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Today, as I write, is George Washington’s birthday, the real one, as opposed to yesterday’s official observance. Today, the best story in the newspaper describes the return of a young, local soldier and the arrival of the cat who inspired him during his tour of Iraq. To which I say: Thank you, happy homecoming, and may you be together ‘til the end of your days and beyond.
Today is also my daughter’s birthday. My first child and Bicentennial baby is twenty-nine. A University of Illinois-Urbana graduate, she now attends law school in Chicago where she lives downtown, lets her brother, my son (another U of I graduate) camp out on her couch, and has a delightful boyfriend, no slouch in a profession of his own. To them I say: Here’s to flourishing careers but don’t forget my eventual grandchildren.
Today is also my daughter’s birthday. My first child and Bicentennial baby is twenty-nine. A University of Illinois-Urbana graduate, she now attends law school in Chicago where she lives downtown, lets her brother, my son (another U of I graduate) camp out on her couch, and has a delightful boyfriend, no slouch in a profession of his own. To them I say: Here’s to flourishing careers but don’t forget my eventual grandchildren.
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Sunday, March 17, 2002.
You like irony? Here’s some irony. At the same time as I’m writing this column I’m seriously considering canceling my subscription to the State Journal-Register. No, not really, although if I believed it would accomplish anything, I might.
Why, you ask? Here’s why. As of Friday, November 8, I can no longer in good conscience justify paying the salary of one Ann Coulter in order to read the rest of the paper.
You like irony? Here’s some irony. At the same time as I’m writing this column I’m seriously considering canceling my subscription to the State Journal-Register. No, not really, although if I believed it would accomplish anything, I might.
Why, you ask? Here’s why. As of Friday, November 8, I can no longer in good conscience justify paying the salary of one Ann Coulter in order to read the rest of the paper.
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As the title implies, the following reads like a section of a longer piece, except that it really isn't. It's simply a rhetorical device I invented for this particular article, which jumps headlong into the heart of the matter.
EXCERPT FROM EXPOSE
Chief among the live-and-breathe-politics brand of journalists is Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s sustainer of other broadcasts, who pays lip service to his humble origins while demonstrating on virtually every edition of his “Hardball” program the extent to which he has abandoned them.
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ash read no further than the sentence "Liberals couldn't wait for the 2,000th American death in Iraq" in her local paper before banishing conservative columnist Michelle Malkin from journalists worthy of her time and attention - forever. The following elaborates:
Just when State Journal-Register readers thought they were safe from the rantings of silly scribe Michelle Malkin, she swoops in with another drive-by column attempting to define the motives and sentiments of liberals, and pay no attention to how they define themselves.
Just when State Journal-Register readers thought they were safe from the rantings of silly scribe Michelle Malkin, she swoops in with another drive-by column attempting to define the motives and sentiments of liberals, and pay no attention to how they define themselves.