Doom and gloom washes over the Republican Party these days like a storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, drowning partisan political operatives in a rising sea of scandal.
Three months since America’s most destructive natural disaster lashed this region, this randomly selected street still resembles hell on earth. After the fourth, fifth, and sixth months since Katrina have come and gone, and fresh crises once again demand the nation’s attention, Waveland Avenue’s property owners and their neighbors throughout much of the central time zone’s coast still will need empathy and support.
In some ways, American women enjoy economic freedoms not enjoyed by women elsewhere. But we also use that false sense of enlightenment to delude ourselves that American women possess political parity, which in fact we do not.
Like old soldiers, old war protesters never die. But neither do they fade away. They just keep getting arrested and hauled away.
A liberal watchdog group is challenging Focus on the Family’s tax-exempt status, claiming founder James Dobson crossed clear IRS guidelines with his increased political involvement in recent years.
For the Republicans who run Congress, it may be time to think inside the box.