Month: July 2008

Andrew K. McCain, son of Arizona senator and GOP presidential candidate John McCain, has resigned two high posts in the banking industry. Shares of Silver State Bancorp, of which Andrew…

Richard Perle is looking into an oil deal in Iraq. Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein…

This is a tough one. One the one hand we have Gene Reed who has 25 years of experience and all the insidery connections that go along with that and…

Former Republican John Atkins and Democrat Barbara Lifflander met last night in a debate sponsored by the Delaware Manufactured Homeowners Association.   Besides Carney-Markell and Lee-Protack, this primary is one of the more interesting ones in the state.  As we all know, Mr. Atkins formerly represented this district as a Republican from 2003 until 2007.   But on one fateful evening in late October 2006, Mr. Atkins drove back from Secrets in Ocean City, Maryland intoxicated, was pulled over by the Maryland police, and he used his General Assembly credentials to escape getting thrown in jail.   The ethical consequences of that move, along with other sordid allegations of spousal abuse and the bribery of babysitters forced Mr. Atkins to resign in 2007 lest the House take formal action to remove him.

Barbara Lifflander was Mr. Atkin’s opposition in 2004 and 2006, and she ran in the special election to replace him in 2007 but lost to Republican Greg Hastings.  Now in 2008, Atkins wants his job back.   But, for some reason, he does not want to challenge Mr. Hastings in a primary.   Instead, he wants to deceive his constituents and register as a Democrat so that he can challenge Hastings in the general election.   Now, this is a deep mystery to me, because Atkins’ basic selling point on running to return to his old job is that he has deep contacts within the community and knows how to work Dover and the state government agencies so as to provide excellent constitutent services.   Now, that is Atkins’ only argument for his campaign.   But it is an argument that can help win in a Republican primary just as it can help him win a general election.    Nevertheless, Atkins has registered as Democrat, and is has filed as Democrat for this race.

If McCain drops out of the race, who will the GOP pick to be the nominee? 

Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes 

Just think of all the stupidty and anti-factual BS we have to contend with on this very blog. That willing stupidity and calavier cruelty originates in the human heart -…

I think I have opened things up before with a sentence similar to the one I’m about to use right now. We have all had our fun. We have had a great laugh. Liberalgeek made a funny and we all laughed. Hahahohohehe.

Still waiting.

Al notes: ...the motive of the Tennessee church gunman is now known: He hated liberals and targeted the Unitarian church because of its liberal social attitude. “It appears that what…

Does not giving a crap if someone is dying and having nothing good to say about "said" dying person make you a bad person?

This Novak stuff got me thinking about Lee Atwater, the Henry Ford of modern day Republican smears and dirty tricks.

Turns out Atwater, when faced with death from a brain tumor, decided that lying, smearing political adversaries, degrading the national dialogue and poisoning the well of American politics was a bad idea.

This sheds a new light on the hit and run accident. And while I may not have agreed on a single issue with Robert Novak, I am always* saddened by…