Recent Votes

• The Prize

  Before the excitement inevitably ebbs, it would be amusing and instructive to examine the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, and of the granting of such recognition generally.

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• A Busy Week

  At the risk of being more superficial than usual, with so much happening this week a brief review may be in order.

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• Foaming At The Mouth

  If one were looking for examples that our elected officials' intellectual development is arrested, one would find one no better than Representative Addison Graves ("Joe") Wilson, Sr., (R-SC).

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• The Associated Press Loses Its Way

  By virtue of the First Amendment, the media is the only business protected by the Constitution, and of its provisions the First Amendment is the most important because it guarantees all the others.

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• Time Wounds All Heals

  In The New York Times of Sunday, August 23, 2009, in the first section of the paper but inconspicuously buried below the fold on page 24, was a brief Associated Press story about William Calley.

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