Day: November 22, 2008

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker is certainly paying the price for speaking the truth. Her recent column in the Washington Post (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111802886.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&sub=AR ) has the nut-balls at Townhall.com and Freerepublic.com positively calling for her head on a pole.

Ah, the costs of speaking the truth to those who have no wish to listen.

What Parker says, in a nutshell, is that the Republicans have got to ditch the religious right wingnuts and focus on being an intelligent political party, presumably advocating small, constitutional government that lives within its means.

Kathleen Parker, meet Ron Paul.

Why is the government in the business of marketing? I just saw a commercial from the Interior Department. This is ridiculous considering the financial position we find ourselves in.

OK, I know that someone is going to say that TV donates time to non-profit commercials.

But even if the TV time for the commercial is free (which I seriously doubt), it still costs taxpayer dollars to produce the commercial.

And the commercial is nothing but government propaganda.

So to all the politicians out there, I say, lets’ start a simple campaign to halt all government commercials. If there is information we need to know about, put it on your website(s).

Dateline. Washington, D.C.

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