We strongly suggest our readers have a look at this talk from attorney Philip K. Howard of Common Good, a legal reform advocacy group, on the state of law in American society and how it can be reformed. Howard captures vividly the damage legal abuses have done to our culture, national character and economy…
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My wife and our children had the opportunity last year to live in southern England for almost five months while I worked a few projects for my Washington, DC based government relations consulting firm. Being in the UK and spending significant amounts of time in London allowed me to read the multitude of daily newspapers [...]
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Take, if you will, this quiz from AmericanCivicLiteracy.org. It’s 33 multiple-choice questions and shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes or so.
Go ahead, do it. We’ll wait.
Once you’ve taken it, compare your score with these numbers:
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It’s hard not to like Jim Brown. The former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner-turned-blogger/radio host is one of the few statewide pols who will throw his honest opinions into the fray, and what he says is usually thought-provoking stuff. Brown has been around a while, knows most of the players involved in Louisiana politics and policy and [...]
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This column marks the debut of Oscar, TheHayride.com’s resident voracious rodent and all-around pestilential influence. We want it known from the beginning that any relationship between what the little guy says and the editorial position of TheHayride.com staff is completely coincidental – were it not for certain contractual and/or economic factors unfortunately in play we [...]
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New Media titan Andrew Breitbart, speaking at the National Tea Party yesterday in Nashville, castigated the traditional press for their coverage of the Tea Party movement with a speech that will likely become viral. Here’s a video sample:
Breitbart closed the speech with this quote, which brought the house down:
“If you don’t start reporting the truth [...]
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A brand-new controversy has sprung up nationwide surrounding former University of Florida Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow and a Focus On The Family ad slated and accepted to run during CBS’ airing of the Super Bowl Feb. 7.
In the ad, the story is told of Tebow’s mother, then a missionary in the Philippines who had [...]
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While the Republican Party is casting about in an effort to recharge its brand and prepare itself for the opportunity this fall to mount a 1994-style comeback, the punditocracy in New York and Washington is decrying the lack of a GOP leader for the people to rally around.
This is less a problem than people think, [...]
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Andrew Breitbart’s BigJournalism.com reported today that Air America, the left-wing radio talk network which has been bouncing along on the margins of viability since its inception in April 2004, is being tubed by its management. The company announced plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and shut down its operations immediately, shutting down its programming [...]
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A new feature promoting the best links we’ve found on the web…
From Tucker Carlson’s new Daily Caller website comes a piece entitled “Secrets of TV news: Confessions of an anchorman” which is an absolute must-read in understanding the effect of the left-wing media on local news.
A sample:
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