Well then. Wasn’t that just speshul? Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin dished out the nastiness and the lies and the personal attacks with a giant spoon last night. My take on it: * Romney is trying to be Ronald Reagan so hard that it’s actually painful to watch. Oh, and he fails, too.* Huckabee was a […]

I have completely HAD it with people crying “SEXISM!” any time a female candidate running for President or Vice President is criticized or attacked. Hillary Clinton’s campaign did it when she got hammered (despite her own hammering ways) and now the McCain campaign is doing it to defend Sarah Palin. The McCain camp is pushing back hard against the notion […]

George Bush this last night at the Republican Convention: “If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain’s resolve,” President Bush said in a brief satellite-linked address to the Republican National Convention here last night, “you can be sure the angry Left never will.” Angry? Hell yeah. The Republicans, led by Bush and Cheney and their morally bankrupt administration have […]

Senator McCain abruptly canceled an appearance on CNN’s Larry King show tonight. Why? Because they dared to do this to his vice-presidential pick: Temper, temper, Senator. I’m just sayin’…

A week ago, Gallup had McCain up by 2. Today, down by 8: It’s also the first time either of them has hit 50%. Rasmussen has him at 51%. Also, I had read that some bloggers were questioning whether or not Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, was the actual mother of the baby she had in April, Trig. What I […]

This is over the top stuff right here, kids. My friend, Doug, a former inhabitant of the Twin Cities, sent me a link to Glen Greenwald’s reporting for Salon.com on multiple raids that have happened over the past couple of days of peaceful protesters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for the Republican National Convention. Greenwald’s most excellent (and multiply-updated) Salon […]

If you think that Sarah Palin is a good choice for Senator McCain to make as his vice-presidential running mate, answer me this question: “If Sarah Palin were a man with her same credentials, would McCain have chosen him?”Your answer to that question pretty much says all that needs to be said with regard to this transparently pandering choice. Republicans […]

I’m stunned. Really. Stunned. How fucking stupid is this guy? McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters. He’s going to hang out in New Orleans all week as it gets slammed by a Category 5 hurricane […]

Guess who didn’t have a passport until last year. Ayup. Vice Presidential Nominee, Sarah Palin. Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States. In July 2007, she had to get a passport before she visited members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait, according to her deputy communications director, Sharon Leighow. She also visited wounded […]

Focus on the Family douchebag and digital media director for Focus on the Family’s “Focus Action”, Stuart Shepard, sent out a YouTube plea that people pray for rain on the night of Senator Obama’s acceptance speech. In fact, not just rain but “Abundant rain. Torrential rain. Urban and small stream flood advisory rain.” Unfortunately for them, God heard their prayers […]

This bit of awesome prose was recently put out on the internets. See if you can figure out from whence it came. We will not ship away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far off countries, or detain without trial or charge prisoners who can and should be brought to justice for their crimes, or maintain […]