October 2, 2008
Nancy Boyda debated Lynn Jenkins. Boyda is the first-term Congresswoman who beat Jim Ryun last year. Jenkins is the Kansas state treasurer, and a former state legislator:
One of their sharpest exchanges occurred when answering a question about the federal minimum wage. Last year, Congress…
October 2, 2008
Having been mocked for claiming global warming is being rejected by a standard which would also make gravity a theory in crisis, DaveScot is going back to the same well, claiming that ID is winning the battle because it has more people searching for it than made up terms like "theological evolution…
October 1, 2008
The inimitable DaveScot, lord of Billy Dembski's blog, thinks that "Public Interest in Global Warming [has] Evaporate[d]."
I've added an item to his graph:
By this same standard, you'd find a decline in interest in gravity, which has generated almost identical number of searches as global warming…
September 30, 2008
Noted without comment:
COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this -- to stay informed and to understand the world?
PALIN: I've read most of…
September 29, 2008
Obama's big bet on Nevada:
a secret weapon for the Democrats may be the legions of Bay Area liberals who have been making weekend migrations to Reno to canvass for Obama. Although the Obama campaign was cagey about the numbers, Alise Moss, 53, a healthcare consultant from Sparks, Nev., who has…
September 29, 2008
Jonathan Martin's Blog: In reintroduction, Palin to do more interviews and "tell her story" - Politico.com:
Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.
The [anonymous] Palin…
September 29, 2008
With a majority of Democrats in favor of it and a majority of Republicans against it, the financial bailout plan negotiated over the weekend failed in the House.
Not being an economist, I can't say that the plan was good or bad, but the consensus of smart people I'm reading seems to be that it…
September 25, 2008
Max Blumenthal visits Palin's church, and discusses her endorsement by a latter-day Cotton Mather:
Muthee gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claiming that he defeated a local witch, Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, thus liberating his town from sin and opening its people to the spirit…
September 25, 2008
Sarah Palin was interviewed by Katie Couric:
Couric: Would you support a moratorium on foreclosures to help average Americans keep their homes?
Palin: That's something that John McCain and I have both been discussing - whether that (pause) is part of the solution or not. You know, it's going to be…
September 25, 2008
This Friday at 9, you have two thinks you can do. First, the first Presidential Debate. Unless John McCain chickens out gets lost in the Senate office he hasn't seen in over 100 days is so befuddled that he forgets whether Mississippi rejoined the Union decides that he can't both run for office…
September 23, 2008
In a move that would shock anyone asleep for the past 7 years, the EPA won't limit rocket fuel in U.S. drinking water:
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country.…
September 23, 2008
A poll on the national economy found literally no one who thinks that the national economy is getting better. 0%
Of course, they didn't poll John McCain, who is so out of it that he thinks the economy is pretty strong.
Bear in mind here that 25% of Americans think the sun orbits the earth.
September 21, 2008
A friend cc:ed me on a letter to his Congressman, and I think he's basically right about the Wall Street bailout. He writes Congress:
Please say NO. The Bush Administration's proposed bailout plan is overly broad, vastly too expensive, and lacks oversight and control that is absolutely necessary…
September 19, 2008
A Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day to all yez scurvy buckets o' chum.
Accarrrrding to Ye Hill newspaper "Palin won’t say whether veep is an executive post":
Vice President Dick Cheney has said his office only partially belongs to the executive branch. Democratic vice presidential nominee…
September 19, 2008
Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Ned Ryun, the nepotistic son of Jim Ryun, a consarrrrrvative runner and formerrr Congressman lately marooned by his crew of Republican seadogs, needs a lesson in arrrrrrithmetic. Arrr nashnul debt be held by:
Japan, China, the United Kingdom and Oil…
September 18, 2008
In which I again attempt to reconstruct Sarah Palin's past positions, accounting for crustal movement.
