President-elect Barack Obama senior adviser David Axelrod was on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday and had this to say: [Fox News Sunday host Chris] WALLACE: Let's turn to the national security team that President-elect Obama is expected to announce after Thanksgiving. And again, let's look at the key leading players. FOX has confirmed that Hillary Clinton […]
The class was AG301 and one of the general education requirements at Cal Poly SLO. The class was three times a week and consisted of two classroom lectures (Mondays and Wednesdays) and a "field trip" each Friday. The field trips could be eye-opening for kids like me whose encounters with farming was limited to seeing […]
Cal Poly No. 3-ranked FCS football team would've beaten a mediocre, but bowl-bound Wisconsin if kicker Andrew "Mudd" Gardner hadn't missed three extra points. However, the 36-35 OT loss may have been enough to earn Cal Poly a playoff seed and the two home games (providing they win the first) that comes with it. The […]
Earlier this month I wrote that if President-elect Obama and his wife decided to send his daughters to a public school in the Washington, D.C. area, I'd have a minor heart attack. Well, no worries for my ticker: Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter confirms to CNN the Obama daughters will attend Sidwell Friends school in Washington, […]
This week's big dummies are Rick Wagoner, Robert Nardelli and Alan Mulally, the CEOs of GM, Chrysler and Ford respectively. They earn this award for being too stupid to realize that it might look bad if you flew to Washington in a private, luxury jet, to beg for money from the taxpayers. It's no wonder […]
The CIA inspector general released a report today showing that the agency was reckless in how it managed a drug-interdiction program with the government of Peru. The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal […]
Far too many Obama supporters see him as some sort of saint. This causes them to say some really ridiculous things. Former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, who famously tossed his credibility in the dustbin to ally himself with the Democrats had this to say about Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri's missive on the president-elect: […]
Ted Stevens has lost his Senate seat. If the self-important, pompous jerk had thought more of his principles or his party, he would've retired and let a Republican win a seat that only a convicted felon could lose. Now Alaska, a solid Republican state, has a Democrat representing it for the next six years. Stevens, […]
Rep. Barney Frank's understanding of what "viable" means is a little tenuous. A Key Democrat says a House auto industry bailout would require that U.S. automakers immediately repay $25 billion in government loans next year if they can't show they're financially viable. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is drafting the plan, said it would forbid […]
Michael Lewis, author of Liars Poker, has an article in the latest issue of Portfolio that is an excellent explanation of the whole mortgage meltdown mess. This is a must-read for anyone interested in how we got where we are today. I think, if asked, Lewis could come up with a list of people who […]