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My Sarah Palin video
Sarah Palin's Song. Doin' what the Lord tells me. http://www.youtube.com/v/yeHF7Nrnrc4
Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by mathpol on October 22, 2008
Bush Redeems Himself - from Katrina, to Gustav
The main benefit of this new hurricane in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, if you can in any way couch this natural disaster redux in such terms, is that President Bush and the current Republican White House and Administration get to improve their performance. Already, Bush is on the ground and in charge. Our President has appeared on my ...
Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008
Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1
''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008
Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2
Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008
Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan
Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
Note to Dahlia Lithwick et al., re: &amp;quot;redacted.&amp;quot;
Dahlia (and others similarly situated -- at editors' desks and reporters' laptops)... I make humble request that you eschew use of the word ''redacted.'' It is, I agree, a nifty and lofty sounding word. But in a strict definition, it merely means ''to prepare for publication,'' or to ''edit for publication.'' Just what editors and writers ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by RememberThe9th on September 4, 2007