Free-for-All Friday

TEMP CHALLENGE

Ratings based on wunderground.com at 7:33a (CST)

• Norfolk, NE, 15 degrees
• Ventura, IA, 19
• Eagan, MN, 21
• TIE, Beatrice, NE, Lincoln, NE, 23
• BALMIEST LECKBANDS, Garrison, IA, 24

FREE FOR ALL

• "Family drags uncle's corpse to insurance company to prove he's dead." --Drudge Report, 11/21

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE . . . CALIFORNIA

• "San Fran Poop Problems Worsening" --Drudge, 11/22

BUREAUCRACY

But by nature, the huge federal bureaucracy counts on bigger government and more taxes to feed it. So naturally, the bureaucracy is usually more sympathetic to big-government progressives than to small-government conservatives. --Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online, 11/21

IMPEACHMENT

After three days of Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry, we are left with only the monotony. We know in advance all the questions, the subjective mood answers and bureaucratic mindset of the witnesses, the ensuing spin, and the congressional posturing. ditto

Republicans believe they’ve been living life under two sets of rules. Considering what previous administrations have gotten away with — and what many of the people now clamoring for impeachment helped them get away with — it’s difficult to blame them. --David Harsanyi, NRO, 11/22

RAISING CHILDREN

We’re supposed to watch what our children watch.  It’s up to us to impart our impressions, opinions, and lessons as we see fit.  We’re not supposed to leave child rearing to athletes, actors, singers, and presidents.  --Chris Stigall, Townhall, 11/21

ABORTION

Perhaps the most shocking facts that have come to light about the abortion industry are the reports of sales of baby body parts for money -- and the callousness of those involved in the abortion and dismemberment of fetuses whose body parts could be sold. --Laura Hollis, ditto

"I LOVE OUR COUNTRY"

I love the vastness of our country, the different topographies, the different weather patterns, communities and cultures. I love the freedom we have to travel between states, to speak our minds, to bear arms, to practice religion, to work whatever job we want in whatever location we want. I love the freedom to vote for our government and to protest when we disagree with those who are in power. I love that we are the most welcoming country in the world, that we stand up for human rights violations and that we desire to be the shining light upon the hill. --Jackie Gingrich Cushman, ditto

ISRAEL

As long as a religious motivation for wiping out Israel persists, there will be no peace, and no two-state solution. --Cal Thomas, ditto