Not even pretending anymore, these Republicans: Republican presidential contender Herman Cain used campaign funds to buy his own books from his motivational speaking company, Federal Election Commission records show. Although his autobiography was published by a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., Cain paid Stockbridge, Georgia-based T.H.E New Voice Inc. $36,511 for books. His campaign …
Grifters Gonna Grift
Easy Marks
You ever hear a news report about a bunch of people who were swindled and lost their life savings in an obvious scam? I’m talking about the people who lose their life savings to a Nigerian prince who emailed them and said if you just give me our bank account info I will put millions …
Sully’s Moose-ion Improbable
One more thing about the Griftzilla From Wasilla yesterday: there’s Sully’s now legendary take on Sarah Palin getting into the race as an independent Wednesday afternoon: The obvious problem is that she would all but guarantee the re-election of Barack Obama. Is she delusional and narcissistic enough to plow onward regardless? You betcha! Yeah, oops. …
NEWS FLASH- CHRIS CHRISTIE STILL NOT RUNNING
I suppose one way to keep yourself occupied instead of doing actual reporting is to spend all of your time discussing the people who aren’t running for President: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has decided not to seek the presidency, according to two associates. Mr. Christie is scheduled to announce his decision at a …
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The Moustache of Understanding — Robots!
Tom Junod, at Esquire‘s Politics Blog, picks on “Tom Friedman and the Fattening of the American Center“: … So why is the idea of the center so seductive, when the actuality of the center is so negligible? Well, it’s simple: There is status in the center. There is the opportunity to look down at people …
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Things that make Grammy laugh and laugh
The following are the results of Hot Air’s Monthly Presidential Candidate Poll Results. If you want to sully your computer with the detailed “polling results”, then you can go over here, but frankly one of us giving them hits is probably more than enough. I spent thirty seconds looking at their front page and feel …
Open Thread: Darth Cheney, Fictioneer
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) Conor Friedersdorf at the Atlantic has a pretty good thumbnail summary Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney: the Iraq war, torture, Halliburton, Ahmed Chalabi, unlimited detention of the innocent, his radical view of executive power, etc. Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, sniffs about Cheney’s “cheap shots”: “I …