by Art Smith
10 years ago, I would never have imagined myself saying the following: “Yes, I think I could make a mint renting clothes to business travelers in major cities so they don’t have to pay for checked luggage.” “I’d rather run the old...
by Art Smith
I thought this was timely, and am sharing the complete text of what Bit posted at his site. It amazes me how easily we forget these things. Bit says: This was sent to me via mail this monring, and I’ve echoed out in total: The Democrats: Democrats fought to...
by Art Smith
This month, a conference was held at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Out of this event, a consolidated (and winnowed down) list of 15 questions were created that were deemed valuable for asking the candidates for President. They were:...
by Art Smith
The Conservative Reader is exceptionally happy to read about 13 Des Moines, Iowa students from East High School who placed first in Iowa and went to Washington, DC to participate in the national finals for “We the People: The Citizen and the...
by Linda Morgan
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. Judith Klinghoffer over at The American Thinker, asks a...
by Art Smith
I am not going to argue the merits of the case or the stretched use of precedence. And it is far too easy to poke holes at the California Supreme Court. But instead I ask one single question. Does anyone not see this as a sign of the on-going decline of our society?...
by Fersboo
Ah, it’s back to one of my favorite pastimes…blogging for the Conservative Reader. Since my last installment, several interesting things have happened: Politics For whatever reason, Senator Clinton refuses to concede the nomination. Either she and Bill...
by Art Smith
Thursday morning’s Wall Street Journal featured an opinion piece from Karl Rove titled “The GOP Must Stand for Something”. The piece is well focused on the most critical battleground we face this year: Congressional seats. In the midst of watching...
by Art Smith
The Hill had a good idea… ask 97 US Senators if they’d like to be Vice President. The variety of answers was quite interesting. I was saddened and yet satisfied that Mitch McConnell said simply “No.” The two men from here in Iowa, one from...
by Billy Beck
As if the recent cyclone disaster in Myanmar wasn’t bad enough, now comes word of a 7.9 magnitute earthquake in China that has killed more than eight thousand people including many schoolchildren still buried under rubble over the weekend. This earthquake was...