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Monica Smith

That “signing statement” cited as un-constitutional has some validity, IMHO, because the Constitution outlines a “permissive” system in which the various branches are permitted and/or mandated to carry out specific functions--nothing more or less. So, the Congressional habit in recent decades of trying to prohibit behaviors, either on the part of the executive or the judicial branches (or individuals) is un-constitutional. If the Congress doesn’t want the President engaging our military in conflicts, it should rescind the AUMF.
David Evans

Once again on the writing craft. This time from E.L.Doctorow, about his writing routine: “Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it’s time to have a drink.”--courtesy The Writer’s Almanac
Will Cantrell

Would somebody please tell Mitt to stop wearing blue jeans? Just stop it. Now! Presidential candidates must think that by wearing denim, they will either (1) identify with the general populous or (2) gin up their populist appeal. Maybe that works for some candidates, though for the life of me I can’t remember who it might have been. The look doesn’t work for Mitt, however. I believe that Mitt is a populist or identifies with the middle class (and the formerly so) as much as I believe that J-Lo is “…still Jenny from the block.” Stop it!
Ron Taylor

Wonder which Republican presidential candidate is looking forward to an endorsement from former GOP chairman Haley Barbour.
David Evans

On Writing: When Susan Sontag was 26, she met William Phillips, one of the founding editors of Partisan Review, at a cocktail party. She asked him how she might write for the journal, and he said, “All you have to do is ask.” She replied, “I’m asking.”…courtesy The Writer’s Almanac
Doug Couch

A Texas woman made it past TSA agents at DFW Wednesday with a small hand gun packed in her bag. Just another example of how our airport security system is just a big show to make the flying cattle feel safe. The rest of the world protects their airlines by looking for terrorists and we are looking for bombs.
Doug Couch

Ryan Brunn,the confessed killer of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, apparently committed suicide while being held at Jackson State Diagnostic Center. Brunn had been sentenced to life in prison without parole and was awaiting assignment to a prison facility.

While nothing will bring back that innocent little child or mitigate the horrors she endured at the hands of Brunn, he has, at least, saved the taxpayers a considerable amount of money.
Lee Leslie

LikeTheDew contributor, Andy Brack in the New York Times -- read “Obama, the Grown-Up” in “Room for Debate” at http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/19/would-south-carolina-be-better-off-under-a-democrat/obama-the-grown-up-that-south-carolina-needs.
Doug Couch

R.I.P. Etta James. A great musical voice has been silenced.
Doug Couch

I have to admit that I agree with Gingrich on this one. These debates (and I’m about sick of the sheer number of them) should focus on the issues, not candidates’ sexual peccadillos. The media has already driven one candidate out of the race by harping on his alleged indiscretions simply because they couldn’t wrap their minds around the concept of a conservative Black. It seems so easy to ignore the antics of JFK (and his brothers) and Bill Clinton but make a huge issue over Republicans’ personal lives. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Jim Smith

And I have to admit that I think you’re wrong, Doug. For anybody else in the world who didn’t happen to be on the impeachment committee, maybe you are correct, but in Newt’s case, he made this OUR business by pressing the issue so noisily against Clinton. The thing about the goose, yeah, bingo.

Oh, by the way, there are lots of other reasons to reject Newt, among them the fact that his flipper is as well lubricated as Mitt Romney’s.
Lee Leslie

Favorite quote from SC: “I miss seeing car ads,” said Graham, R-S.C.
Mark Johnson

Two pictures of Newt on the home page? Must we?
David Evans

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”--Christopher Hampton, playwright and screen writer
David Evans

More on writing: “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”--Collette
Monica Smith

The Man from Bain

The dog’s in his kennel,
The poor in their nets.
For the man from Bain,
That’s as good as it gets.
beatspro

Vancouver purple beats can also be known as red beats pro “city of neighbourhoods”, each dr dre beats spiderman having a different character and cultural blend.
Lee Leslie

My favorite provision in law extending payroll cuts, the doc fix and extending unemployment: The measure also would prevent welfare recipients from using their electronic benefits cards to withdraw money at ATMs in strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores. -- What a strange and complicated world we live in.
Monica Smith

I hear hourly workers at GM are getting a $7000 bonus. That’s not chicken feed.
Glenn Overman

Imagine, Lee, if we could just keep our legislators out of those places with our money….

Why a Surge for Guantanamo?

Could there be a more appropriate monument to the War in Terror than the wasteful and counterproductive prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base? At a cost of $4,360.00 a day per prisoner, it is among the most expensive lock-ups on the planet and surely the most expensive for inmates who are neither deposed heads of state nor leaders of defeated rebellions. (For that amount you could book a Premier Suite at the Ritz Carleton Central Park and still have a thousand dollars left over to pay for dinner!) The cost in international reputation cannot be calculated in dollars but there Read on →

To Do or Not To Do

That is the 21st Century question. Whether agents of government are tasked with telling the public what to do or, as the United States Constitution suggests, are to limit themselves to prohibiting socially injurious behaviors by individuals and corporations. Republicans, being descendants of royalists, whose model of social organization is the family with its paternalistic head of household, continue to hold fast to the belief that their fellow man needs to be strictly ruled. Because people doing their own thing make them feel really insecure. This is what accounts for the sudden resurgence of legislation all over the country, some organized by Read on →

A Hole In The Head

Author's Note: Not to be read while you’re eating. This time “What’s on your mind?” is not a fatuous question on Facebook, it’s a medical matter It started bugging me in April last year, and 14 months later it’s getting on my nerves. I need that like a hole in the head. A gentle tickle in the face, not bad at all, escalated as the weeks went by. Why was I getting a sore sensation from the upper lip to the right temple? It’s like the pain you feel when a bad throat infection makes it painful to swallow, except it’s in the face. I con Read on →

May you live in an interesting age

Tuesday morning, you may have heard, there was an explosion in a maintenance shed at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport here in the Big Peach. It killed the power to Concourse D, so officials evacuated the folks there to Concourse E. When the power was restored, everybody went on their merry ways. But lawdamursy, did Twitter ever light up. I used "Atlanta airport" and "Hartsfield" as my search terms ... and you seriously wouldn't believe all the "OMG WHAT IS GOING ON IN ATLANTA" tweets. Especially after some poor soul thought a minor explosion at the airport would make a good cover for Read on →

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