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Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake
Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009
Re: McCain and Palin BARELY graduated college!
WoW. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! It's amazing that Palin even got elected GOVERNOR never mind selected as VP! No wonder she doesn't know anything and they both seem fairly, um, well, unsophisticated (to be kind). I know who I'm voting for!
Posted to Politics by JoeSixPack on October 31, 2008
Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections
Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008
Ignore Lies? Worst Advice Ever. SMACK those liars DOWN!
During Katrina, America realized the astonishing truth that lies can actually matter. Lying that you've sent water to hurricane victims when you've really prevented water from getting to them, lying that you've got a plan for climate change when you really just want more oil profit, lying about not being racist and then putting out ...
Posted to Kausfiles by RachelB on September 16, 2008
Professional Journalism
I know you are professional journalists. A profession is a fancy Latin term for the way you express your belief in the one true God as you understand him. Mr. Webster describes profession as the act of taking the vows of a religious community, or: an act of openly declaring or publicly claiming a belief or faith: an avowed religious faith a: a ...
Posted to Kausfiles by Coffee NBagodoughnuts on September 15, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Liberal Media Lies
Political logic augurs a Democratic triumph in looming US elections but Barack Obama’s White House duel with John McCain is still a statistical tie, prompting some to wonder why he is yet to break away. Political logic augurs a democratic triumph? Augur: To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. What signs or omens are they looking ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 12, 2008
This has to be parody!
I read the blurb for this story on another site and thought I was going to be redirected to The Onion. For years, the pundits that be have been telling us that we need to have a “national conversation about race.” I suppose we’re having it now. And what we’re learning, is that a lot of us are neurotic ninnies about the subject. It’s ...
Posted to Chatterbox by abirata on August 5, 2008
Said it, Meant it: bridges among feminists?
In response to Marjorie Valbrun’s thoughtful piece about the eroding relations between black women Obama supporters and white women Clinton supporters, I can’t help wondering whether these difficult conversations about how sexism and racism undermine equal opportunities aren’t a necessary first step in a modern conversation about race relations. ...
Posted to XX Factor by L Newfarmer on May 28, 2008
Hard Working White Folks/Working Class Whites
It's so clear to me that Hillary was trying to avoid saying ...''working class whites...'' and in doing so spit out the ''hard working'' characterization. She tripped over her own attack strategy. If she had said what she originally intended, she would have sounded elitist. Like that other guy she's been attacking for weeks. Her words have been ...
Posted to Politics by Scott K on May 9, 2008

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