My Conservative Brother’s Annual Column
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 28th, 2009 5:32 am by HL
My Conservative Brother’s Annual Column
Maureen Dowd, NY Times
WASHINGTONMaureen Dowd As my brother Kevin headed off to Christmas Eve Mass in the Maryland suburbs, I asked him how he thought the first year of Barack Obama had gone. He didn’t have to pray long over that one. “Fine,” he replied, “if you like unmitigated disasters like the Hindenburg and the Redskins season.” If it’s Christmas, it must be time for my conservative brother to take over my column and turn it a blazing shade of red. So without further ado, here is Kevin unplugged, offering a perspective from “the real…
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