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By Gloria Ferris (from Gloria Ferris)
Turns out that there has been a lot of pressure behind the scenes on the Breuer issue. The Cleveland Planning Commission meeting will take place in Room 217-the Council Committee meeting room. This meeting is the special meeting that the members agreed to have so that [...]

By Joe C. (from Right Angle Blog)   
I am not a fan of and don’t listen to Sean Hannity as a rule, but by pure serendipity I happened to be listening when George Voinovich was on today (HT: Hotair). I was inviited! Like witnessing a horrible car wreck bursting into flames – you don’t want to acknowledge the [...]

By John Ridley (from the Huffington Post)
Making fun of Dennis Kucinich is about as much sport as getting into a slap fight with a no-armed man. For me the high point of his eccentricities will always be one that occurred while I was covering the 2004 NPR Democratic primary radio debate in Iowa. In the [...]

By Jim Gilmore (from Human Events) 
Two years ago this week, the United States Supreme Court eroded our Fifth Amendment protections in the Kelo v. City of New London case by decreeing that government could seize your home to hand it over to private developers.
This was judicial activism at its worst. The Supreme Court essentially reworded [...]

By Jill Miller Zimon (from Writes Like She Talks) 

So I’ve finally figured out the timing for Sunday morning chores and a treadmill run so that I can watch some of the talking head shows. And that got me 30 minutes of This Week (intermittent with cable news coverage of the Jessie Davis case and lots of [...]

By Mark Steyn (from Steyn Online)
The other day, six Anglican archbishops called for the church to bless the unions of same-sex couples. The Anglican Church of Canada is about to have a big vote on the issue, and depending which way they swing it will either deepen the schism within the worldwide Anglican Communion or [...]

By John Ridley (from the Huffington Post)
There were a couple of Disney comedies from the mid-Seventies — The Apple Dumpling Gang and its largely uncalled for sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again — that starred Don Knotts and Tim Conway and elicited all the mediocre laughs you can imagine their pairing to entail. Basically [...]

By Michael Sandler (from CQPolitics.com)
For most of the past 10 days, Harry Reid had a ready explanation of why the Senate abruptly gave up on a highly volatile immigration overhaul: President Bush hadn’t done enough to rally Republicans to the cause.
“This is the president’s bill, and we are doing our very best to see if [...]

James S. Gilmore, III
June 17, 2007
Hon. George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
As you know from my public statements, I have supported your increase in troops in Iraq, in the belief that a new initiative was necessary to bring the Iraqi war to a successful conclusion. It has been [...]

By Mansfield B. Frazier
Few men, I would venture to guess, can — upon reflection years later — recall the instance or incident whereupon they started to become men; where, when and what happened that caused them to take their first, tentative, mental step onto the bridge that would ultimately lead them across the yawning chasm [...]