November 2008

Who’s Trying to Steal An Election, Norm?

November 19, 2008

Minesota Public Radio has some great images of challenged ballots in the Senate recount, during which Al Franken has already gained 43 votes. Despite the Coleman campaign’s non-stop working of the refs before the game began, crying about fraud, it seems apparent that they intend to steal as many votes as they can. Consider these [...]

Read the full article →

The NBA, Soccer, or the Montana Republican Party?

November 18, 2008

You decide: To the crack of the bat, the cadence of the quarterback and the thwack of a tennis racket, add a new element to America’s sports soundtrack — the shrieks, cries and shouts of N.B.A. players as they try to put the ball in the basket. In part, the emoting is designed to deceive, [...]

Read the full article →

Question of the Day: Where is Lieberman Hiding the Pictures?

November 18, 2008

The only possible explanation for the spineless behavior of Harry Reid and the Democratic leadership today must be that Senator Lieberman owns a vast collection of Pat Geary-style photos of Harry Reid with live boys and dead girls. Demanding that Lieberman be stripped of his chairmanship was not about revenge for his actions, it was [...]

Read the full article →

Senate Democrats: Vote No on Joe

November 17, 2008

The indications are that Joe Lieberman will somehow retain his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee after a secret vote tomorrow by Senate Democrats. Why? Because Lieberman threatened Harry Reid: First, President-elect Obama told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that he wanted Lieberman to stay in the Democratic caucus. Later, in a meeting with Senate [...]

Read the full article →

Dick Cavett Explains Sarah Palin Better Than Anyone Else Has

November 16, 2008

Please do yourself the favor of reading Mr. Cavett’s entire post. I hesitate to excerpt some of the better parts, but this is a world in a hurry. A woman in one of Palin’s crowds praised her for being “a mom like me … who thinks the way I do” and added, for ill measure, [...]

Read the full article →

Montana Human Rights Network 1, Rob Natelson 0

November 13, 2008

I intended to write earlier about UM law professor Rob Natelson’s totally irrational argument about the Montana Human Rights Network, but the MHRN offered a much better response: “Dear Professor Natelson – “We received the following e-mail, and we wanted to alert you that it appears somebody has hijacked your personal e-mail account.  The rambling [...]

Read the full article →

Gloomy Roy: Just Walk Away

November 10, 2008

Roy Brown thinks he lost the election because he didn’t have enough money: Republican Roy Brown says he lost by a 2-1 margin to Gov. Brian Schweitzer because the Democrats had more money to spend and used it on false attacks. His own campaign’s money was primarily used for television spots that built his own [...]

Read the full article →

An Open Letter to Denise Juneau

November 10, 2008

Dear Ms. Juneau: Congratulations on your recent election. While it was clear to those of us who care about education in Montana that you were by far the best choice for the position, the Montana electorate occasionally shows a troubling lack of judgment or attention in down ticket races. In this case, though, it was [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →