: bootlegging or wasting a good DVD?
Two of my friends from Townhall replied,rwwood:”The main thing is to avoid lining Algore’s pockets with a legit sale of the DVD.”laur: “tough call, [...]

A California judge has decided there is “no constitutional right to homeschool.”  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeschool6mar06,0,7343621.story
 Hmm, just off the top of my head what about the right to Freedom of Speech, Free Exercise of Religion and Right to Assemble.  That all sounds like homeschooling to me.  We can kill our children before they are born according to the [...]

     Now with the holy days mainly behind us, we need to return to worldly matters. It came to my attention of a new idea (old if you consider governing-czars for various fashionable-projects are ageless.) Carolyn Raffensperger who is the executive director of something called the Science and Environmental Health Network wants the next president to [...]

Not since the extermination of the Smurfs or the brutal murder of Xenia the Warrior Princess by testosterone-poisoned male FAR RIGHT WING Japanese-identified militarists/nationalists “warriors” - i.e. “Samurai” - has there been a being-rights crisis of this magnitude.
Full Article @
http://red-state-blue.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/12/red_state_bluer.html#more

The decision to opt for a system by which the government paid for providers chosen by patients directly, pushed a ready and deep supply of money into the medical market and did so suddenly. It also made it so that a large population - the  disabled, elderly and  working poor - [...]

    State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) shall help insurance companies as it help them back in nineteen sixty-five. Forty-two years ago, the senior citizens (65 & older) were dumped from the private insurance rolls into the hands of governmental care; now, with the help of the Democrats, children (”25?” & younger) may be joining their [...]