‘Cause reading Associated Press articles lately, I could swear it sounds like the past thirty years never happened.
Headlined “Poll: Pocketbook Issues Push Past Iraq,” an article quotes Linda Zimmerman, “a 50-year-old sheep farmer from Thurmont, Md.” (Which makes me wonder again: Where do they find these people?)
From the article:
Her daughter and son-in-law are having […]

We watched Amazing Grace last night, a film from this past spring on William Wilberforce. I was familiar with his name, knew he was a force for good in the eighteenth century, but couldn’t remember how. Being reminded of it, and the comment by the director (Michael Apted of the fascinating Up series […]

Seems like if I can score 90% (and it should have been 93.3%, if I’d bothered to read two easy questions properly) on a quiz that apparently most college seniors, at every school surveyed, failed—seriously failed: 53.7%, on average, between last year and this—I should be able to score some sheepskin.
Their results:
Average score for this […]

It’s seemed from what I’ve read that his views match mine the best, so I’m not terribly surprised. I figured it would either be Romney or Thompson.

Others can join the fun here.

Through one of those “only on the Internet” series of tangential links, I happened onto this site, and had to read their “About Us” page. As hard as it was to ignore the other three, I realized I had to write them about at least the third of their stated beliefs:
“In order to stop […]

I just had concluded — it wasn’t my doing; he bailed — a week-long debate with a leftist by the name of Patrick Coony, editor of Newsbatch.com. I’m a little disappointed by it, as I was eager to get his answers to the arguments I made in my last installment. I’m not sure […]