You know, Bobby Jindal’s use of taxpayer money to fly around his state and go to church is totally different than Sarah Palin’s use of taxpayer money to go to church. Gov. Jindal used helicopters instead of airplanes! See, it’s… Continue Reading
Perhaps the first and foremost concern I have for what the President of the United States does is what kind of people the President will appoint to the Supreme Court. That has the most impact on my day-to-day and professional… Continue Reading
You didn’t notice. You probably didn’t care. But there is a new Cabinet-level branch of government here in the United States, as of today. Congress, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in three generations, in the middle of… Continue Reading
Would-be theocrat Sarah Palin has now managed to seriously piss me off, despite a lot of forbearance and tolerance on my part. Since being elected Governor, she’s spent $13,000 of Alaska’s taxpayer dollars traveling to religious events. What, there are… Continue Reading
If you’re rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket, you don’t need me to tell you that you want a game-changer to enter the game. You need some good news, and you need it not much later than two weeks before the… Continue Reading
Today is the traditional beginning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008-2009 term. Most of the big cases, of course will not be decided until June of next year. But I’ll point to a couple of cases that have caught my… Continue Reading
A friend from Tennessee asked in an online forum: If someone could articulate the distinction between the two parties, I would love to know. It would be lovely to have a major party that I could believe in. Also, it… Continue Reading
Looks like the bill did not pass out of the House, by a vote of 206-227. More later.
Following are a number of pictures taken of, and in, Wisconsin’s impressive state capitol. As we learned this morning, a “capitol” refers to the building in which a government conducts its business, a “capital” is the geographic area designated for… Continue Reading
I have no idea what to think of the financial bailout being discussed even now in Washington (well past midnight on early Saturday morning). I am deeply suspicious of the idea of a seven hundred billion dollar act of market… Continue Reading