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The same article I reference below contains another, unrelated line that I want to highlight as an example of politicians (and their spokespeople) saying stupid things when trying to defend the indefensible. I also spoke with Becca Doten, communications director for Los Angeles City Councilman and Democrat Richard Alarcon. Doten relayed the Councilman's response to […]

There are a wide variety of non-partisan elected offices in this country. For the most part, these offices are ones that don’t make laws, but institute policy, e.g. school boards, water and sewer districts, sheriffs, county clerks, etc. Generally, officials serving on these boards get in trouble when they decide to dabble in areas that […]

Watch this and listen closely (via QandO). Entrepreneurial apparently means let other poor working saps pay for your health insurance while you behave irresponsibly.

Here’s N.J. governor Chris Christie explaining politics to a reporter.

I must confess that I’ve been outraged by the Obamacare law, but I haven’t read it. It’s well over 2,000 pages and I have something roughly resembling a life, so I haven’t read it and I don’t plan on reading it. The controversial Arizona immigration law is 19 pages long and I have read the […]

Last month Franklin Graham was disinvited from the National Prayer Day breakfast at the Pentagon after some “raised concerns” over Graham’s comments that Islam was an “evil” and “wicked” religion. Well, how would one describe this: Yes, what you have there is a member of the Muslim Students Association advocating for genocide of the Jews. […]

The result was predictable. I mentioned last week that a couple of Live Oak High School administrators had removed five students from school for wearing T-shirts featuring the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Well, the fallout has been predictable. The heightened police presence was due in part to rumors swirling around the school Thursday […]

New York Times columnist Charles Blow, last seen complaining that racial diversity on the right is nothing more than a “minstrel show,” has been given access to a computer once again to publish this doozy. Thankfully, you don’t have to read to the end for the punchline. He gets right to the point. Racist. Tea […]

This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s too good not to bring it to your attention. Melting icebergs causing sea level rise Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise. The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, is […]

Seriously, I do. I did less to earn my Pulitzer than President Barack Obama did to win his Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got his award for not being George W. Bush. I got my Pulitzer for being on the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2006 when “the staff” of the U-T won for […]