How could DeMint do it?

The U.S. Senate is one of the most noxious entities on the face of the earth. The House is bad enough, but for some reason Senators are often far more leftist than Representatives.

When a recognizable human being is elected to the U.S. Senate it's so rare you almost feel like, well, writing your Congressman to urge that the date become a national annual observance. One was never sure what to make of Jim DeMint. He was so well-acclaimed, yet seemed such a cream puff of niceness. And he has turned out to be a conservatiberal, sometimes aggravating us beyond words, but often meriting a B where an A was desperately needed.

I've finally gotten used to the idea that we're better with him than without him, and now he's quitting Washington to head the equally iffy Heritage Foundation. I remember when Heritage came about -- it was touted as a return to political sanity, but has had more than a streak of neoconservatism about it since before that word was common. It could use some strong, unequivocal paleo-conservative leadership, and it's too bad Jim isn't made of such stuff -- because you can't live on crème de menthe and gefiltefish.

Truly awful is his choice of successor -- because, as this message from Talbert Black of Palmetto Liberty PAC points out, the latter endorsed the troublesome Speaker of the SC House of Reps:

Hi nelson,
Short and to the point... Tim Scott endorsed Bobby Harrell just before this year's elections.
Thought you might want to know.
Here is the video.  http://youtu.be/RpPdY6w94_c
Enjoy!
Talbert Black Jr.

Now here's an article one is tempted to call GREAT. It's epic in sweep and uses past insanities and crimes to throw light on today's tinsely glories:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/12338-trial-run-for-interventionism
Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionism

It's a great privilege to often have business at PN headquarters. One of the many reasons is the subscriptions the boss has got. The New American is about the best on her coffee table. Every single issue brings a feast of information, history, and opinion in four colors on glossy paper, all done brilliantly (except for its too-frequent neocon spasms). Get to know the New American. Urge your local library to subscribe so you won't have to. I believe if three people request it do so, libraries are duty bound to oblige. Well, I heard it somewhere.

The New American is magnificently conservative if you can get past the fact that it carefully avoids the biggest subject on the socio-political map. And in that, it's not alone.

To close off our day's exploration, I thought was preciously ironic that Charter.net's homepage news feed took this picture of decadent pop star Avril Lavigne and titled it Celebs with crazy appearance fees.



Get it -- crazy appearance fees?

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