“Getting Out” the Vote
by This’ll discourage ’em: In Louisville, poll worker Jeffery Steitz was arrested and charged with assault and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter …
Category: Politics
Ortega Redux!
Evidently democracy can’t be forced after all… This is hilarious on one level and telling on another. All signs point to a declining American influence …
NeoCon Visions
I read Polimom’s blog every day thanks to the miracle of RSS. Yesterday she wrote a bit of a rant against the so-called NeoCons’ vision …
Tortured Suspects Not to be Allowed to Talk
According to the Washington Post: The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed …
I Hope Kerry Refuses to Apologize
This thing with John Kerry and his alleged disrespect for American troops is ridiculous. Here’s what he said: “You know, education — if you make …
Judges Shouldn’t Be “Lifers”
Federal Judge James Munley has temporarily denied Hazelton, PA, the right to enforce a new local law that would: Fine landlords found to be renting …
Jon Swift: Smarmy Enough to Make Me Ill
Jon Swift’s return fire to Rush Limbaugh is brilliant. And disgusting. This is feel-good intellectual superiority at its worst. Smarmy, it seems, is back in …
Peggy Noonan on the Election
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal says, among other things: Republicans, most of whom are conservative in at least general ways, and who endure …
Lou Dobbs Thinks Illegal Immigration is Bad
Read all about it. I like this snippet: Illegal aliens are an important part of a one trillion-dollar underground economy in America, according to Barron’s. …
Our Upcoming Election
Polimom writes about something that’s always gnawed at me. The polarized 2-party system we have in this country doesn’t allow enough candidates whose views are …