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"In what was being dubbed a purity test when it leaked out to reporters on Monday, the proposal would require the party to withhold campaign money and endorsements from candidates who do not adhere to at least seven principles on the checklist."

"But it was also likely to inflame moderate party members who have been urging the party to resist pressure from activists — spurred by commentators like Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel and leaders of the diffuse Tea Party movement — to move again… Continue

Republicans Versus Independents

Recent news reports and polling strongly indicate that people self-reporting as Independent voters are growing disenchanted with many of the policies of the Obama administration.

On the surface, this should give a shot of confidence to the Republican party struggling to reassert itself after resounding electoral setbacks in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

But a curious thing is happening with the ranks of Independent voters: most of the people… Continue

I definitely don't like the health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives.

I'm making an educated guess that I won't like the “watered down” Senate bill either.

And assuming passage in the Senate, I suspect I will not like the combined conference bill that finally emerges for the President to sign.

That is no surprise because I am a Republican with definite conservative economic views.

But, this is not the apocalypse. This is not the end of mankind or civilization.

It is di… Continue

Evidently it is in the news that the Fort Hood gunman is severely wounded and in great pain, even though he has survived and is likely to recover...whatever "recover" means...

He is being given massive amounts of pain killers...but I have to ask, why bother????

What a perfect way to extract retribution for his traitorous, bloodthirsty crimes...withhold the pain killers...

I'm all for sending a Predator drone aircraft to "neutralize" this guy...after the medical staff role his hospital bed out… Continue

The politically correct approach to the terrorist attack at Fort Hood a week ago seems to be to make excuses for the man who did the shooting and claim he was mentally deranged just like any other rampage killer in the United States.

I think this is completely deluded thinking.

Just because we are able to reconstruct a terrorist crime in retrospect and find that the perpetrator was mentally unbalanced does not mean that an act of terrorism has not occurred.

All of the 14 victims are still dea… Continue