Here are a few reasons that Palin's friends may not vote for her:
When asked to reveal something about Palin that no one knows, one woman offered, "She doesn't care for cats very much," and…
September 18, 2008
Talking Points Memo:
yesterday John McCain was interviewed on the Florida affiliate of Spanish radio network Union Radio. And in the interview McCain appeared not to know who the Prime Minister of Spain was and assumed he was some anti-American leftist leader from South America.
After the…
September 17, 2008
I don't know, but I suspect that Republicans think we Obama-voters are thinking this about the collapse of AIG and Lehman brothers:
I can't wait until President-for-life Hussein Obama X puts these people all up against the wall and expropriates their funds to pay for slave reparations.
As Atrios…
September 17, 2008
Yesterday I mentioned that Carly Fiorina, a top McCain advisor and former CEO of Hewlett Packard, had declared Sarah Palin unqualified to run a major corporation. That's not all she thinks of the Republican ticket:
Asked about that remark on MSNBC, she made the same unprompted assessment of the…
September 16, 2008
Salon.com talks to Alaskans about Sarah Palin:
"If they ask her foreign policy questions, she'll deflect them by saying something like, 'I may not know a lot about Azerbaijan, but I know a lot about my country,'" predicted [an anonymous] Democratic consultant.
But the truth, said Michael Carey,…
September 16, 2008
On the McGraw Milhaven radio program, out of St. Louis, MO, McCain advisor Carly Fiorina, former head of Hewlet Packard, said:
Milhaven: Does Sarah Palin -- John McCain obviously thinks she has the experience to become president of the United States. Do you think she has the experience to run a…
September 15, 2008
The keyboardist for Pink Floyd passed away today. He was 65, and had been through a long battle with cancer.
He wrote several of the band's famous songs, including Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them, both from Dark Side Of The Moon.
Hopes for a reunion of Pink Floyd were technically shattered…
September 12, 2008
A site called Opposingviews.com has asked the question: Does intelligent design have merit?
Defending the proposition that it does, the Disco. Inst. responds officially and through two sockpuppets: Michael Behe, and Jay Richards (both Disco. fellows). Taking the position that it doesn't, we've got…
September 12, 2008
Yesterday, Sarah Palin demanded that Charlie Gibson:
Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that.
Except, well:
Last year, she told the Fairbanks Daily News-…
September 12, 2008
In which I attempt to reconstruct obscured positions and correct for crustal movements.
John Cole points out this bit from Sarah Palin's interview:
Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin answered: “They’re our next door neighbors and you can…
September 11, 2008
This is the beginning of the 8th year in which I'll be trying to understand what happened on 9/11. The eighth year in which I'll see a news clip from September 11, 2001, and feel like crawling inside myself. The eighth year in which the there is a hole in the New York skyline, and in lower…
September 11, 2008
The Editors ask: McCain: Enemy of Israel or All Out Anti-Semite?:
The media has paid far too little attention to John McCain’s pledge in April to cut off all aid to Israel. Shortly after McCain issued that promise to completely abandon Israel, the McCain camp was forced to backtrack publicly due…
September 10, 2008
White House press secretary Dana Perino explains why the Bush/McCain team have yet to catch Osama bin Laden:
So there are human limitations to any -- this is not the movies, we don't have superpowers.
But it doesn't take superpowers. It takes intelligence, and an intelligent approach to pursuing…
September 10, 2008
Speaking in Lebanon, Virginia yesterday, Barack Obama went after John McCain's policies:
"John McCain says he's about change, too," Obama said, leading into a string of ways he contends McCain represents more of the same -- economic policy, taxes, education, foreign policy, campaign tactics. "That'…
September 8, 2008
Kos wonders:
Does O'Reilly really want to maintain that the difference between Jamie Lynn and Bristol is that the Spears daughter was "running around unsupervised"? Because if O'Reilly insists that Bristol, to the contrary, was supervised, then how exactly did she get knocked up? It would follow…
