Left rages against tea parties

Donald Douglas at American Power, conservative holding down the left coast of California, takes a look at both sides of the tea party issue in his latest post. He participated in the Orange County Tax Day Tea Party on Wednesday.

WaPo's bias continues ... pigs, lipstick, macaca

The Washington Post laments the pig/lipstick debate in conservative circles and the lack of concern of more pressing issues in today's editorial, "What's the pig deal?" Are they serious?

In a word, let me remind them of "silliness:" macaca.

They took one little comment and made a "big deal" out of it.

The same argument they are advancing today could be made about 2006 when the WaPo chose to run endless front page stories about macaca and to interpret what they thought the meaning was and what they thought was the intention of the Senator, ad nauseum.

Excuse me, WaPo ... your bias is showing ... and growing day-by-day.

Puh-leeze. Spare me the faux concern.

Mom is cancelling newspaper subscription after 60 years?

As long as I can remember my mom has read the newspaper every day, front to back. Always. Without exception. I'm sure that's where I learned to be such an avid reader and part of the reason I became a news/political junkie.

Mom was born and raised in Chesterfield County and has lived there all her life, graduating from Thomas Dale High School after World War II, raising a family, working in a man's world at a time when most women were staying home raising children. The newspaper was a daily part of her life.

I just got off the phone with her and she told me that, after 60 years of home delivery, they are cancelling their subscription to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Avid letter writers throughout the years, they began to notice changes at the paper beginning last summer. Those changes have become more and more disturbing to my parents especially with the loss of Ross Mackenzie earlier this year when he retired, taking with him his conservative values and beliefs.

My parents are entering the "read-it-on-the-computer" age because they no longer want to financially support a newspaper they believe is turning too liberal.

My sister recently cancelled her subscription to the Times Dispatch after receiving it for years. I continue to receive it here in the Valley but my husband and I were recently talking about possibly letting that subscription lapse....

The Times Dispatch has long been a lone bastion of conservativeness in a liberal sea of journalism. It's sad to see it changing.

I cannot imagine my mom not starting her day at the kitchen table reading the newspaper....