Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
NHDP , on Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte: A close examination of Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte's FEC report confirms, today, that she is the candidate of Washington Republican insiders, not the people of New Hampshire. The fundraising report details approximately $100K in contributions from the PACs of DC Republicans - including Rick Santorum, John Cornyn, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell, and Jon Kyl....
The Nashville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The Mid-Tennessee Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. has announced the selection of Ryan Peebles as its new president. Peebles, a University of Southern Mississippi graduate, has more than six years of experience in the U.S. Senate, where he most recently served on a leadership team for Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona. He previously held a similar position under Mississippi Republican...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
In an obituary for Sen. Edward Kennedy, the Politico repeated the Republican claim that Kennedy's absence from the health care debate prevented lawmakers from reaching a bipartisan compromise, reporting that "Republicans complained that without Kennedy, Democrats were less willing to make the concessions needed for true compromise." Several progressive commentators have identified this talking...
Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
A respected Mississippi judge, who as a prosecutor earned acclaim for the conviction of a white supremacist in a civil rights-era murder, has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and is headed to prison. The popular Hinds County circuit judge, Robert DeLaughter, was indicted earlier this year with five felonies—including bribery and conspiracy—but the plea deal drops the four more...
Wellsy's World (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
My apologies, first off - a temporary change in working hours left me unable last week to offer comment on major events. That’s not to say that I wasn’t paying attention, so let me throw in my two cents before the slog of next week begins. The AIG bonus situation is a bit of egg on the [...]
the minor premise (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
Here's one more for the "If George Bush (or Trent Lott, or George Allen, or...) file: Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley. He bowled a 129, the president said. "That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically. It's "like the Special...
The Recliner Commentaries (Free subscription) | 03/20/2009
Was Barack Obama's comment about Special Olympics on Jay Leno offensive? You can watch the clip and vote on HotAir . It is rare for me to defend President Obama, but anyone who does public speaking will eventually say things that didn't come out right or things he or she didn't really mean. I think we need to cut him some slack on this one. I'm not so understanding about his destructive policies.
Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
CPL already noted Field Negro’s response to Shelby Steele, but I took a crack at the dude over at TAPPED today and I wanted to share. Steele’s attempts to maximize conservative white innocence got a sprinkle of John Yoo in his op-ed yesterday for the Wall Street Journal. Steele says America “suffered” in the sixties from [...]
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
The prolific and irrepressible Mickey Kaus of Slate.com has made note of a historic moment in American journalistic history. This week a major, important presidential nominee was forced to withdraw because of controversy surrounding his past associations, positions and lobbying efforts. The story boils down to this: Charles Freeman is a former career diplomat with extensive [...]
BOVARD (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the second part of my analysis of “How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused.” It is amazing how little attention was paid to the heap of evidence of torture-as-official-policy until long after Bush snared a second term. Here is a link to a permanent web page with both articles on [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
MICKEY KAUS ON CHAS FREEMAN: “During the Trent Lott scandal, if I remember right, there was speculation that the blogosphere would really have arrived when a high public official suddenly resigned over an Web-borne scandal without the scandal being mentioned in the respectable mainstream press–so if you had only read the New York Times [...]
Media Matters (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
On the March 11 edition of Fox News' Your World , Neil Cavuto hosted former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to discuss energy policy but failed to disclose that Lott is now a lobbyist for major energy companies. During the segment, Lott touted the Republican proposal to "[g]ive incentives" to oil and gas companies and criticized proposals such as tax increases that would offer "disincentives"...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Life in DC was exciting for about two and a half seconds when Brad Pitt visited in order to make out with Nancy Pelosi in her private chambers. Oh and then Richard Gere popped by also, which nobody cared about so much. Has Richard Gere been in a movie where ...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
This is a shocker: A proposed bill that would take power from Catholic priests and bishops and turn it over to parishioners has sparked outrage among church leaders, criticism from opposition lawmakers and questions about its legality. "You cannot tell...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Senators Trent Lott and John Breaux, founding partners of the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, announced today that Manny Rossman has joined the Leadership Group, a bipartisan
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