Month: October 2008

The DOW Futures tripped the switch and were shut down this morning....wooohooooo! World markets sink; dollar at 13-year low vs. yen Wall Street Braces For Carnage Friday Morning After Overseas…

The current  James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) is so much better than every other James Bond that it is sick.   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmEfgc5aYU[/youtube]  

When the loser of an election comes out and gives some some biolerplate speech about "how the strength of the American system is our ability to transfer power peacfull and....we…

KABUL, Afghanistan — An overnight airstrike by coalition forces that Afghan authorities said killed nine Afghan Army soldiers may have been a case of mutually mistaken identity, the United States-led…

Andrew Sullivan covers a London Times piece which lays out the brewing McCain vs. Palin bitchfest: Palin remains far more popular than McCain with the Republican party base. He regularly…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdGDSpxOXE[/youtube] On the one hand you have a white trash McCarthyite who has lied to the American people at every opportunity, pretending to be a middle class hockey mom while…

Just low-income black people being told they can't vote early...no biggee, I'm sure the GOP had an awesome reason. Oh and Mike Castle is a Republican by the way.... It looks…

Which theory do you think is less dangerous to be taught in schools:  Creationism? or Conservatism?

h/t andrewsullivan[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9V_aOCga0&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/[/youtube]

Radley Balko makes the Libertarian case for why the Republicans must lose.  Mike Matthews has often stated to me that one of the reasons he is for Obama and the Democrats this time is because the Republicans must be punished for Bush.   Balko agrees, if only to get the party back to “conservative” principles Goldwater and Reagan.   Now, I think those principles have been shown to have failed spectactularly, given the current state of the economy, but at least we can agree, the Republicans must be punished.   And while the loss will allow the Republican to clean up their internal mess through a wonderous (for us) civil war, we Democrats will clean up their mess across the country.

The Republican Party has exiled its Goldwater-Reagan wing and given up all pretense of any allegiance to limited government. In the last eight years, the GOP has given us a monstrous new federal bureaucracy in the Department of Homeland Security. In the prescription drug benefit, it’s given us the largest new federal entitlement since the Johnson administration. Federal spending—even on items not related to war or national security—has soared. And we now get to watch as the party that’s supposed to be “free market” nationalizes huge chunks of the economy’s financial sector…