Playing the Race Card?

As we learned last year, any criticism of Barack Obama is racist.  Comparing him to Jesse Jackson is racist, and so is comparing him to Paris Hilton.  Calling his story about his position on Iraq a fairy tale is racist, and so is saying that he used to pal around with a terrorist.  Even using [...]

Whoa! Go Lansing, Michigan!

Virgil Bernero is his name and he is amazing.  He’s the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan.   Listen to him stick up for the working class.  It’s about time someone went on TV and said enough is enough.  Sacrifices need to come from the people who are responsible.  It is time to look up the food [...]

Gay Rights=Civil Rights

On March 5th The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the validity of the voter approved Proposition 8.  Both the Democratic Attorney General and the Republican Governor of the state are in agreement that the ballot measure should be invalidated. On January 15, 2009, 43 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Court to invalidate Prop [...]

Who Are These People?

As you probably know already, Bristol Palin did an interview with Greta Van Susteren of FOX News.  This of course caused a predictable reaction among the usual suspects.  Personally, I don’t really see what is so newsworthy about one single mother’s opinion on abstinence, but in reading some of the blog posts and comment threads on this [...]

Wednesday: Underwater

The NYTimes reports on the two groups of homeowners who may be helped by Obama’s bailout.  The first group are the subprimers who got over their heads when their mortgage payments rocketed up.  The second group may include you and me.  These are the people whose houses are no longer worth what we’ve put into [...]

Obama Keeps A Promise

The news media is all a-twitter about President Black Obama’s decision to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan, like this is something new.  All accounts suggest the decision is in response to a standing request by General David McKiernan, but, it seems more likely to be a campaign promise fulfilled.  In his own words, here’s what [...]