A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
Not really; actually Jamie Gorelick was its principal architect, and now it seems she’s on track to be our next Attorney General. In the bad old days, AG Ashcroft operated under the principle of “don’t let it happen again, John.” Now, courtesy of Change, we get the very person whose infamous “wall” helped [...]
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Nancy Pelosi argues that Californians who voted for Proposition 8 were too dumb to know that a “Yes” vote on Proposition 8 was a vote against gay marriage rather than a vote for it. Somehow, that doesn’t translate into any Californians who voted against 8 having been equally uninformed and assuming that a “No” [...]
James Joyner drinks the anti-Palin Kool-Aid and eagerly accepts as fact the most outlandish claims of certain former McCain campaign operatives. Beldar goes to the opposite extreme of bashing not only the operatives themselves, for spewing that crap, or even Joyner, for believing it, but Carl Cameron of FoxNews for even reporting on it [...]
Via Sebastian, President-elect Obama is asking readers what kind of change we need. It can’t hurt to tell them. It probably won’t help, either, but what the hell.
Via TGirsch, Daniel Larison drinks the anti-Palin Kool-Aid, noting that while snarky comments from disgruntled staffers should be taken with a grain of salt:
Obviously, we should take what disgruntled McCain staffers dish to reporters with a grain of salt. They have an agenda, and part of it is to make her look even worse [...]
Insta /a> and Say ask why the stock market has done so poorly since Obama was elected. Day 1 I chalked up to coincidence, as the market had fared reasonably well on Election Day itself, and surely investors weren’t in Limbaughesque denial about how the election was going to go? But after a [...]
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Patterico charitably describes President-elect Obama as a good man who holds bad ideas. I agree with half of that proposition, but unlike Jeff Goldstein am content simply to describe Patterico’s position as wrong rather than dishonest. It’s all reminiscent of TGirsch basically calling me a liar for not buying his quaint theory that [...]
Now that freedom is cool in France but passé in the States, what are we supposed to call that delicacy known as chips in Britain? Hope fries? Change fries? Bitter-clinger fries? Economic justice fries? What?
Conventional wisdom is that Democrats own the economy, so when the financial market tanked, the race belonged to Obama. This is not because Obama or any other Democrats have actually done anything useful or productive to, um, help the economy. No, they “own” it because they on that issue, they stand for “doing [...]
The rule of law appears to have prevailed in CA, with Prop 8 passing by a not that narrow margin. Right now it looks like Norm Coleman may have edged out Stuart Smalley, though by a margin so narrow as to make the recount look like a tossup at best. We need Ted [...]
As of this writing, it is unclear whether Obama will carry the Tarheel State or whether Stuart Smalley will unseat Norm Coleman, but no matter how you slice it, the Democrats had a blowout. Obama won by a landslide. Kay Hagan probably didn’t deserve to win, but Elizabeth Dole clearly deserved to lose, [...]
Starbucks got starbucked for offering a free “tall” (small) coffee to anyone who says he voted. Apparently that’s, um, illegal, so now they’re offering a free “tall” (small) coffee to anyone who asks for one. Which makes me feel a bit silly typing this at a local Starbucks with a fancy-schmanzy conservatives-aren’t-supposed-to-drink-this-crap coffee [...]
I’ma join the team o’lawyers to help Palin and McCain steal the vote in the Tar Heel state, so I’ll be out of pocket for most of the day. All y’all might could weigh in in my absence, though.
And for those who haven’t voted yet, or are likely to talk to people who haven’t, [...]
Mrs. X is a registered independent so she gets all the Democrat junk mail I don’t get. One of my faves was a mailer alleging that Women Are Paid Just 77 Cents for Every Dollar a Man Makes (caps theirs, oddly enough). Aside from the inherent irony of Obama raising that issue against [...]
George Will offers a brilliant reminder of why I stopped reading George Will years ago. In his latest screed he writes:
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism.
As opposed to Real Conservatism practiced by whom? Patrick Buchanan? Andrew Sullivan? Will’s [...]
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I’m really not sure which is dumber, Elizabeth Dole’s “Godless” ad against Kay Hagan or the fact that Hagan is suing over it. Between this and the Obama campaign’s threats against TV stations running the NRA ads against him, I have to wonder if freedom of speech is just another one of those failed [...]
Not according to their latest three-day poll, and a 1% lead is inside the margin of error anyway, but any way you slice it, a single day of McCain up 48-47 is a clearly positive sign for McCain. It sure would be a bummer if McCain ended up winning by a squeaker on Election [...]
Not according to their latest three-day poll, and a 1% lead is inside the margin of error anyway, but any way you slice it, a single day of McCain up 48-47 is a clearly positive sign for McCain. It sure would be a bummer if McCain ended up winning by a squeaker on Election [...]
Snopes “debunks” the “myth” that any Fannie Mae advisers had anything to do with Barack Obama campaign had an/Freddie “myth.” Must be seen to be disbelieved. Coming next:
CLAIM: Barrack Obama attended Trinity Lutheran Church for 25 years, during which it’s preacher, Hezekiah Cartwright, reportedly screamed “God damn the USA” and accused the [...]
Since last week, the Huffington Post has a gleaming tribute to their late reporter cum murderer Carol Anne Burger, of whom they gush:
The circumstances of her death remain unclear; police believe she may have taken her own life after learning that her roommate - and former partner - had been found dead.
Um, yeah. That’s [...]
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