Posted by hillbilly on July 31st, 2007 in Politics General
I recently signed up for email updates from the Patriot Post . Today I was browsing through the reader comments on various articles available on the site. I thought I’d put up a few ideas some of them had for discussion here.
Subject: Congressional Pork
Comment: Maybe Atty Gen’l Gonzalez should borrow Bush’s war strategy and go on [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 30th, 2007 in Bill of Rights/Civil Rights, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Immigration, Media's Political Role, National Security, Politics General, Republicans, Terrorism, The Constitution, War in Iraq
Or this week’s reading list, if you prefer.
I thought, given the absolute bust all of last week was, I’d be behind in the news and happenings but, really, I’m not. It’s more of the same that’s been happening for too long to recount. Pelosi and Company are still trying to defeat the U.S without regard to [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 28th, 2007 in Bill of Rights/Civil Rights, Immigration, National Security, Politics General, The Constitution
Sorry I haven’t been blogging. I have been trying to keep up with the latest stupidity news but it’s really hard. JamesC should be better in another 3-5 days. At least he wasn’t hospitalized.
Apparently, illegal immigrants strike again. The good news is the truck will no longer be allowed on any of the construction sites [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 24th, 2007 in Politics and Technology
New Category added.
Technology is a wonderful thing. Internet technology especially gives us the tools to communicate with other like minded individuals no matter where in the world they are. It can also have devastating effects when used for obfuscating facts, outright lies, or underground politics, such as the recent claim that the DailyKos advocated a violoent [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 21st, 2007 in Bill of Rights/Civil Rights, Media's Political Role, Politics General
When I first read this story published on the Weekly Standard, my first thought was for the family members. I’m a big supporter of free speech but I believe freedom of speech should also be tempered with discretion. Just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should or must.
Thomas’ anonymity is protected by the liberal [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 20th, 2007 in Elections
Granted, I’m no political expert but does it really make sense for him to announce now when there are already 10 candidates in the field and debates leave people unsatisfied except for a slightly closer looks at the frontrunners, and he’s doing just fine without announcing?
Amid accusations of avoiding filing, trophy wife, abortion lobbying, and other such [...]
Posted by hillbilly on July 18th, 2007 in Politics General
I once owned this site, Writing Wise, but gave it to a friend of mine who wanted to pursue a different course in the normal writing sites arena. She contacted me asking if some of my visitors might be interested in contributing to the message board. The message board is totally private. You won’t be able to [...]