I’m personally disappointed at the level of discourse on Townhall.com. The places I’ve found that provide more insightful commentary include Captain’s Quarters (http://www.captainsquartersblog.com), The Anchoress (http://theanchoressonline.com), and What’s Wrong With the World (http://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net). The Anchoress tends toward Catholic issues about half the time, and WWWtW is intellectual, but Captain’s Quarters is down to earth without being pedestrian.

Did you visit Newt’s site and download his agenda?

Again, welcome.

In particular, I shared the opinion expressed in the piece on Newt’s theory of how much more we had in common as Americans than implacable differences. I have often felt this way but never really put it to words. As it happens most of my friends tilt left politically (in the NE this is a fact of geography). However, as much as we may differ politically, these are strong family people, many of whom I would trust with my life and my children. Most of them have NOTHING good to say about George Bush or the war in Iraq, but these are not people who want to live under Sharia law, and they don’t bristle when they drive by a church with a nativity scene (at least as far as I know). They are folks without huge agendas who for the most part are just trying to live their lives.

I never took it so far as to put it in terms of 85% with many shared basic values and 15% hard core leftists on the other side. I was fascinated with this and the percentages cited on specific issues. Whoulda thunk it?

Anyway, sorry to get so far off topic,but that entry really caught my attention, and I wanted to post to a more recent entry.

Have found TH great for the columns, but don’t particularly care about the way they degenerate into name calling as the comments roll on. Nothing wrong at all with pointed, sharp dialogue, butcalling someone you disagree with a libdolt isn’t likely to get you very far.

Thanks, sorry for being long winded.