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point of order…

  From Time Magazine: The End Of Cowboy Diplomacy: President George W. Bush came to office pledging to focus on domestic issues and pursue a “humble” foreign policy that would avoid the entanglements of the Bill Clinton years. After Sept. 11, however, the Bush team embarked on a different path, outlining a muscular, idealistic, and […]

get this guy off of the stage!

Tom Delay hints that he may run again in Texas after trying to convince everyone that he is actually a Virginia resident. Whether he runs again or not, he is a remarkably arrogant guy. And more than that, he is the most blatantly unprincipled politician since Huey Long. He has no qualms that his Virginia […]

the truth was easier…

There’s an announcement of a terrorist plot on the Holland Tunnel – leaked by/to the Daily News. Then there are reports that this is old news, months old, and that the "leak" may be another political election year ploy. Is this a good leak [like Bush’s authorizing the NIE leak to discredit Joseph Wilson (or […]

Joe Lieberman…

The blogosphere has thrown itself into the campaign for Ned Lamont in Connecticut. I don’t know anything about Ned Lamont other than that, and that he opposes the war. But I do have something to say about Joe Lieberman. He is a member, actually a ranking member, of two groups, called The Committee on the […]

another idealogue…

Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot To Head ‘Super-Powerful’ Public Safety Office Last year, President Bush nominated a man who is radically opposed to the U.N. to be our Ambassador to the U.N. As opposition mounted to his confirmation, Bush made an "emergency" appointment during Congressional recess. Now our U.N. Ambassador is John Bolton, a man who […]

in a theater near you…

One might suppose that Ann Coulter’s day in the sun with her new book might be enough for her, and that the plagerism charges would pass in a day or so like Rush Limbaugh’s Viagra powered sex-vacation in the Dominican Republic. But she’s coming out spewing venom like a hermaphroditic Freddy Kreuger and throwing gasoline […]

Kudu’s around…

The Court Hands Congress an Opportunity Score one strong point for the Main Stream Media! David S. Broder’s oped piece in the Washington Post today is a balanced and sensible assessment of the recent Supreme Court ruling: Once again the chief executive had to be reminded that he is not above the law. No more […]

speaking of tacky…

“I’m not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.” says President Bush on July 4th. As I recall, the job was to neutralize Saddam Hussein’s threat as a nuclear power. That job was done before we ever […]

This hermaphroditic statue was unveiled in Memphis on July 4th – a monument to tastelessness rivalling Graceland’s shag carpets and sequinned leisure suits. My first reaction was that it was a target for North Korea’s missles or maybe Al Qaeda. But as offensive as it is, in some ways, it so concretizes the insane direction […]

ann coultergeist…

more venom…