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Liberals Love the United States, Too: A Note for the Fourth of July (Reprise)
I’m never going to enjoy a Toby Keith song about America, or demand that my neighbors "love or leave" this country. It’s unlikely that I will ever refer to an American media outlet as traitorous, or demand that we build a fenced wall between the United States and Mexico. I don’t believe that, this, or [...]
Continue reading...Bill Mercer: Putting Politics Above the Law While Breaking It
24. June 2008
While Bill Mercer has demonstrated a remarkable inability to find his way into a courtroom and prosecute cases, he certainly has a gift for finding his way into documentation of the incredible politicization of the Justice Department. While this is hard to imagine, Mercer uses politics and beliefs about wolves to reject one candidate. Demonstrating [...]
Continue reading...The Unfair Scrutiny of the McCains Goes On
8. May 2008
Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I found this NBC interview of Cindy McCain to simply be too much. How can we ask the spouses of candidates to undergo grilling like this? No one deserves to face questions this challenging: “What drives you to reach out to do so much? Adopt a child, reach out to all [...]
Continue reading...Since the Senate is Going Around Condemning People…
25. September 2007
How about this delighful character? Honestly, has anyone ever made so much of having done so little?
Continue reading...Bold Democratic Leadership Once Again
20. September 2007
Every day, it's harder to believe that the Democrats have any interest in actually standing up to the Republicans, who use sleaze and distraction to give themselves power: The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal. The 72-25 vote condemned [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Rehberg: Ironic Devil
19. September 2007
You've got to be impressed with Dennis Rehberg's chutzpah. For him to write in glowing terms about the Constitution after supporting this President's assault on the document over and over again is nothing short of remarkable. In today's IR, Rehberg writes The framers of our Constitution created a document that has withstood the test of time, and their shadow continues to [...]
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