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Conversations With Great Minds: Bruce Bartlett

The Republican Party Has Left Me

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Contemporary conservatism and its influence on the Republican Party was, until recently, a mystery to me. The practitioners’ bludgeoning style of politics, their self-serving manipulation of the political processes, and their policies that focus narrowly on perceived self-interest — none of this struck me as based on anything related to traditional conservatism. Rather, truth be […]

Response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where Was God?”

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[Author’s note: Originally, this was a response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where was God?” video he posted on Facebook, but since then many others—James Dobson and Newt Gingrich, for two—have voiced the same remarks, directly or indirectly blaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on our secular society. Although, it is a response to Mr. Huckabee, […]

BART Hall of Infamy

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Riding on public transportation can be quite entertaining. You never really know who will be getting on the train. My place of work is along the rapid transit train route in the San Francisco Bay Area, which allows me to partake of the colorful characters, who frequent the BART rail system. There are no “No […]

Who Is Really Un-American?

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I’ve noticed a recent trend among Obama’s opponents to further the idea that Obama is not an American. Since they have failed to prove that he was not born in American, they have resorted to putting into the minds of people that he is not an American, regardless of what his birth certificate states. How are […]

Are You Serious, Mrs. Thomas?

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I was in bed this morning and I had a WTF moment. I couldn’t believe my ears. I must have heard the news announcer wrong. No, I hadn’t. Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginny Thomas, had left a message on Anita Hill’s answering machine wanting an apology for her testimony of sexual harassment in her husband’s confirmation hearing. The audacity of […]

Just When I Thought No One Could Be Crazier Than Sarah Palin …

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… there then comes along Christine O’Donnell. What bugs me about people like Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell is not that they wear their religion on their sleeves, but that they voice their non-scientific beliefs as if they were truth and science fact as if it were false. O’Donnell, on Bill Maher’s former show “Politically Incorrect,” […]

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