When I was in high school, I worked as a "courtesy clerk" (aka bagger) at the Alpha Beta store in La Mesa. One of the nicest guys working there was a big, black guy named Reggie. Reggie was in charge of receiving, so he spent most of his days in the back, but occasionally he […]
Not content to have a nice, juicy political steak to munch on in the form of disgraced former GOP Rep. Mark Foley, the Democrats today took serious steps toward trying to corral an entire herd of cows -- it may be more than they swallow. Several Democrats, as tone deaf as their GOP counterparts, came […]
The Democrat Party has been big on "rights" for decades. The "right" to affordable healthcare. The "right" to a "living" wage. If you name it, and it's a good thing, then dangit, you have a "right" to have it. These "rights" are never limited to U.S. citizens, when Democrats speak of them, they are, at […]
I'm sure you're tired of it -- I know I am -- but former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing had an excellent piece on "the Plame kerfuffle" in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Toensing takes ambassador Joseph Wilson, journalist David Corn, leaker Richard Armitage and prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald to the woodshed over the giant nothing which was […]
I've often accused -- with good reason -- Democrats (Joe Lieberman excepted) of not being serious when it comes to terrorism and national security. The Democrats' recent "demand" on President Bush to: (1) transitioning the U.S. mission in Iraq to counter-terrorism, training, logistics and force protection; (2) beginning the phased redeployment of U.S. forces from […]
The headline was made famous by Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" show after he was informed that one of his predictions for the outcome of an experiment was woefully inaccurate. The editors of the New York Times seem to have taken Savage's attitude to heart when it comes to the former ambassador Joseph […]
It's been nearly a week since The Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff revealed that the original leaker of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity was Richard Armitage -- and that said leak was not part of an effort by the White House at payback for her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, blowing the whistle […]
You may not have heard it called that, but you've heard about it. Godwin's law basically states that as any Internet discussion progresses, the probability of someone invoking the Nazis approaches a certainty. Unfortunately this problem has reached the airwaves. First you had MSNBC's Keith Olbermann giving a Nazi salute (while holding up a Bill […]
The Senate race in Pennsylvania may be the first indication that a change is in store for American politics. Bob Casey Jr., the state's treasurer and son of one of the few prominent pro-life Democrats in recent decades, is running against conservative GOP firebrand Rick Santorum. When the race started, Casey held a comfortable lead […]