Here you go: 12-11-1. Special election to fill congressional vacancy–Time of election of representative. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a senator or representative in the United States Congress it shall be the duty of the Governor within ten days of the occurrence, to issue a proclamation setting the date of and calling for a special election for … Read More
Obama Winning Over The Right
Rich Lowry over at NRO’s The Corner takes reads right-winger emails, reflecting on Obama’s performance on Monday Night Football: —I watched the Bears game with my father & wife’s grandfather in Dupage County Illinois. Unlike the rest of America we know how to vote. (Have fun in Washington Congressman Peter Roskam!) Both my father & my wife’s grandfather starting voting … Read More
Tom Delay.com
Tom Delay started a blog. Here’s why: I have created this blog in order to provide Americans with a new meeting place where such opinions and viewpoints might be better shared, discussed and debated; a place where conservative and traditionalist Americans might speak truth to power and to one another. How successful was this viewpoint-sharing project of Tom’s? Well, It … Read More
Ba-rockstar Obama
Obama fevor hit New Hampshire, as the not-so-dark horse nominee for the 2008 presidency. By all indications, this guy is carrying something very special — not seen in politics in decades: "I’ve never seen anything like it," said Jim Demers, a lobbyist and former Democratic lawmaker who met Obama at the airport Saturday night and accompanied him throughout the events … Read More
Mark Foley Report
Ethics Report says that the House Ethics Committee didn’t break any rules, but still were negeligent in not protecting the House pages from the very creepy Mark Foley. The full Ethics Report is here, but if you want to read 104 pages of AOL instant messages from Mark Foley, go straight here (PDF format). And emails here (also PDF format). … Read More
Even My Libertarianish Mom Likes Him
Obama fever hits the Granite State: W hen Sen. Barack Obama takes to the stage in Manchester on Sunday afternoon, he will look out at a sell-out crowd of more than 1,500. Audience members will have traveled from 13 different states, including South Carolina and Virginia. Of the 150 journalists covering the event, a handful will be from as far … Read More
Congress To Work Five Days A Week
Yup. Democrats think that our elected representatives should work harder, and that has some Republicans throwing a fit: Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to […] "Keeping us up here … Read More
Prager v. Ellison, Part Two
Shorter Dennis Prager: You know this controversy that came at my suggestion that Rep. Keith Ellison (a Muslim) get sworn in to Congress by using the Bible rather than his holy book, the Kuran? It would all go away if Rep. Ellison simply does what I suggested. Earlier posts: Dennis Prager: Clueless About America UPDATE: World o’Crap provides another shorter … Read More
Recommended Reading
Chris Kelly talks about the movie Stalag 17 and the Geneva Conventions Bush: The Worst President In U.S. History? Douglas Brinkley opens the discussion ("yes") and is joined by Columbia Historian Eric Foner, who echos the sentiment; Bob Cessna weighs in — of course, The Rolling Stone addressed this months ago Why is everyone writing about the use of the … Read More
Bush Goes Way Out On A Limb
The Decider: "I think any time you murder somebody, you’re a criminal."
Dennis Prager: Clueless About America
A view days ago, I linked to a debate between an noted agnostic and evangelical columnist Dennis Prager on the subject of the existence of God. The debate was civilized and I bent over backwards to give Prager as much credit as I could possibly muster (even though his best argument for the existence of God boiled down to "It’s … Read More
The Bush Presidential Library
The Bush Presidential Library? The jokes write themselves. But Arianna Huffington does a good job writing them too: Comedy writers and lovers of the absurd all across America have a bounce in their step today, buoyed by news that President Bush is looking to raise half-a-billion dollars to build his legacy-burnishing presidential library. The idea of Uncurious George building a … Read More
Confirmed
I present without comment: Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush. Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during … Read More
Barack Obama: Smoker
In this day and age, can a candidate become President if he smokes? Why not? Laura Bush smokes. Read more.
A Good Barack Obama Story
A small time writer for the Henry (Ga.) Daily Harold wrote this the other day: Obama owes me an apology I don’t care, I’m not changing my mind on this one. Nope. I don’t like Sen. Barack Obama. He might make a good president some day, but he won’t get my vote. At least not until he apologizes. Some might … Read More