Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Huckleberries Online

Hump Day Quick Fix 6 (12/15/04)

I want you to pay attention, O My Readers, to the QF6 Opinion Fix feature. You won't find a better lineup of conservative thinkers in your daily newspaper than you'll find in the Opinion Fix feature. Today, for example, you have white-hot conservative femme columnists Kathleen Parker (pictured) and Michelle Malkin, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, William Safire of the New York Times and a fine Wall Street Journal writer. You get that every day in the QF6 feature. I thought I'd point it out in case you were overlooking it.

1. Political 'Toon Fix: Paul Nowak (Christmas wish list), Wayne Stayskal (ACLU), and Timothy Kelly (Hillary).

2. Humor Fix: "You know I was Christmas shopping over the weekend and I noticed something. Have you noticed most Americans are now as big as Santa? Santa is now an average sized guy. Remember when we were kids, Santa was huge? Now he’s smaller than half the people waiting in line" -- Jay Leno.

3. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, This Day in Music here, Today's Birthdays here, and Positive Quote here.

4. Top of the News Fix: Kerik affair at Ground Zero apartment here, Boy Scouts raise funds outside ACLU HQ here, Christmas is deadliest day of the year here, Demos offended by Bush photo here, and New mass grave in Iraq could contain 500 bodies here.

5. Supreme Court Fix: Liberals are right to be more concerned with Clarence Thomas than Antonin Scalia, since his jurisprudence represents the greatest threat to their ideology, according to the Claremont Institute, here.

6. Opinion Fix: Kathleen Parker/Orlando Sentinel (American spirit takes root in Iraq), Michelle Malkin/Creators Syndicate (Air marshal mess), John Guardiano/Wall Street Journal (Spc. Wilson and media bias), Newt Gingrich/Philadelphia Inquirer (U.S. health care needs a spark), and William Safire/N.Y. Times (California's stem cell gold rush).



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.