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It appears that my rss feeds and daily subscription email deliveries have been down for the last day or so. As best I can tell, my Friday posting was the main culprit. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you’ve missed the the articles titled...What Does It Mean To Suffer?
What is Suffering? The most traumatic place I’ve yet visited on this Earth is Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was there with some friends in 2005. I know I’ve talked about it before. The awful things that were done to people during that war. The humiliation. The...Doing My Part
Last week I started taking my bicycle to work. It’s about 7.5 miles as the crow flies, and my shortest (and most difficult) route is about 8.5 miles… the longest (and easiest) route is 13 miles. Downtown Des Moines is at a slightly lower elevation than...Swamp Stomper Alert: Fairness Doctrine not just for talk radio
About BitHead BitHead runs BitsBlog and is an occasional guest writer for The Conservative Reader. You can email BitHead at [email protected]. This special Swamp Stomper Article is cross-posted from BitsBlog. From the Business and Media institute: There’s a huge...Jim Leach Shows His True Colors
30 years Jim Leach represented Iowa’s 1st/2nd US House District in Congress. Considered a “moderate” Republican, this week he helps us see that he was really a liberal Republican. Now we find out. So the current Director of Harvard University...McCain, Georgia, and the Economy
There seems to be a ton of news lately, and for a change, not all of it bad. First, we have the Beijing Olympiad and the Chinese display of cultural prowess. Fortunately for us, we have the best athletes in the world. But in case you haven’t noticed, the...Oil Prices Went… You Guessed It…
Down! Not alot, but it dropped another $.75 today to $114.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, the Republican Protest against the Democratic No-Vote Vacation continued into its second full week, with activity at Capital Hill and at town halls throughout the country. House...Newspaper Web Sites and Anonymous Comments
Des Moines Register columnist Rekha Basu wrote an interesting piece for today’s paper on the foibles of unrestrained and anonymous commenting on newspaper web sites, such as that hosted by the Des Moines Register. It was a very informative piece and I think can...What A Week: Party Unity
On the Republican side, the increase in McCain’s position in the polls, slow as it is in coming, is a reflection of the unity that is starting to build within the Republican Party. I think what you’re really seeing is that as the various state conventions...Stay in Touch
