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On the last day of competition at High School Speech and Debate Nationals in Atlanta, Georgia, I sat down with my speech coach Greg Davis to discuss my strategy for the final round of Nationals Congress. It was the first time in the history of my high school for a student to make it to the final round of Nationals Congress, and this conversation would be important to placing at Nationals. My coach referred to me a story of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan <more> who had recently passed away earlier in March. He was regarded as one of the most intellectual senators to have ever served, an advocate of intellectualism in the face of rampant partisanship. The peculiar thing about Moynihan was not that he was intellectual, but that all the Senators on the floor knew he justified all of his thoughts and ideas with cogent argumentation. When votes were cast, he would vote a certain way, and every US Senator knew why. If both sides of the aisle in Congress regarded intellectualism as normative in public policy versus an aberration, we could have a more accountable and forward moving government. If high school students can be civil, so can Congress. As Pat Moynihan would say, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” CO Political News US Political News One of the most interesting things about this election was the breakdown of the youth vote…. For more maps check out Map Crazy…
House District 23 is still up for grabs. Reading from Political State Report say the vote margin is just four votes! Other than that, slow news post-election news recovery…
A great story about the perils of urban warfare in Fallujah marked by the haunting “black flag.” Best of luck to our soldiers and troops for their resilience.
The 5C Royal Antarctic Expedition Society- Possibly a satire of the Winston Churchill Society?
Could the mostbeautiful women in the world live in Argentina and not the UK and US?
Joe D Loves Hillary Clinton
British Comedian Dave Gorman on the Joys of the GoogleWhack
Stephen Colbert on D&D
Nader’s Etude on Becoming King of the Jungle
Tenacious D’s Tribute: You’ve Seen it Before, Take Some Time to Enjoy a Classic
Bill: Why Bush Won
Jessica Simpson Compliments Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton for her work on the decor of the White House
On Research, check all the facts with:
Media Matters for America
Snopes
Factcheck.org
Remember that: “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”- Pat Moynihan