Points to Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan, unlike the last Republican nominee for vice president, is not a toy surprise from the bottom of a cereal box. What we have in Ryan is the box — the package — for the flakes Romney sells. Now to see if America is buying. Unlike…
DetailsDon’t you hate freeloaders? Those who won’t carry their weight? Those who cost others because they don’t use common sense and available resources to best possible uses? Me, too. That’s why I was bothered recently to hear from people incensed by the prospect of having to have health insurance under…
DetailsCongressman Louie Gohmert has it figured out. A mass murder in Colorado. Mass suicides by Iraqi and Afghan veterans. Blame them on one thing: Godlessness. “What really gets me as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs and then a senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place,”…
DetailsIf the gun lobby is to be our guide, he exercised his Second Amendment rights in ways our founders intended — using arms to keep an invasive government at bay. His weapons did just that, until law enforcement disarmed or removed all the explosive devices James Holmes rigged up in his Aurora, Colo.,…
DetailsJerry Seinfeld was gold — gold, I tell ya — when he said, in effect, all sports fans do is root for laundry. Whatever the sport: We may hardly know the players, but what stirs us to song is the colors they wear. So, what song emanates when the laundry is Chinese, yet…
DetailsAlyssa Sturgeon had me at “metaphors.” I teach college students to appreciate analogy. Sometimes it’s like yanking out a molar with rubber hose. Alyssa gets analogy. She’s in fourth grade. She wrote a letter to thet editor of the Vero Beach Press Journal to wonder how the state could have flunked…
DetailsTwo disasters blackened the blast-furnace summer of 2011 in Texas. Against one, man was defenseless: the duo of drought and fire. The first took almost half a billion trees. The later, nearly 4,000 homes. It was horrific, but only marginally worse than what the Legislature did to Texas schools. That disaster was…
DetailsThese days you just don’t know what story line to believe. Take the box-office hit that portrays Abraham Lincoln’s role as a vampire killer. I don’t know. That doesn’t match any of my previous reading. Then we have the narrative from Mitt Romney — job creator, economic prince on a white steed. It…
DetailsSomewhere in pledging allegiance to trickle-down schemes, buying warfare on credit, and putting the interests of millionaires ahead of our own, a lot of us forgot what government does. Here’s what we forgot: More than transporting us, lighting our streets and making our taps flow, government invests in human potential. …
DetailsFORT COLLINS, Colo. — We watched the fireworks. Then we watched the fire. It continues to singe our eyelashes. Last Wednesday, the pyro bombs weren't gunpowder-made but thunderheads popping off in the night. We watched them in our driveways, wondering which would bring rain. Instead … . Though the stormfront flung hail…
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