I take back everything bad I have ever said about John McCain: “If anyone came to my hometown in Phoenix, AZ and set off a bomb on a bus and killed 18 people and injured 100 of them, my citizens would expect us to respond,” US Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, told reporters in answer to …
Death of the Boomer Left?
Via Michael Totten, this interesting post by Sean LaFreniere: A political conversation with Boomer lefties these days is like a conversation with (a tomb)stone. They never give my comments serious consideration. They simply repeat a few of the latest chestnuts (the Jessica Lynch story was overblown, where are the WMD, its all about oil, and …
You Got Off Light, Dick
I don’t know what to make of this: The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic …
WTF?
This will go over like a lead balloon: Sen. John Breaux expects to wrap up a bipartisan agreement soon to reform Medicare using private insurance plans and then, he said, he is ready to begin persuading his centrist colleagues on Capitol Hill to support the idea of mandatory health insurance for all Americans. The Louisiana …
Good News In Iraq
Via Tacitus, we see there is some good news coming out of Iraq: In a city so sacred that its soil is used to make the stones on which Shiites bow their heads in prayer, the American occupation of Karbala — 1,110 U.S. troops in a city of 500,000 — has emerged as a rare …
Jerks
With all the talk about Hillary Clinton, I should point out that immature, childish, jerk-like behavior is not limited to Democrats: Idaho Sen. Larry Craig cleared the way for the Senate to approve the promotions of 127 Air Force captains and majors, but will continue to stall promotions of higher-ranking officers in a showdown over …
Kinda Neat
I thought this was neat: Hey, how about this! We were just notified by True Majority.Org, run by Ben and Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Ben Cohen, that TalkLeft has won a blogging award for being one of their top 25 favorite blogs. They are sending us a case of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. I …