Updated below The protracted folderol over Reverend Wright has done something quite important in the presidential race. America’s great but errant spotlight of high moral values has been directed so extensively, so brightly, and so carefully on Barack Obama’s relationship with him, that it has set a powerful precedent which has just begun to focus on John McCain. Hagee and …
Photo credit: Crooks & Liars Whether its tax cuts for the rich, Iraq, Iran, lobbyist love, opposition to the new bipartisan G.I. Bill– even torture– John McCain continues to morph into George W. Bush. Congressional Quarterly reports that in 2007, “Maverick” McCain supported Bush with his Senate vote 95% of the time, and thus far in 2008, a perfect 100%. …
First we get Hucklebee making funny about a gun being pointed at Obama. Then we get the Clint justifying staying in the campaign because Obama could get hisself assassinated by some hard-working white gumball. Now we get Faux Noise “contributor” Liz Fox Trotter, who supposedly recognizes Hillary Clinton’s comment was a “campaign killer,” and not a minute later coughs up …
Actor, director, Sydney Pollack has run out of time on earth at 73. You can be sure one or more of his films touched your life in a special way. For me, it was Out Of Africa. Onward and inward, Syd.
“Red Stripes” by Terry Kruger The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) stated in a 2002 Memorial Day Address, that: “Changing the date [Memorial Day is celebrated] merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.” Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, a …
David Kurtz over at TPM reports that: …the House last Thursday passed an amendment to this year’s military authorization bill mandating investigations by the DOD IG and the GAO. Democrats argued that the program amounted to illegal domestic propaganda. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called the program part of “a military-industrial-media complex” (with apologies to Eisenhower). Despite the MSM‘s continuing refusal …
Becoming the Trusting Child IN OUR SEARCH FOR THE WAY, some attitudes are more helpful than others. When you were a small child and were gently pushed ahead by your mother, you had a knowledge that you were being safely guided through the unknown. That was a spacious open faith; an intuitive trust in a being you loved. Try to …
