cold fury (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHITTLE Whittle: Many conservatives were arguing that it would be better to sit this one out, and let the country go to hell, so that we could send the Republican party a message and re-emerge from the ashes in 2012 with “the next Reagan.” I pointed out that there were two problems with this theory: First, you may [...]
Innocent Bystanders (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to Retired Geezer for pointing me towards this well-written and inspiring perspective on how Palin and McCain have undertaken to steal back the election, the Republican party, and the country. Newt Gingrich’s fire-breathing army of young reform Republicans who stormed congress in 1994 grew, in about a decade, into the party of Duke Cunningham, Trent [...]
what if? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Whittle is one of the master essayists of our time. Some quick excerpts of this piece are highlighted here. But, I truly urge you to read the entire column. Bill selects an arrow from his quiver, aims it at...
CNN (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Republicans are a gloomy lot. You show them a silver lining. They'll find a cloud.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Stephen Johnson, the E.P.A. administrator, deserves credit for killing a plan to build a pumping station in the Mississippi Delta.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
You see lots of interesting people on a convention floor, but sometimes you can't quite believe your eyes when you see Senator Trent Lott . I asked a random delegate in a Hawaiian shirt holding a camera, "Excuse me, am I crazy or is that Trent Lott?" He said, "You're not crazy!" and started beelining for my quarry. So I grabbed my stuff and cut through a bank of chairs, beating him by seconds. "Excuse...
Washington Wire (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Patrick Yoest reports on the presidential election. Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove ’s run for the U.S. Senate would seem to benefit from the record crowds and jammed polling places generated by Barack Obama presidential campaign. Obama has mounted a massive effort to increase black turnout in the South — an effort that could bear fruit for Democrats in Republican-leaning states such as Virginia...
Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Trent Lott turned up on Channel Four News and told Jon Snow that his party may have found its very own Margaret Thatcher in Sarah Palin: "I've always said that the first woman Vice President or President would not be...
Political Radar (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
ABC News' Jennifer Parker Reports: As John McCain prepares to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday night, at least one longtime GOP colleague says the Republican presidential nominee's speech won't hold a candle to Sarah Palin's speech last night. "Look, John...
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Listen to this segment | the entire program We spend the rest of the hour today looking at the future of the Republican party based on what has happened so far at the Republican National Convention. The GOP is at a major crossroads with its incumbent president having [...]
Brain Fertilizer (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Someone mentioned Hillary Clinton's, "No way. No How. No McCain." That reminded me of how horribly wooden Clinton is. I know some say she gave a good speech the other night, but in my opinion, she is a horrible speaker....
BTC News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
You don’t try very hard to please me; with what you know it should be easy … this could be the last time, this could be the last time, may be the last time, I don’t know … If I had an audience large enough, I’d make “The Last Time”, a pre-punk Rolling Stones anthem of [...]
BlogAds (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
In today’s Washington Post, Howard Kurtz wrote that Bloggers on the left and right increasingly drive media coverage by turning up the volume on questions until they are difficult to ignore. Sometimes they are right, as when they questioned what CBS’s Dan Rather said were National Guard documents in a 2004 report on President Bush’s military [...]
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters. - Politico If he wants to do a photo-op tomorrow in Mississippi, fine. Maybe he can go visit Trent Lott's house . But to give his acceptance speech from an area hit by the storm? Surely his advisers are smarter than this....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
There will be a lot of very expensive hard hitting advertising and a lot of long-winded rhetoric about whether Barack Obama has the "experience" necessary...
