David Kurtz' post, rightly questions Governor Palin's assertion that Vice Presidential candidates are not expected to have met any foreign leaders. (I suspect the current president might have had thin experience in this area, but he should hardly be a...
Cross-post from DailyKosThere must really be a playbook. Just like any football team, the Karl Rove Republican Party, seems to always run the same plays. And they often work.They work best when aimed at the men and women who report...
Cross-post from DailyKosThere must really be a playbook. Just like any football team, the Karl Rove Republican Party, seems to always run the same plays. And they often work.They work best when aimed at the men and women who report...
cross post from DailyKosI have admired John McCain for many years. When he went after the tobacco lobbyists in the 1990s, when he fought his own party on the need for campaign finance reform, when he attacked his own party...
Josh continues to want to beat this horse, so to speak, and, maybe there is something there, but I suspect not and attacking her for this plays into the hands of those trying to bill their ticket as "reformers."As can...
Not much time to post today, so if you were relying on me to fill you on last night, while perhaps enjoying the Red Sox demolition derby or any number of other August diversions, I apologize. This one will have...
I guess you can't always get on that Most Recommended list, at least for too long. I will try again, here, though, with another cross post from Daily KosThis time, it may be necessary to fill some of you as...
I guess you can't always get on that Most Recommended list, at least for too long. I will try again, here, though, with another cross post from Daily KosThis time, it may be necessary to fill some of you as...
Yesterday's post, somewhat improved when I beefed it up at Daily Kos, got on the "most recommended" list, embolding me to try again with this little item, also crossposted at DK.If you were sleeping, on vacation or had to go...
What was it about Senator Clinton that appealed to you?Was it her desire to make an open ended commitment to remain in Iraq "until we win" whatever that means? If so, you misunderstood her.Was it her belief that we ought...
Cross posted from Daily Kos:During the early part of the endless campaign to succeed the worst president in memory, it was clear, even to <a href="http://edsbarth.blogspot.com/2008/03/losing-it.html">this idiot</a>, that Senators Dodd and Biden were the most knowledgeable about what this country...
This is something of a cross-post from DailyKos:It really isn't (on my mind) all that much, but the headline, though too obvious to be used, was still too tempting to be ignored. Still, I think my grandmother was born there;...
It was 34 years ago yesterday, and, despite its historical significance there was no mention of this anniversary, nor the obvious parallels between what we expect to happen this election year and the “liberation” that Americans of all political stripes...
What’s the Matter with Kansas may have been an impossible book to read, but its central point is unassailable: In a country filled with the profoundly stupid, emails spreading lies and commercials arguing ridiculous things, instead of debating our future...
After last week’s adventure in craziness, watching my "team" descend into the same hysteria that Limbaugh and (I love Keith’s name for him) Bill-o the Clown propagates, I announced that I could not consort with the sort of seriously bonkers...
My copy of the New Yorker was in my mailbox when I arrived home Tuesday night. I have been receiving the New Yorker for about 30 years after reading Brendan Gill’s book about it, and deciding that my mother (who...
I love the Fourth of July. It may be my favorite holiday, and not because of fireworks, since I am neither a fireworks or bombs bursting in air sort of guy. (On the other hand, the advent of the internet...
An STR reporting that the governor of a large state is laundering tens of thousands of dollars, even if a small amount for a drug operation or one of the typical reasons for doing so, must raise the eyebrow of...
