Follow the Money

To say it’s a slow political day, this Christmas Day, is understating it by several factors of scale.  Example… When I see CNN’s political ticker, by way of Memeorandum pointing out that President Bush gave his wife a purse for

[sticky till 12/26]

Editor’s Note: This is a time of year when I don’t envy the position of members of the cloth.

Such men and women find themselves in the position of having to write a sermon on essentially the

No, Billy…. this kind of nonsense is exactly what caused me to start steering clear of “Reason” some time ago. there is absolutely no profit whatsoever in it for me. None.

Mind you, when I say profit, I am talking

Let me first say that I’ve never been overly enthralled with Mike Huckabee and his candidacy for presidency.  He’s never struck me as overly bright individual to begin with, and his activities subsequent to announcing for the presidency, and have

From the Associated Press, B.J. Clinton called Mrs. Clinton a genius:

”The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in

Here we go again, with the nonsense about making religion, a public issue incidental to an election this time from John over at Powerline:

I’m getting really tired of the role that religion is playing in this year’s election campaign.

It’s really sad when you have to devote an entire campaign to convincing people that you are likable.  Forget the issues.  Issues aren’t important.  Whether or not people like you … now THAT’S important.  Well Hillary’s campaign is trying

I must say that I am absolutely amazed that Glenn Greenwald could possibly be this stupid.

Russ Feingold, today, on the effects of Harry Reid’s pro-administration dirty work:

This morning, the Senate starts debating legislation to expand the government’s

There’s an interesting discussion going on and just now a cross blog discussion about religion and politics.  The interested parties I’ve noticed thus far are Cassandra over at Villainous Company, and Bruce McQuain over at Q&O. In turn, the discussion

Mike Pethar over at Jawa:

This week, a battle in the gender war was won by the women. The heraldic lion on the coat of arms of the Nordic Battlegroup has been castrated.

Ouch!

The armed forces agreed to

I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end

NEW YORK —AP- Judgment Day arrived for baseball’s steroids era, with the Mitchell report set to be released and posted on the Internet for all to see.Many questions from a decade of doping will be answered, but many will remain

Billy Beck:

I have e-mailed Joe Scarborough as calmly and coolly and clearly as humanly possible, and now I’m saying it short and sharp: That disgusting microcephalic, Mika Brzezinski, must go.

Heh. Well, you keep watching PMSNBC, Billy… I

The Religion of peace rides yet again… Just down the road from me here…. Lots of coverage available to me, but this is from the Toronto Star:

A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder

Hume, last night:

Climate scientists from three American universities have published peer-reviewed research indicating global warming cannot be affected or modified by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases — and that current greenhouse computer models saying otherwise are wrong. The