He found a way out of Vietnam, just like Cheney and Limbaugh: During a TV interview Tuesday morning, Trump–who spent his high school years enrolled at the New York Military Academy–said, “I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number. I’ll never forget, that was an amazing period of time in my […]
One of the saddest losses we have experienced in a long time: Elizabeth Edwards, who as the wife of former Senator John Edwards gave America an intimate look at a candidate’s marriage by sharing his quest for the 2008 presidential nomination as she struggled with incurable cancer and, secretly, with his infidelity, died Tuesday morning […]
As technology rules more of our lives, stories like this will become much more common place: An electronic monitoring system tracking sex offenders, parolees and others shut down, leaving authorities in 49 states blind to offenders’ movements for about 12 hours, authorities said Wednesday. A system operated by Boulder, Colo.-based BI Incorporated unexpectedly hit its […]
I hate playing the game of “i told ya so”, but it looks like that is what’s going to happen. Last Friday I wrote a post in which I said: I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as […]
I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as backed up by the evidence of them actually not doing much to deliver once in office. The thought is that Republicans need to keep the abortion debate alive to insure […]
This is priceless: The Republican party took down its innovative link-shortening tool Tuesday for several hours after pranksters had a field day using the tool to associate the GOP with bondage sites. As part of its new media strategy, the Republican party launched a new site called GOP.am on Monday. It’s a URL shortener designed […]
We look down under to Australia where it’s Tuesday morning: The All Ordinaries index dropped 192 points, or 3.4 per cent, in response to big falls on European exchanges overnight. Yup tomorrow in America is going to be very interesting. UPDATE Here is how the BBC is reporting the news: Global stock indexes, including the […]
That is the rumor with the announcement of Rob Portman leaving the Bush administration: Rob Portman’s announcement Tuesday that he will resign as White House budget director puts the popular former Cincinnati-area congressman back in play as a force in Ohio politics – and as a potential statewide candidate in coming elections. For a political […]
When news broke of the attempt on Dick Cheney’s life this week, the Huffington Post had a few reads make comments that they were upset that the attack missed Cheney. Arianna has responded to the right wing smear which has since emerged: On Tuesday morning, The Huffington Post linked to an AP news story on […]
It was just a little over a month ago that Bush said he told al-Maliki that the U.S. forces would “operate more freely”. This raised a lot of questions in Washington, and rightfully so. It appears that the U.S. was taking it’s cues from the Iraqis on our military presence. Now we have the case […]