I took Barack Obama to task during the primaries for this statement, first announced in a primary debate against his fellow Democrats and later underlined when he affirmed it in subsequent campaign statements: “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value… Continue Reading
C-SPAN brings you the following real-time transcript of debate of the floor of the United States House of Representatives that theoretically could take place on September 12, 2009: Congressman 1 (R-FL): “Madam Speaker, This tax reform bill is bad for… Continue Reading
P1: Palin makes a rather weak joke about hockey moms being like pit bulls who wear lipstick. Gets big applause from a friendly crowd at RNC. P2: Obama uses the oft-repeated analogy about putting lipstick on a pig in reference… Continue Reading
What if all candidates for political office gave messages like these? Hello, I’m Daniel Martin Smith. I believe that I have an invisible dragon in my garage. It can heat my house in the winter and it helps my children… Continue Reading
In previous posts, I have argued that the McCain-Palin 2008 ticket should stop using the song “Barracuda” because it is contrary to the wishes of the owners of the song. I think that analysis still holds. However, there is an… Continue Reading
This post has to be The Best Palin Analogy Yet, and it seems to be pretty much right. She has a job to do and she’s doing it quite well. More than a week later, she’s still dominating headlines. What… Continue Reading
A little bit more than half of all NAPP readers are very, very down on the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. Certainly, for liberals and other critics of the McCain campaign, she is the gift that… Continue Reading
I’ve said it before — both in an academic journal and in these pages. A politician should not use someone else’s copyrighted music, like say, the popular song “Barracuda,” without the permission of the copyright owner. Niether the GOP nor… Continue Reading
Upon reflection, the big fantasy football draft this year produced some results that were a little bit odd. I’ve got a lot of players on teams I don’t usually follow all that closely. For quarterbacks, we got Trent Edwards (Buffalo),… Continue Reading
I picked as my quote of the moment an anonymous but ethusiastic GOP staffer who effused that Sarah Palin “completely changes the narrative,” lifted from a report in the increasingly-partisan Political Animal. This has proven true — Sarah Palin is… Continue Reading