Nov 17, 2008 – Lawrence: Well Ryan (CR President) or Chris (Garcia) is going to have to come and talk to me about this, and I’ll have to take your … Maybe that’s because he refuses to talk to me. Instead, he’s instructed me to direct my questions to Pepperdine’s PR department. … To be continued.…

Nov 16, 2008 – to emotion via anecdotal parades of horribles, and a mindless propensity to conform to nonconformity. … Barack Obama – also voted to pass California's marriage protection amendment (Prop 8) by an overwhelming 70 to 30 percent. … Some homosexuals have even called for churches to be burned to the ground.…

Nov 16, 2008 – They have even taken to harassing people on their way to or from the church door and their car. … To change the definition of a word. … No one has attempted to refuse a constitutional right to any of these persons.…

Nov 16, 2008 – It moves from the box seats to the cheap seats, or better - to mix the metaphor a bit – the backbenches.  … Now they need to find their voice. The GOP needs to figure out what it wants to be if and when it grows back up.  … to make a paradigm shift, one that surely involves a quantum journey back to the future. …

Nov 16, 2008 – How much change is needed in order to be the change we can believe in? … Obama’s message was not that he wanted to blow up the system but to reform it, supposedly by minimizing special-interest influence … If Obama wants to be effective, it is practical for him to change his rhetoric, his approach and his standards for what “change” means…

Nov 16, 2008 – To answer that question, we may have to look to Hawaii. What? Well, let me start again. … Politicians do this because increased government activity is something they hope to use to leverage interest groups into supporting … exist to continual debt expansion.…

Dec 5, 2008 – Secretary Ritchie voted against including the rejected absentee ballots in the recount during a critical canvassing board meeting last … of rhetoric Franken's campaign has been using through the recount regarding the rejected absentee ballots.Gelbmann sent an email to … election officials on Monday telling them to begin sifting through rejected ballots.…

Dec 5, 2008 – I have yet to have any of them explain how it is that we invaded Iraq for oil but failed to confiscate even a single drop. … to engage. … This is no time to support the barbarians. As for poker, you could afford to play if you won.”…

Dec 5, 2008 – In Perry County, Alabama they have already voted to create a paid holiday called "Barack Obama Day." … That's the problem with promising to be all things to all people in order to get elected: if you actually win that way, they expect … you to pay up.…

Dec 4, 2008 – to “protect” them. … For example, if you are a Christian and voted for Proposition 8 to preserve the historic definition of marriage, some homosexuals think … Designate someone to watch the parking lot … You’re going to have lots of unexpected expenses.…

Dec 4, 2008 – Earlier I noted that it's possible for the Dems to "steal" the MN senate seat, because the senate gets to decide who "wins".  … Franken's only apparent recourse is to the courts or to the full Senate; I doubt he'll get anywhere in the courts, and I doubt that … eager to pass the card check bill and knowing that Arlen Specter voted to cut off the filibuster against it in the outgoing Congress…

Dec 4, 2008 – brainstorm possible responses to new challenges. … Thus, the big question about Obama has been answered: While Democrats -- even Clinton and Biden, who both voted to authorize the war … to close Guantanamo Bay.…

Dec 4, 2008 – In response to these requests, I decided to survey my 100 or so students right after Election Day. … “I voted for Obama to restore my faith in America.” “I was ready for a change.” “Obama will bring about good changes.” … First, I’m going to politely ask those who voted without considering issues to simply stop voting.…

Dec 4, 2008 – McCain lost Florida, 51% to 49%.  … , all but one were voted down.”  … to be. …

Dec 3, 2008 – To understand what is happening in Minnesota, one must turn to the Washington state gubernatorial election of 2004. … OK, back to work! … Unless ... he plans to track them down, determine how they voted and then ferociously fight to qualify the absentee ballots only of…

Dec 3, 2008 – A secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who supported the invasion of Iraq, voted to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist … He has uniformly voted with liberal interests and done nothing to justify a reputation for centrism. Until now. … to intervene when markets stumble.…

Dec 3, 2008 – WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama had to sign a lot of prenuptial agreements before he was able to put together the national-security … Former President Clinton would first have to reveal the names of the donors to his nonprofit global foundation to guard against conflicts … It is suddenly dawning on them that we are going to be in Iraq a little longer than they had been led to believe.…

Dec 3, 2008 – Actually, if California voters proved anything, it is that voters don't feel the need to vote Republican, even if they happen to recognize … Nationally, polls ranging from USA Today/Gallup to CBS News/New York Times to NBC News/Wall Street Journal to Fox News/Opinion Dynamics … Unless Jesus is going to rectify the stock market, Republicans are in for a lonely ride.…

Dec 1, 2008 – Surely many who voted for Obama saw him as potentially the new FDR, the man to lead us out of hard economic times. … Finally war came to the rescue. … The income tax top marginal rate increased to 79% between 1930 and 1940, the corporate income tax rate doubled from 12 to 24%, and…

Dec 1, 2008 – Bush was elected to his first term in 2000. … You have to wonder what it means today to think of yourself as conservative. … Perhaps it's tempting to think that opening the door to more government is a good idea.…

Nov 30, 2008 – If you want God to speak to you through a lottery, you have to buy a ticket. … It shouldn't matter, but contributing to Obama's campaign can't hurt. Don't worry; no matter who you voted for, you contributed! … Just keep saying, "You don't want to do anything to make global warming worse!" 8.…

Nov 28, 2008 – off debate on such measures, thereby allowing the Republican minority to use the filibusters to kill such measures so dear to the … He is now up to date, up to speed, and getting all the information George Bush is getting -- and he having to make decisions based … Welcome to Washington, Barack Obama.…

Nov 28, 2008 – (I was moved to write a letter to the editor, asking if perhaps black athletes were over-represented in the paper.) … Come to think of it, perhaps that would be a good place for the Somalis to go looking for new jobs. … to one man and one woman.…

Nov 26, 2008 – Incidentally, it's also a nice opportunity for the media to worship its idol.But there is a potential downside to all the visibility … Even people who voted for Obama don't want to see and hear from him all the time.  They just want him to do his job.  … lead the discussion, it's easy for those in political leadership to begin to believe that normal people share their interest in the…

Nov 26, 2008 – This request to the board was considered a last-ditch effort by the Franken campaign to gain more ballots. … try to put more votes in their column. … There seemed to be unanimous support for the campaigns to scale requests for review.…