OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

LPR Wonders …

… if we can ever again be sure that it is Tina Fey appearing on "Saturday Night Live" and Sarah Palin serving as governor of Alaska.

… if Sarah Palin will replace Tina Fey in a commercial with Martin Scorcese

… if the Washington, D.C. culture will ever overcome its addiction to money and power.

(Cf. this observation from Chapter V of Ecclesiastes: "A lover of money will never be satisfied with money; whoever loves wealth reaps no fruit from it....")

OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

LPR Suggests …

… that Aggrandizers Anonymous chapters be established in the nation's capital with meetings that open with passages from Federalist 57, Ecclesiasstes, and
the speeches of George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life."

OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

LPR Urges …

… liberals to recognize the validity of Mark Twain's observation: "Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."

OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

More Thanks to Sweden …

Sweden provides more visitors to LPR than any country other than the U.S., any state other than California.

OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

LPR Also Thanks …

… the person whose search under "Thomas Wolfe on greed" brought up an LPR reference to Wolfe.

See the LPR Archives by following this link: lonelypamphleteer.com/AmericanSpirit

OCTOBER 28, 2008 --

Sorry, Rudy Giuliani …

This writer cannot respond to your email appeal to donate to the McCain campaign.You made that impossible when you used property taxes to force the Dayton-Seaside apartment buildings in Queens into bankruptcy, effectively ending my family's real estate business. Your action at Dayton Seaside did, however, give renewed validity to the warning in Federalist Paper No. 10 that powerful people will use property taxes for unjust purpose.

OCTOBER 15, 2008 --

Affordable Baseball Tickets …

Barney Frank can be expected to get a reception rousing

When he presses banks to give low income people ownership-housing

He has, however, ignored a cause that seems also laudable:

To persuade major league baseball to give people prices that are affordable

OCTOBER 15, 2008 --

LPR Wondering -- Right on Target …

LPR, September 16, ran a piece called "LPR Wants to Know" that in part wondered if a pundit would tell us that Dennis Haysbert, playing President David Palmer on "24," got American voters used to the idea of a black president. Turns out that Mr. Haysbert, himself, thinks that -- that his portrayal of President Palmer helped Sen. Barack Obama get the Democratic nomination for president -- for real.

OCTOBER 15, 2008 --

LPR Infers From Federalist No. 57 …

that a Democratic sweep November 4 will bring no change to Washington, other than to veer more sharply in the direction to government -- of, by and for the insiders, seeking the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few" -- neo-aristocratic government, basically. (And it might occur to the Democrats [ following Mayor Bloomberg's lead in New York City] to repeal presidential term limits, giving the country the possibility of Democratic presidents for life.)

[Written the morning of the third McCain-Obamna debate.]