Brookline, MA BROOKLINE (CBS) – Neighbors are on the offensive in Brookline after what some residents are describing as aggressive turkeys. “They were attacking the vehicle,” Karen Halvorson said outside her home in the Aspinwall Hill neighborhood. After getting in her truck, a neighbor came and ran the birds off but it didn’t stop there. “Then, the turkeys came and started attacking my front door,” she said. A second run-in

Thanksgiving this year is going to be, to say the least, a lively event in politically-blended families. Some such families have a rule about no politics, some will leave those discussions for after dinner to pick at each other as they pick at the turkey carcass… And some families will have members engaging in open warfare over the appetizers and first cocktails. I’m pretty happy that my immediate family is

Hey, hipsters and Obama fluffers:  to borrow a phrase, it looks like  America’s “progressive” chickensssss…are coming home to rooooooooost! CNET: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement

Why is it that conservative “contempt” for many in the electorate is so often posited as a reason why the GOP loses, while progressive vituperation and outward contempt — indeed, widespread mockery — of conservatism doesn’t seem to cost them many votes and lead to a lot of naval-gazing about how their messaging? One answer, naturally, is that the left, by way of the media and the academy and popular

Now you can see why the “conservative” opinion leaders freeze me out:  I’ve been on to them since forever.  Christie sabotaged Romney — and he did so intentionally once the storm gave him the opportunity — though it hardly matters at this point.  Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is writing the book on amnesty.  This is the GOP establishment. Distilled. Crystalized. These are two moderates (hell, they’re JFK Democrats) — who will

As I lay back on the divan, exhausted, thinking of Frank Gifford — the all-American curl to his forelock, the clean-cut, square-jawed righteousness manifest in his burst to a graceful gallop that in his playing days left lesser mortals, flawed champions all, broken in the dirt at his feet — I couldn’t help but notice:  he’s now an old white man. His kind are these days relics, moral throwbacks, political

I’m not great fan of Ron Paul’s foreign policy, but when it comes to certain aspects of the Constitution, he’s precisely correct and a forceful advocate for the document’s integrity.  It is fashionable these days to repeat the rote trope that the legality of secession as a Constitutional issue was “settled” by the Civil War.  Which is a lot like saying that the lie of US military preeminence was “settled”

Not only that, but I bet there’s a whole host of GOP consultants and bloggers whose ears are burning, too! John Londregan, professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University: A common trope in social policy debates is to claim that the public’s changing opinion on the policy at stake, rather than the policy’s moral or substantive justifications, merits