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A woman spent Tuesday afternoon with good friends who share her interest in ceramics but are culturally and politically conservative while she most certainly is not. COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT: Moderates vs. conservatives: Part 463 Reflecting on the party's ballot box losses in 2006 and 2008, GOP strategist Robert Uithoven recently said in an interview that "Republicans lost because voters became disenchanted with the party for not living up to conservative principles," declaring that this is a philosophical "battle within the Republican Party that needs to take place." Letters to the Editor GEORGE WILL: And now, just as disco is dying... WASHINGTON -- Unfortunately, China's president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent G-8 summit, he could have continued the Herculean task of disabusing Barack Obama of his amazingly durable belief, shared by the U.S. Congress, that China -- and India, Brazil, Mexico and other developing nations -- will sacrifice their modernization on the altar of climate change. China has a more pressing agenda, and not even suppressing riots tops the list. GARRISON KEILLOR: The beauty of ordinariness A summer Sunday in an old Midwestern river town, walking down the avenue under the elms past yards burgeoning, with vinous and hedgy things and multicolored flowerage, the industry of each homeowner shown in the beauty offered to the passerby. The children of these homeowners may be telling their therapists harrowing tales of emotional deprivation suffered in this very home, and yet back in April and May, weekends were devoted to making this front yard splendid, and that is worth something. Much can be forgiven of those who make beautiful things. MICKI BARE: Quirky car endearing, like former widow neighbor In the past, we've gone car shopping around the time of our last payment for our current vehicle. The rationale being we were used to the car payment, so we might as well trade the older one in for a model with more cup holders. That was during better economic times. |
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