The corpse of the McCain campaign isn’t even cold yet. And all of these Republican politicians already have speaking engagements in Iowa in the very near future, or are in the process of lining them up: Bobby Jindal, the Governor… Continue Reading
Republicans in Florida, readying their last-ditch GOTV and last-weekend campaigning, have begun distributing these signs:Seems to me that there’s something, well, missing from that sign. And that there are a lot of people in the party who are going to… Continue Reading
And it has good production values! H/T to Melinda.
Usually, when the prosecution in a case is caught fabricating evidence, and the judge instructs the jury to that effect, that leaves the defense a pretty good argument. When the jury then independently finds exculpatory evidence that everyone — prosecutor,… Continue Reading
A sub-issue in the campaign this year has been what the proper role for the Vice President should be. It’s difficult to remember a time that the Vice President took a passive role in the government. Certainly the last two… Continue Reading
I first saw this idea in a column by David Brooks in the New York Times: The Republican Party is become the party of anti-intellectualism: What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated… Continue Reading
Much like I thought, Sarah Palin was simply thoughtless in her remark. …Palin also apologized Tuesday for any misunderstanding caused when she referred last week to the patriotic values of “the real America” and “pro-America areas of this great nation.”… Continue Reading
When you have too many stimulants, you start to make mistakes. It weighs you down. You become a danger to yourself and others. Like your children and your grandchildren, whose futures you are spending now to mitigate the effects of… Continue Reading
By now, if you’re still following news from the Presidential campaign, you’ve come across the two-day-old trope of pouncing on Sarah Palin for differentiating “pro-America” parts of the country from other areas. Compounding it was another remark, which I’m not… Continue Reading
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