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It’s What You Do

May 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin We all remember what Batman’s girlfriend said to Bruce Wayne when she thought he was being a stupid playboy. “It’s not who you are, it’s what you do that defines you.” At first, this idea surprised me, since the default assumption for many in our society is that it’s “who you truly are” [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: conservative, debt, ideas, liberal, outcomes, results, welfare
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The Immigration Conundrum

May 1st, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a lot of political chattering and commentating in the media these days about illegal immigration (for example, here, here, and here). The current high level of consternation was caused by a new law in Arizona, which basically is an attempt to step into the void created by the federal government’s long-term [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: alien, Arizona, conservative, illegal, immigration, Law, liberal, reform
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Liberal Hypocrisy and the New Voter Base

April 29th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Once upon a time, a friend of mine wrote a very nice poem about how liberals and conservatives worked together and complemented each other in the process of keeping the country strong. Less than a year later, she’s writing that although she “doesn’t think all conservatives are evil,” she “find many of its [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: conservative, evil, immigration, liberal, partisan, Puerto Rico, statehood
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Do I Get A Pulitzer Too?

April 13th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin The Pulitzer Prize results are out, and the editorial cartoon winner this year happened to be one Mark Fiore of San Francisco, whose “wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary.” Among Mark’s other pieces at SFGate.com appeared a piece called [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: conservative, Fiore, liberal, Pulitzer Prize, satire, Tea Party, teabagger
Categories: Humor, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

The Role of Justice Kennedy

April 11th, 2010

By Tom Carter There’s a good article in The Atlantic by Andrew Cohen, chief legal analyst and legal editor for CBS News. In Why Kennedy Owns the Supreme Court, Cohen discusses the increased influence Justice Anthony Kennedy is going to have on the Court once Justice John Paul Stevens retires. It has to do with [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, Kennedy, liberal, nomination, Stevens, Supreme Court
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A More Conservative Court?

April 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter Now that Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has officially resigned, effective at the end of this term, speculation is ramping up as to whom President Obama will nominate to replace him. As I noted in an earlier article, the question isn’t whether the President will nominate a liberal, but how [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, liberal, nomination, Obama, Senate, Stevens, Supreme Court
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Coffee and Tea

March 14th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin I’ve always been a tea drinker, myself. Just never liked the taste of coffee. Which for me makes it doubly ironic in a way that the new grassroots group to spring up from the ground has decided to call itself the “Coffee Party” in a reaction against the Tea Partiers. The movement [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Annabel Park, Coffee Party, conservative, liberal, libertarian, Tea Party
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Like It or Not

January 24th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The election of Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy marks the beginning of a major turn-around in our political system. This reversal didn’t come about overnight. There were ample warning signs, but the Washington crowd has long ago stopped fearing the voters. Many of them (both [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Democrats, FDR, liberal, progressives, Scott Brown, socialism, tea parties
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It Can Happen Here

January 21st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Right now, a lot of people are celebrating that Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in Massachusetts, thereby breaking the supermajority of the Senate Democrats who seem so utterly determined to shove “reform” down our throats whether we want it or not. These people span many viewpoints and both sides of [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, conservative, fascism, liberal, progressive, socialism
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Sarah and the “Birthers”

December 6th, 2009

he Obama White House and the Liberal Mobs headed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed are in the process of attempting to do terrible damage to the free market in the United States and if the free market dies, the United States is essentially dead. That is a much, much larger and much more immediate issue than trying to prove that the “Capo di tutti capi” of the aforementioned Liberal Mob should not be where he is, doing what he is already doing.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: birthers, conservative, liberal, Obama, Palin
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Extremists of Left and Right

November 25th, 2009

By Tom Carter It’s been said that the political spectrum isn’t really a straight line, with the most extreme right-winger standing out on one end and the most extreme left-winger out on the other end. In reality, it’s more like a line curved to form a circle, with the extremists of left and right standing shoulder [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, extremists, left, liberal, radical, reactionary, right
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Eric Holder’s Traveling Circus

November 23rd, 2009

By Larry Ennis Attorney General Eric Holder has yet to set up shop for the trials of the Gitmo Five. Meanwhile, the Five are reportedly already wanting to lay down certain rules that will allow them to make a mockery of all the victims and our justice system. Were it my decision to make, there [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: federal trial, Guantanamo, Holder, liberal, New York, Obama
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Thou Shall Not Govern

November 12th, 2009

By Harvey Grund When I ran across a recent article at Air America online titled Abortion Restrictions In House Bill Show Power Of Organized Religion In Politics, I broke into a sweat! (Well, not literally.) However, how could it be that I, a self-professed proponent of conservatism, could agree with anything that the “wacko libs” [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: abortion, conservative, health care, Law, liberal, religion
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The Hidden Public Option

September 4th, 2009

Obama is a very radical example of Liberalism and while some are not as radical, all Liberals are control freaks! Until they can control every aspect of public life, they will keep trying — its a vicious cycle that will only end when they are no longer in control of Congress (or the White House).

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: conservative, health care, liberal, public option
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (15) | Home

The Centrist Coalition

January 30th, 2009

The Centrist Coalition is a group of blogs oriented toward centrist politics and centrist points of view. Centerfield is the blog of the Centrist Coalition. I consider Opinion Forum to be centrist. Of course, we sometimes take positions that are distinctly to the left or right because our authors express their views freely. I hope [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: centrist, conservative, liberal
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The False Dichotomy of Left v. Right

January 10th, 2009

In formal logic, we are taught that if a conclusion is in error, then at least one of our premises is wrong. So it is with modern politics (well, not just modern politics). An inordinately large number of people in the United States believe in the supremacy of their party over the other guy. They [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: conservative, liberal
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Coleman vs. Franken

January 6th, 2009

These words can be found in Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members…. Either the House of Representatives or the Senate can refuse to seat anyone sent to join it by any congressional district or state. This power is [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, liberal, press
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Best Notable Quotables

December 28th, 2008

The conservative Media Research Center has just released “The Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” Given the political orientation of the Media Research Center, you can rightly expect that their report will highlight liberal bias in the media. But then, where else would you find a report like [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, Humor, liberal, press
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Gay Marriage

December 22nd, 2008

Against gay marriage, are you? Why? Is it because of your religious beliefs? Because you think marriage is supposed to be the union of a man and a woman for the primary purpose of having children? Because you think same-sex marriage will fundamentally alter our society for the worse? Because you personally object to legally recognizing a lifestyle that [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, Law, liberal
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

“Change” Means Change

December 18th, 2008

As reported in Politico, gay activist leaders are very upset with President-elect Obama because he invited Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Warren is pastor of the Saddleback Church in California, one of the largest churches in the U.S. He’s a high-visibility Christian leader–so much so, in fact, that he hosted a forum at [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, liberal, Obama
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