For our user agree- ment, click here . By David Sarasohn D ear Newt, Come back. All is forgiven. Now, the House is being run by Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, an exterminator who got into the political business because the government kept trying to name his poisons. Even sitting across from Hastert, observers seem to doubt it.
Gun control is the perfect example.
Instead of looking at the problems in godless education or the problems plaguing a secularized culture, the White House prefers to demagogue political issues. . . . All this knee-jerk lawmaking is missing the point. There's always the danger, of course, that the House of Representatives might lapse into lawmaking. On the other hand, the books of Kings, Samuel and Chronicles remind us that even really, really prominent posting of the Ten Commandments isn't going to solve your problems. But the big problem in America is not gun ownership.