Archive | November, 2007
When Faux News Attacks…
Fred Thompson, it makes me laugh: After Fox aired clips of Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer attacking Thompson’s candidacy, Thompson responded, “This has been a constant mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth.” “I don’t know that Fox has been going after you,” host Chris Wallace asserted. Thompson told Wallace, “You have the right to [...]
Continue reading...Education Thought for the Day
24. November 2007
I just started reading Jonathan Kozol’s The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, and I am already pretty blown away by his observations. One early passages provides real insight into Kozol’s point of view and his passion: Perhaps most damaging to any effort to address this subject openly is the refusal [...]
Continue reading...Forest Restoration and the Grizzlies
24. November 2007
Watching the Grizzlies game (where my fears about their ability to stop the option are being played out), I had the opportunity to watch a delightful ad from the Montana Wood Products Association. It turns out that they want to “restore” Montana’s forests to combat global warming. Who knew? Go, Griz.
Continue reading...America’s Military: Too Large For Its Mission, Too Small for Empire
22. November 2007
Foreign Affairs has a fascinating article by Richard Betts in its November/December issue that argues that the United States has developed an almost completely irrational defense spending policy: If Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep in the Pentagon’s budgeting office 20 years ago and awoke today, his first reaction would be that nothing had changed. President [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Rehberg Suddenly Gets Religion on Earmarks
20. November 2007
Call me a cynic, but I find the editorial blitz today lauding Dennis Rehberg’s proposal to reform the earmark process to be a bit puzzling. One would expect that the experienced political observers who write Montana’s editorials could smell an election year ploy like this from a mile away, but maybe the snow in clouded [...]
Continue reading...Your Issues Based Montana Republican Party
17. November 2007
Let’s say that you can’t find a credible candidate to oppose Senator Baucus. Let’s also imagine that your party’s ideology is bankrupt, and that your state is starting to see that. What do you do? You campaign like this, and get those press-release lovin’ folk at the IR State Bureau to print it. Truthfully, I must [...]
Continue reading...Who Needs a Fake Press Conference When You’ve Got Faux News?
16. November 2007
From the Washington Post: Fox Business News anchor David Asman’s questions were not just predictably sycophantic — they were beyond that. They gave sycophancy a bad name. And some were specious as well. Asman’s first question: "You call yourself a supply-sider. Your speech today was all about tax cuts. But were even you surprised at how much [...]
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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 (18)
- 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)
- 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
- Some Questions I’d Like to See Someone Ask Steve Daines
- Our Endorsements for the Democratic Primary: Bullock, Juneau, and Hunt
25. November 2007
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