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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
    • 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….

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