As with every other holiday, Memorial Day has become just another excuse to have a White Sale, go to the beach, or just pound some Budweiser like a real red-blooded American does. Expecting an ADD nation to remember much more than their PIN number is asking a lot, and remembering fallen soldiers, who most […]
On my last trip to the east coast, it was remarkable how poor the roads were. Growing up in Pittsburgh, potholes were a yearly ritual and you could tell where the important people lived by which ones were filled. The last car I owned suffered a pathetic demise in a hole big enough […]
First lady Laura Bush would defeat U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if the two were to face each other in the 2008 presidential contest.
The above statement came to us via a Reuters article on Monday. Was it some new polling? The analysis of a prominent nonpartisan political scientist?
Nope, just Dick Cheney. Good […]
It’s really a toss-up for most ridiculous Tom Coburn moment of his brief tenure in the U.S. Senate.
His warnings about rampant lesbianism in Oklahoma schools will always be the sentimental favorite, seeing as how it was the one that put him on the map.
But them came his enthusiastic support for breast implants, going so far […]
When seven Republicans joined seven Democrats earlier this week to create a compromise on judicial nominations and filibuster use, another layer of intrigue was added to the debate over John Bolton’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The nature of such compromise agreements are usually less clear than they appear on […]
President George W. Bush on Iraq, shortly before invading:
…I’m a patient man. And when I say I’m a patient man, I mean I’m a patient man…
President George W. Bush today on his frustrations with Congress
I’m getting a little tired of waiting on an energy bill.”
No time like the present for another $8 billion in tax […]
The President’s Social Security roadshow continued this week with a pre-screened, Stepford audience, this time in Rochester, NY:
Tickets allowing lucky audience members inside to hear the president at the school were colored red, blue or gold.
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James Bock, 12, of Livonia, Livingston County, and five members of his family learned they had “golden” tickets, which mean […]
The level of bombast surrounding the stem cell legislation currently moving through Congress keeps getting better and better. Just two days ago, we mentioned the controversy and the contradictions inherent in the arguments of the legislation’s opponents, who complain about embryos being used for stem cell research when those very same embryos are being discarded […]
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Haaaa haaaa!”
I have a strong dislike for Senator John McCain that is tied to his popularity among Democrats who don’t understand his real voting record. He is a capable politician who knows how to get his name in the papers by taking outspoken stands on […]
Since its first use in the late Seventies, countless couples have depended on the technique of in vitro fertilization in order to become parents. The procedure, in which an embryo is created in a laboratory environment before being placed into the prospective mother’s uterus, has been used in the creation of an estimated 20,000 babies […]
