Language is not merely a tool; it is THE tool of tools. It is the essential ingredient that allows us to pass on knowledge, experience. It is the basis of all the collective knowledge that creates this magical civilization; that lights our homes and warms our feet, that fills our bellies and softens our mattress. There are not words to describe just how incredibly important language is; I won't try.
Because as long as this trope exists that taxes are "unfair" and "needlessly complex," it's people like Steve Forbes -- and not average taxpayers like you and me -- who will benefit.
She IS a part of this campaign, and, having made herself a public figure, is undeserving of any special benefit or protection. She has to face the same political ugliness that the Obamas have (where are the cries of wounded womanhood when Michelle Obama is called "The Mooch" and derided as a mad spendthrift, behaving as Marie Antoinette in the midst of this horrible Recession?), that Hillary Clinton has, that every other man and woman in the political arena...
Today’s Memeorandum is so filled with mindless rage and hatred (no false equivalences here: nearly ALL from the rampaging Right) that it beggars the imagination and would be impractical to comment on at length: the old paradigm of an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters, comes to mind, minus Shakespeare and adding only “angry monkeys.”
ask yourself why Sarah Palin guesting on NBC's Today (Toady?) Show is getting exponentially MORE press coverage than this story?
The Supreme Court has (predictably) expanded police powers broadly, ruling broadly in a case involving strip searches and jail visits, to expand all police's rights to strip searches (including cavity searches) of anyone for just about any violation -- including, as Justice Breyer notes in his dissent, a traffic offense:...
Anything about Foster's financial fostering of the creepy Daily Caller, whose Tucker Carlson and his soulmate Andrew Breitbart were working in tandem at the time of the latter's demise? No, but we DO get this: Friess also makes frequent calls for more civility in politics, and more unity.
"This is the electronic equivalent of someone writing a letter to the editor," John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, said in an interview. "You are rewarded by publication, not by payment."
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