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Category Archives: Politics

The Smart Guy, For A Change

28-Oct-08

It’s hard to believe that the 2008 presidential campaign that began almost two years ago will be over in a week.
I don’t know what I am going to do with all the free time I’ll have when I finally stop flipping between CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC in a futile nightly search for unbiased reporting. [...]

Spreading the Wealth

22-Oct-08

You have heard all this by now:
Politico: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and [...]

Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama

19-Oct-08

Many Republicans hoped to see a President Colin Powell some day. The former Secretary of State endorsed Barack Obama on Meet the Press today.

MR. BROKAW: Well, let’s move to the American presidential campaign now, if we can. We saw at the beginning of this broadcast a short tease of what you had to [...]

The Zen Question

15-Oct-08

The stock market fell more than 1,800 points last week. That wasn’t the worst thing that happened. The presidential campaign turned nasty with character attacks that threatened to tear the country apart, but that wasn’t the worst thing either. My Bocce team finished out of the playoffs; I’ll even recover from that.
The worst thing that [...]

Recklessness and Dishonesty

14-Oct-08

Christopher Buckley caused quite a stir at National Review over his recent decision to vote for Barack Obama. He ended up offering to resign from the magazine his father founded. His offer was accepted.

So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father [...]