The Trials of Dollar Dinner

So Kerry dissed the troops. What’s that make now, political gaffe #357 for him and the Democrat collective? It’s almost to be expected. Hmmm, there’s an election about to occur. Time to turn a speech about Bush’s inadequacies into an “oopsie-daisy” remark that will turn the sliding electorate into solid Republicans. I have no doubt [...]

What WMD?

The nuanced Al Jazeera flash cartoon Lileks links to today is bizarre in its blatant yet somehow unintentional presentation of the new New York City skyline since 9/11.

What an ironic placement of Bush fishing for WMD, right smack in the place where a giant hole surrounded by a chain link fence now lies. So much [...]

Terri Dead, Terri Not Here

Terri has died. This may sound callous, but may we move on? I think it’s time we had another national controversy to occupy our minds. Bush is going to make a statement about her…at the beginning of a WMD speech.
I think Buzzmachine’s got it right. This has been political to the end. Makes me sick [...]

A Difference of Two Terms

Greg Piper says that Bush and Clinton are more alike than either guys’ supporters want to admit. Maybe so. Note, however, there remains significant differences between the two that will forever separate them in the annals. Perhaps without the small, seemingly backward steps of Clinton, Bush might not have been able to begin the first [...]

School to Guardsman: Pay Up!

What is up with this crap?
GRAND RAPIDS — A Michigan school district told a teacher activated for military duty that he must cover the cost of a substitute during part of his absence and give the district some of his military pay.

How is that even, you know, legal? Isn’t military duty covered by state [...]

Jobless Claims Down…Again

It seems that the Bush slump is finally ending. The Clinton/Gore economy is back!
The Labor Department reported Thursday that for the week ending Nov. 15, new claims for jobless benefits declined by a seasonally adjusted 15,000 to 355,000. For seven straight weeks claims have been below the 400,000 mark, suggesting that the job market [...]

Partial-Birth Detachment

An abortionist’s letter to Slate is astoundingly lifeless and cold, clinically describing some of the procedures he has used to perform abortions and wondering whether the new Partial-Birth Abortion Ban that Bush is expected to sign will affect him and his practice. He asks whether those procedures are in violation of the new bill [...]

Hillary On Bush

I meant to post this the other day, but somehow lost track of it in the thick of things. I’m still trying to figure out the political angle here, but in the meantime, the facts are these: Hillary Clinton is (surprise, surprise) defending Bush’s stance on Iraq and WMD’s.

“The intelligence from Bush 1 to [...]

More Gay Marriage Thoughts

Andrew Sullivan has it all wrong. I’m sorry, but just because gays can’t get “married” doesn’t mean they’re being marginalized by society. Of course, this is an argument that has been used by the gay rights groups for the last thirty years to advance their cause. They falsely assume that marriage is [...]