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I Haven’t Laughed So Hard

My dear wife told me I was going to enjoy the Get Fuzzy comic strip today (May 1).  She was right!  I can only refer you to the strips web site, since showing the actual strip violates the copyright they are exercising, but if you click over there before May 30, you’ll be able to [...]


Updated Reading Level…

It took a couple of months. As you may recall, we checked out our reading level at criticsrant.com back in November. At the time, our rating was “elementary school”. Well, we’re proud to say we’ve moved up, and we’re now at “High School”. Although the writers here are college educated, this [...]


Miles for our Heroes

Some of you may already be aware of this, but there is a great site ( I got info from my employer today) where you can trade in your accumulated airline miles so family members of wounded servicemen and women can get free plane tickets to visit their loved ones recovering at military hospitals across the country.  [...]


How Do The Pollsters And Campaigns Get All Those Phone Calls To You?

On Van and Bonnie on WHO this morning, there was an interview with a political telemarketing expert from George Washington University.  The topic was the technologies, techniques, and purpose for all those phone calls we’ve been getting here in Iowa the past few weeks.  You can listen to the interview here.

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The Conservative Reader is now running on WordPress!

We made the move to WordPress, and with a few minor glitches, got things working. The old address (blog.conservativereader.net) points here now, as well as www.conservativereader.net and just conservativereader.net. Thanks to BitHead at BitsBlog for recommending WordPress… I love it! And thanks to my dear wife for putting up with my vacation [...]


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