Posted on June 20, 2008 by eric
Congressional Democrats once again do what they do best: fold like a cheap suit.
After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government’s wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush’s program [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2008 by eric
Posted on May 13, 2008 by eric
I don’t know whether the CNN headline writers meant this to be a joke, but it certainly made me laugh: “Clinton focuses on West Virginia; Obama, on future“.
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by eric
I voted for Barack Obama in the North Carolina primary today. Not because I have been swept away by Obamania. To the contrary, I’m not at all convinced of Obama’s virtues.
I am, however, absolutely convinced of Hillary Clinton’s vices.
Barack Obama is not the progressive that some of his supporters naively imagine, let alone the leftist [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by eric
This video, purportedly made by Hillary Clinton supporters, is so unbelievably pathetic that I could almost believe it was really a spoof produced by the Obama campaign.
“We need a cleaning in the White House, and we need a woman to clean it up.” Right, because cleaning the house is a woman’s job.
“We don’t need no [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by eric
How did such a pinheaded little putz get a regular column in a major newspaper anyway?
(Thanks to LGM for the tip.)
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by eric
Stanford University law professor and geek hero Larry Lessig is considering a run for the House seat left open by the recent death of Tom Lantos. This video (which illustrates how Lessig is the only person in the world to make effective use of PowerPoint) outlines his agenda for a “Change Congress” movement. I just [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by eric
Posted on February 14, 2008 by eric
Pretty funny.
(Thanks to Crooked Timber for the tip.)
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by eric
Commenting on the potential significance of “Superdelegates” in this year’s presidential nomination sweepstakes, Robert Justin Lipkin (Widener Law School) asks, “Which word in “Democratic Party” does the Democratic Party not understand?” The correct answer, of course, is “both”.
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