Kathleen Parker's piece in Newsweek is called: "What the *#@% is wrong with Republican men? It's not just Akin. By pushing some of the most invasive state policies in modern history, the men of the GOP are driving their party off a cliff. " Read her entire column here.
In a blog called "Right Turn" in the Washington Post site, Jennifer Rubin writes an artible called "Ten myths about conservatives."
"… Much of what the observers know is wrong, so simply dispelling 10 misconceptions that they have about Republicans should be useful. …"
Read all ten of Ms. Rubin's myth-busters by clicking here.
Finally, here is a fine tribute to the kind of hero Americans' are drawn to and the kind of hero former astronaut Neil Armstrong was. The article by Megan Garber in The Atlantic is titled, "What died with Neil Armstrong," and an excerpt is here:
American mythology loves nothing more than the reluctant hero: the man -- it is usually a man -- whose natural talents have destined him for more than obliging obscurity. George Washington, we are told, was a leader who would have preferred to have been a farmer. Thomas Jefferson, a writer. Martin Luther King, Jr., a preacher. These men were roused from lives of perfunctory achievement, our legends have it, not because they chose their own exceptionalism, but because we, the people, chose it for them. … Neil Armstrong was a hero of this stripe: constitutionally humble, circumstantially noble.
Read the entire tribute here.
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