Sowing rogue quotes

It appears that among the great many things Sarah Palin does not know is the difference between former UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden and former Cheyenne Indian tribal leader John Wooden Legs. Her (poorly ghostwritten and apparently unedited) book, Going Rogue, erroneously attributes this quote to the college hoops legend: Our land is everything [...]

Federal Government, version 44.0

I’m just enough of a computer geek to find this amusing.

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”

My trip to eastern North Carolina this weekend wasn’t all fun and games and pirates. I came out here to meet with a group of truckers who are organizing a union after growing fed up with having their livlihoods left to the whim of the bosses. This is a remarkable group in many ways. In [...]

Chutzpah

Joe Lieberman (Me-Myself-&-I, CT) wants to let bygones be bygones: “Now that the election is over, it is time to put partisan considerations aside and come together as a nation to solve the difficult challenges we face and make our blessed land stronger and safer,” Lieberman said in a written statement. “I pledge to work [...]

Bonfire of the Vanities

Please to remember the 5th of November.

Her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom

Change

Still waiting for the great leap forward

I voted (early) for Barack Obama. I did so in small part because, for all his limitations, an Obama administration is a less horrible prospect than the only plausible alternative, and in larger part because, having previously demonstrated my low standards by throwing away my vote on a parade of Democratic mediocrities, and facing the [...]

Hypocrites just talkin trash; Liberty and justice are a thing of the past

I wish someone would do a remix of this changing the name to “Barry”.

Hagen lawyers warn Dole over defamatory “Godless Americans” ad

Parker Poe, a Raleigh, North Carolina firm that represents Democratic Senate hopeful Kay Hagen, has sent a “cease and desist” letter to GOP incumbent Elizabeth Dole over a campaign ad linking Hagen to a group called “Godless Americans PAC“. The letter contends that the ad is false and defamatory in suggesting that Hagen has accepted [...]