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Quote of the Day, Jonah Goldberg

  “The problem for the Democratic Party is that its core philosophy and mechanisms are increasingly ill-suited to our times.”  National Review’s Jonah Goldberg in his recent piece, Are the Dems Doomed? 

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Quote of the Day, Jonah Goldberg

“Things are ugly for Republicans right now. But that might just be because things are ugly all over. And when it comes to enthusiasm, my hunch is that more people will be excited to vote against Obama than to vote for him.” — Jonah Goldberg, NRO, 02-24-12

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Pondering the Death Penalty

I used to be against the death penalty.  Then I read the transcript of the torture and murder of a teenage girl by two men in the 1980’s.  They audiotaped their barbarity for kicks, taking turns in the back of a van doing things so cruel that I had to stop reading about them.  It […]

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