Here’s the first press release: In a letter to the President — the second in as many weeks — Senators Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray invited the President to Capitol Hill this Friday to begin dialogue on a supplemental bill that fully funds our troops and recognizes the reality on the…

Two humorists in one week! Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84. Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain…

I think the horse is dead but what the heck! Let’s beat it a little more because hubris needs to be ridiculed without mercy: Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised…

Just heard Fred Thompson on the Sean Hannity Show and it really sounded like he made his announcement to see how we would react. Would it make us less supportive. It sounded like he was interested in running, not because he particularly wants to be president but because he knows that we need someone to…

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