While Barack Obama disses the closest of US  allies, by both returning a bust of Winston Churchill, as well as barley acknowledging Gordon Brown’s visit, it appears that he is snuggling up to sworn enemies of the US. Kind of odd diplomacy, isn’t it? With news that Obama plans on lighten...

Quotations about Attitude Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude Zig Ziglar It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie Gottlier Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves mis...

CHARGING GEERT WILDERS: A DEFINING MOMENT Melanie Phillips So the inevitable has now come about in the teetering civilization of Europe, and it has happened first in the Netherlands. One of the supposedly most liberal societies on the planet wants to criminalize someone for telling the truth. The BB...

A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters. The center is supposed to enhance the experience of visitors to Congress, although why there are visitors is a mystery....

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Leadership is speaking to raise a people up in a crisis. Today we are in an economic crisis, and there is no raising up. The great Bully Pulpit of the Presidency has been vacated, and it is a shame. Here we have President Bush, yesterday, lamely talking about the economy in "half full" ter...

NOW THE HELL WILL START One Soldier's Flight From the Greatest Manhunt of World War II By Brendan I. Koerner...

That's right, four score and seven years ago today at Valley Forge, John F. Kennedy and the Lone Ranger chopped down the cherry tree that Squanto ate at the first Thanksgiving, and Paul Revere hung a light in the Alamo to alert Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders: "N00B, red team has taken teh control po...

GCSE Student The Tabloids in the UK have been going off their Red Tops with indignation that students penning swear words in their English answer papers are getting rewarded. An examination board chief provoked the media indignation by suggesting it is okay if they do not go wrong with the spelling ...

Yet again, the comments to a previous post have gone on an interesting tangent. Once again Jeff was behind it. He’s not afraid to get stuck into a debate and he always has some interesting points to share, even though I don’t always agree with him! I thought the discussion was quite good...