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Let’s apply this movie quote to today’s Congress: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! More ... Talk about bad pennies always turning up; Jimmy Carter's at it again. It would be easy to blame the 83-year-old former one-term president's frequent excursions into irrational behavior on senility were it not for the fact that he appears to have been senile most of his public life. More ... Order another bag of peanuts, pass the cotton candy and get used to the smell of sawdust, because the circus tour has been extended. Yes, my friends, welcome to the primary that will not die. You'd think that after six thrill-filled weeks of hosting this sideshow competition of rival ringmasters outdoing each other in the Like A Normal Human Animal Act, the State of Pennsylvania would selflessly provide the rest of the country with a semblance of closure by permanently pulling up the stakes of this traveling Big Top. More ... A school in McLean, Va., reports The Washington Post, has banned tag. It's a national trend, you see. Dodgeball, tug-of-war and touch football are no longer permitted at many public schools across America. More ... By now everyone with a roof over his head has heard about the subprime mortgage mess. Understanding why so many homeowners are defaulting on their mortgages or what mortgage foreclosures have to do with the collapse of the housing market, however, is another matter. More ... I read Andy Hefty's "Don't Get me Started" column regarding his feelings on sex education in public schools and I feel that must respond to this editorial. I don't know Andy personally, but he and I both also write for the North Florida News Daily and I have communicated with him via email and respect him as a fellow contributor to this newspaper. More ... Five words? Nothing can be explained in as little as five words, let alone something so emotionally and physically involved as sex. But a recent column claims to have solved the sexual education conundrum in a short edict, "Required in marriage, otherwise forbidden." More ... |
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