Dr. Maureen Hackett--she of the 'lower-middle class home'--is running for Congress. The photo above comes from her website, showing one sentence from the quotations potpourri otherwise known as The Eden Prairie Veterans Memorial, our ostensibly...

One of the best-loved arrows in a blogger's quiver is the venerable Hypocrisy! charge. The semiliterate dogmatist trotted out this accusation recently against the top vote-getter in the 2000 Presidential election, Al Gore. (Should you read Sheila...

"I thought I was fairly clear, but apparently was not." Author Unknown In his latest reply, Mitch Berg--ever thus--doesn't fail to stab the conscience. We have a factual dispute. I asserted that British/American culture values military heroism less...

Shot In The Dark's Mitch Berg responded to a few ideas in my previous post. (You can read his jabs down in the comments on the previous post.) I'd asserted that--'within the cultural churn'--military heroism isn't valued as it once was. So I was...

Three days ago Kevin Rudd--Australia's Labor PM--issued an apology 'to the Forgotten Australians - the half a million children raised in institutions, orphanages and foster care throughout the last century.' Nine hundred people assembled for the public...