Archive | June, 2007
$4 gasoline? GIve me a SUV!
Ugh. It took me almost $50 to full up my gas tank last week. Prices for fuel are high enough that it made more financial sense to fly to lovely Portland, Oregon this month and rent a car while I am here to visit friends and family and do a little volunteer work than to drive [...]
Continue reading...Hope, Even in Kansas
18. June 2007
It will be a quiet week here, as I am in Kansas for debate nationals with my students, but I wanted to mention one sign of hope from our delightful cross-country drive. Even here in Kansas, there are some tired of this President, as demonstrated by the enormous billboard we saw on I-70, emblazoned with only one word: IMPEACH.
Continue reading...Trent Lott Wants To
14. June 2007
I'm no fan of talk radio, but a comment by Trent Lott in tomorrow's New York Times certainly gave me pause: Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is [...]
Continue reading...See, that’s the thing about rules…
14. June 2007
I am at Spokane International Airport today and going through the security line always makes me reflect on the nature of airline security in the United States…
Continue reading...Dennis Rehberg Answers Me About His Schedule…Sort Of
14. June 2007
Four months after my initial request and three months after I first e-mailed Dennis Rehberg’s office about the availability of his schedule I received this very personal reply from the Congressman’s office today: Thank you for contacting me regarding my daily schedule. I appreciate your suggestions. Currently, my office is constructing a new congressional website. As soon as all of the [...]
Continue reading...How About Spending That Money on a Fence?
12. June 2007
Every news story about the two escaped inmates from the state prison makes me wonder if the money spent paying a Communications Director wouldn't have been better spent on say, another fence or guard. I don't know how much he makes now, but when Bob Anez took the job at Corrections, he was being paid $67,500, a pretty decent [...]
Continue reading...Well, you have the first part right…
12. June 2007
Okay, so I know it is just the sports section, but since most Montana newspapers seems to devote as much or more coverage to sports than politics or the environment or the non-sports playing schools, this is a fair question. Can you tell me the point of this article? The writer, IR sports writer [...]
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- Tester-Burns Debate
- A Somewhat Cynical Observation about Mansfield-Metcalf
- Montana's Max: Nutcakes!
- Dennis Rehberg: Master of the Oblivious
- Off to See Hillary and Obama
- Idaho Anti Wolf Coalition Falls Short (21)
- Blogs and the Media: Kemmick and Crisp (17)
- Tester-Burns Debate (14)
- The conscience of a liberal: why I am considering abstaining in the Iraqi War Referendum vote... (14)
- The Religious Right's Trump Card Exposed (13)
- Why Does Jake Eaton Want to Disenfranchise My Students?
- The Sorry State of Politics Practiced by the Montana GOP and Its Surrogates: A Soccer Story
- Questions and One Thought After the GOP’s Last Day
- Fixing Failing by Predetermining Passing
- Rehberg’s 14 Minutes and the Media’s Response: Which Was Worse?
- Some More Thoughts About Denny’s Stunt in Washington
- DHS now officially seizing and searching laptops
- NorthWestern Energy makes me sick
- I just lost my appetite
- McCain confuses Somalia and the Sudan
20. June 2007
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