Donald B. Hawthorne
On the recent Republican party behavior: I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform…
I wish I could find an old political cartoon I recall from the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearing days which showed Ted Kennedy as the plantation master talking about how blacks weren’t allowed off the left-wing plantation. Well, today’s plantation masters are left-wing feminists like Gloria Steinem. Catch the irony here: Roughly a decade ago,…
Along the way, Sarah Palin asked what the difference was between a pit bull and a hockey mom: Lipstick. Ahem, after listening to her speech, ladies and gentlemen, I’m betting she is plenty tough enough and most surely ready for primetime. Some excerpts: On her experience as a public servant: “I had the privilege of…
Why the ferocious reaction by both the Left and the MSM to the Palin nomination? The conventional wisdom is that it is sexism, a variation on what Hillary experienced during the Democratic primaries. That is certainly part of the explanation. When have you ever heard male candidates, such as Obama, asked about how they will…
Newt. Newt: “I don’t know of a single thing Obama has done except talk and write. And I would like you to tell me one thing…” at which point the MSNBC reporter sent it back to the desk. Rudy. All of this talk about experience only serves to put more of the spotlight on Obama’s…
Here is some interesting news: John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president. Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism,…
Rich Lowry wrote a touching post, saying: …I found the Palin event Friday incredibly moving. Partly because of Trig. The sentimentalist in me would be willing to see anyone who is loving and unselfish enough to welcome a Down kid into their family elevated to high office. When I was thinking of Trig, I was…
Sometimes it is valuable to step back from the hectic doings of our lives and reflect on deeper things…such as the direction of our lives. The mystic Thomas Merton wrote “Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”
Beginning at 16:36 in this video of her speech today when she accepted John McCain’s selection of her as his Vice Presidential partner, Sarah Palin said these words: …I signed major ethics reforms…And I championed reform to end the abuses of earmarked spending. In fact, I told Congress: Thanks, but no thanks, to that Bridge-to-Nowhere.…
Jonah Goldberg writes about Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper: Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. Peter Rodman is dead. And memory is dying with them. Over the weekend, Solzhenitsyn, the 89-year-old literary titan, and Rodman, the American foreign-policy intellectual, passed away… What I admired most in both men was their memory.…