Watching the NBC Weekend News during supper [so much for any attempt at news restriction], a reporter unknown to me, Rosiland Jordon, was introducing a story about Bush hitting the campaign trail. She said that "for the first time," Americans were getting to see the President "for free." It made me irritated, of course. He’s […]
The current New Republic has an article about a political ad in South Dakota. The ad had a group of doctors supporting a ban on abortion. The ad itself is not the point, being filled with absurds lines like, "Science now proves that life begins at conception" and "Over 96 percent of abortions performed in […]
Maybe it’s always this way, right at the end, and I just haven’t paid enough attention. I recall an incident in 1970. My wife and I were new parents, and political up to our foreheads. My wife was a Memphis precinct captain for Al Gore Senior, long running Senator in a pitched battle with Bill […]
Want to see a really angry lady? Try Lynn Cheney. She’s a fireball in her own right, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an author, and, from the looks of things, a pith viper in her own right. It’s a bit like the interview where Clinton was blind-sided by Chris Wallace. Wolf Blitzer [who […]
Everyone watching Olberman’s piece on Limbaugh talking about Michael J. Fox assumed that Rush’s wild gestures were an attempt to mock Fox. Let’s not jump to conclusions. It could have just been delerium tremins…
Stand For The Family Events Bomb Focus on the Family has cancelled two of their “Stand for the Family Events” scheduled to be held in giant auditoriums in cities across the country — moving them instead to much smaller venues and in one case to a local church where the admission will be free of […]
In the Libby Case, A Grilling to Remember But when Fitzgerald got his chance to cross-examine Loftus about her findings, he had her stuttering to explain her own writings and backpedaling from her earlier assertions. Citing several of her publications, footnotes and the work of her peers, Fitzgerald got Loftus to acknowledge that the methodology […]
…but the idea’s the same. Eleven more days. Go ahead, send in a little more money. We did. Or maybe make a few calls, send some emails. We did that too. Do something you’ll be proud of having done in two weeks…
How does one measure a war? Would it be measured in loss of life, or cost, or winning or losing? Perhaps measured in terms of what was created [Revolution] or perhaps, what was prevented [World War II]. One thing for sure – America has certainly had its share of wars in our brief 230 years […]
There’s an enormous amount of buzz on the Internet about the callousness of Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Michael J. Fox. I liked the one by James Boyce, Rush Limbaugh: Winner Of The 2006 Swift Boat Asshole In Action Award. Limbaugh responded to Fox’s political commercials with the charge that Fox either stopped his medication or […]