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Seeded on Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:21 PM EDT
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-- ... I thought I'd pass along some of the lessons I've learned since my first column in 1993. --

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David Rutt

• Republicans are hell on the country but good for columnists. In reviewing 13 years of columns, I found that the ones written during President Clinton's administration were far less entertaining than the ones from the Bush years. That's why I don't believe in the so-called "liberal media" meme. Most columnists vastly prefer conservatives to be in charge of government, because the resulting budget deficits, needless wars and forced Puritanism make for more interesting copy.

There's nothing like a good war to sell papers ;)

Really good article, thanks Irma

  • 2 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:33 AM EDT
oldfogey

Oh, my, God! In a cocktail dress yet! Now if she would just walk this way. Absolutely absolute article Irma. How do you find these gems? This one gets printed and kept.

Thank you.

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:07 AM EDT
Irma

Following 416 feeds within Bloglines and / or Google Reader, using the Google Personalized Homepage, with yet other headlines, being subscribed to Google Alerts for several topics, lots and lots of surfing from one place to another, a lot of reading and plain old luck. Or so I guess.

  • 3 votes
#2.1 - Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:31 AM EDT
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Abe Martin

I've been reading Hammer for years. I always knew he was good. He probably even knows where I got the name Abe Martin. The last advice I took from him was to try "Four."

    Reply#4 - Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:32 PM EDT
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