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Local candidates need to tune in to the national political discussion.  It is important to understand what partisans on both sides are thinking.  Regardless of whether you have conservative views or liberal views you benefit from understanding the other side.  I’m going to do a few posts about political blogs that I think are worth watching.  We will start with two bloggers who don’t always stick to the party line.  They each have a clear bias in one direction (neither one is a conservative liberal or a liberal conservative), but they often share a different perspective on the issues.  Like most voters, they aren’t in lock-step with the party line. And, a real bonus is that they both write extremely well.

Camille Paglia is a liberal, a feminist and an atheist, but she has a creative take on the national political scene. Her columns at Salon.com are well worth reading for both conservatives and liberals.

On the other side of the political spectrum, Peggy Noonan is an outspoken Catholic and has generally conservative views.  She was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan.  However, during the 2008 campaign she angered some conservatives with her columns.  Her writing has a lyrical quality that is rare for a political columnist.  She writes a Friday column for the Wall Street Journal’s  OpinionJournal site.  By the way, the Wall Street Journal is fiddling around with its website, so if that link doesn’t work, try the front page or columnists page for OpinionJournal.