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Thursday, May 09, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: DO WE NEED A “KILL SWITCH”?

San Francisco DA George Gascon, has weighed in with his idea on how to combat what is a raging problem in fighting crime – the theft of cell phones, and…...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE BOSTON MASSACRE II

Is anyone else getting sick of the press attempting to make excuses for the Tsarnaevs?  Regarding these young men (and note, I did not say “boys”), it would seem that…...

Monday, March 25, 2013

SALLY MORRIS:  HOW ABOUT AN “AUTOPSY” ON THE CAREER OF REINCE PRIEBUS ?  AND MARK SANFORD?

We keep hearing about the “autopsy” being performed by Reince Preibus, Republican National Committee chairman.    He believes that, now, after a morals-neutral Progressive campaign has once again failed to deliver…...

SALLY MORRIS: A GOOD CALL FOR EDUCATION

Democrats opposing Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lamar Alexander in their efforts to give parents choice in their children’s education and opportunities for low-income students to benefit from school choice,…...

Monday, March 18, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: IN DEFENSE OF THAT GREAT IRISHWOMAN, MOTHER MACHREE

I just read Mark Steyn’s “Song of the Week” feature on “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” and enjoyed his informative and erudite discussion of the remarkable Chauncey Olcott and a…...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: PUT EDUCATION IN THE MARKETPLACE!

When you don’t have a superior product to sell, the last thing you want to offer is a choice. Education – or the lack thereof – has been much in…...

Thursday, March 07, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: AMERICA’S NOUVEAU-RICHE “ROYALS”

What could you do with an expense account of half a million dollars per year?  I don’t know about you, but most of my acquaintances could paint the world a…...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT THE FINAL CROSSROADS –MEND OR DIE

It is probable that we are witnessing the end days of at least one part of our political culture – the Republican Party.  It would seem that our extensive exploration…...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: GUNS IN AMERICA – PART THREE – CLASS WARFARE; “ALL WANT IS A CHANCE”

President Obama went ahead and decreed that he and his family should enjoy lifelong Secret Service protection.  No one really argued with him.  It was undoubtedly one of his more…...

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: GUNS IN AMERICA – PARITY, THE DEFACTO DEFENSE AGANST OPPRESSION

Directly following the horrendous massacre at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut, I proposed that, rather than banning guns (inasmuch as Connecticut and the rest of America have already banned murder…...

SALLY MORRIS: THE 2012 ELECTION PART TWO – THAT ELUSIVE HISPANIC VOTE

Again with the “get with the times”, “demographics are changing and Republicans need to change with them if they want to win elections”!  Last time we examined the perceived abandonment…...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

SALLY MORRIS: MAYBE IT’S NOT OBAMA’S FAULT.  MAYBE IT’S YOURS.

So, President Obama chose, on the far fringe of the grass that is growing on the edge of the "fiscal cliff" to issue an Executive Order authorizing pay increases across…...

Sunday, December 23, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: ONE MORE TROUBLED GENIUS FINDS ONE MORE GUN-FREE ZONE

I am completely out of patience with this.  It is disgusting beyond the gag reflex to keep hearing one self-serving, suppliant politician after another bowing and scraping on yet another…...

SALLY MORRIS: LESSONS FROM 2012 – PART TWO: THE ELUSIVE “HISPANIC VOTE” AND OTHER FALLACIES OF

Last time we discussed the spurned Conservative vote and why we needed that vote to win.  But that doesn’t really interest the people who talk about lost elections – people…...

SALLY MORRIS: BELLS

Among the best known symbols of Christmas are the bells – church bells chiming, sleigh bells jingling, and the ringing of the Salvation Army’s bells.  The Salvation Army kettles themselves…...

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: LESSONS FROM 2012 - PART ONE: THE VOTE THAT WASN’T COUNTED

With all the post-mortem commentary on the airwaves, very little of it has focused on those people who had a tremendous impact on this election – by staying home.  For…...

Friday, November 02, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: THE VALLEY TEA PARTY ENDORSES CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES . . . AND WHY

I recently had a conversation with the regional director of a national tea party organization. He told me that they have a strict policy of never endorsing a single candidate.…...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: “OSAMA’S DEAD BUT GM IS ALIVE!”

On this Constitution Day, September 17, 2012, we have yet one more threat to our Bill of Rights:  Islamists half a world away and their accomplice in the White House. …...

Thursday, August 09, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: THE TONE-DEAF MITT ROMNEY AND WHY WE DARE NOT LET HIM LOSE

As the weeks before the election dwindle down, and on the eve of the Republican Convention, it seems appropriate to consider the state of the GOP.  We have at the…...

Monday, July 30, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: THE MASS MURDER THAT WASN’T

Last week I ran across an item on Drudge.  Rob Port also wrote about it in his Sayanythingblog.  A vicious, deadly attack was perpetrated against innocent shoppers in a Salt…...

Thursday, July 26, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: BETTER THAN GUN CONTROL?

BETTER THAN GUN CONTROL? With all that’s been said in the past several days about alleged mass murderer James Holmes, and throughout the resuscitated gun control discussion, there are a…...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT “FAST AND FURIOUS” AND WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT CONGRESS

  Who cares what secrets the Justice Department is keeping from us? Who cares what we don’t know about Fast and Furious? What are we doing about what we DO…...

Friday, May 11, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: PROPERTY RIGHTS? OR PROPERTY TAX?

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the…...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: COULD WE HAVE A FREE SAMPLE OF MITT ROMNEY?

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve…...

Thursday, March 29, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: THE SMOKING MIC

    To no one’s surprise, last week President Obama was caught on a hot mic again.  This time he was leaning over to apprise Russian President Medvedev of his…...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: WILL THE REAL NON-ROMNEY PLEASE STAND UP?

The elephant in the living room at the moment is this question:  who should the Republicans nominate to run against Obama?  It is understood that we cannot afford one more…...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: STANDING UP FOR WOMEN . . . WHERE’S NANCY?

Just a little more before we move on from the Rush Limbaugh flap.  You know the one I mean – wher e he used an insulting term for the woman…...

Friday, March 09, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: BELIEVE YOUR LYIN’ EYES

The once respectable National Review continues its downward spiral, now in its incarnation as an online source.   On Wednesday the electronic rag hit another low point.  Under the anonymous authorship…...

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

SALLY MORRIS:  COLORS AND CONTRAST - THE GREAT ND STATEWIDE DEBATE

Saturday evening’s statewide debate provided the voters of North Dakota a better opportunity to look at the men and women who are asking to represent them in the US House,…...

Sunday, February 19, 2012

SALLY MORRIS: “STUPAKED” - WHY I WON’T SUPPORT AN “ACT OF CONSCIENCE” AMENDMENT

The President’s healthcare mandate, conveyed through the offices of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius, that we all have to accept funding of abortion, sterilization, birth control and attendant services, has the…...

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