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The hiring of Bill Kristol by the New York Times is a major mistake on so many levels. It's not like he needs another forum for his brand of intolerance and hatred. What are they thinking?

Joe Scarborough got together with Mike Huckabee and helped the good reverend play the Jesus card one more time before the Iowa caucuses. There is no shame in politics any more. What are we saying? There's never been shame in politics.

Australia will soon require Internet service providers to provide filtering tools for so-called inappropriate material including pornography. At first blush this may be seen as an attempt by the Australian government to censor parts of the World Wide Web, and a slap at free speech. We haven't seen the details of the plan to determine inappropriate content, but is this any different from parental controls to keep young minds away from violence and pornography? If the Australian government is the sole determiner of what is inappropriate, we have a problem with that. Another issue is the "opt-out" feature. Lots of room for abuse here, we are thinking.

A new poll indicates male voters have a problem voting for Hillary Clinton. We have no problem with Hillary being a woman. We just don't like the fact she is a Washington insider and that is exactly what this country needs less of. A whole generation of Bushes and Clintons in the White House is way too much. We need new ideas, new leaders, a new direction.

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