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Kentucky Republican Rep. Geoff Davis needs to think twice about the words he uses. U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a "snake oil salesman" [at a Northern Kentucky Lincoln Day dinner]. He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated […]

Just got done watching Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, the House majority whip, on CNN's "Situation Room." Host Wolf Blitzer asked Clyburn about move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to change the rules to effectively table the Colombian free trade agreement. Clyburn said he approved of the move and that the President was wrong to send […]

Boston-area cable TV channel CN8 has an anchor named Barry Nolan. Nolan doesn't much like Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly. CN8’s Barry Nolan says Fox News bigfoot Bill O’Reilly is “a mental case,” and Nolan’s crazy mad that the local Emmy Awards will honor Mr. No Spin Zone at their 31st annual back-slapfest next month. […]

Do politicians -- even ex-politicians -- every really listen or understand the words that are coming out of their mouths. Yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," former Sen. Tom Daschle, the national co-chair of the Barack Obama campaign, had the following to say. This is a man who understands when you go to an emergency room […]

The Union-Tribune's bi-monthly book sale for charity netted me former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg's latest book "Crazies to the left of me; Wimps to the right" in paperback. The book is a quick, breezy read, that basically lays out Goldberg's personal politics and beliefs. Republicans, and even Joe Lieberman-style Democrats will find much to agree […]

You know the Democrats have gone way out on a limb when The New York Times editorial page says the Democratic Congress should approve the Colombian free trade agreement. Predictably, however, the Times puts the blame for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rewriting of the rules equally on the Democrats and President Bush. Well, you can't have […]

Al Gore gave an update of his bogus "Inconvenient Truth" slideshow presentation at the close of the RSA computer security conference today -- on the condition that the press not be allowed in. So, since there's no video of Gore's updated global warming scaremongering, I present to you this lecture from a second-rate scientist in […]

Dan Rather suffered a setback today when a judge threw out most of his lawsuit against CBS after his firing in the wake of the fraudulent documents used as the basis for a hit piece on President George W. Bush. Unfortunately, too much of the media either (wrongly) assumes that everyone remembers what all the […]

Matthew DeBord is a writer in Los Angeles...and an idiot.

You would think that with Democrats so concerned with the perceptions of the United States by people overseas that they'd try to avoid doing anything to make what they already see as a serious problem by making it worse. Of course, you would be wrong. The U.S. has one really good ally in South America, […]