Vanity Fair has a lengthy profile of Sarah Palin. It is a great read. It outlines her volatile temper and dubious financing activities. It does rely extensively on anonymous sources, but the stories all hang together in a way that suggest more truth than exaggeration. Excerpt: Warm and effusive in public, indifferent or angry in private: [...]
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Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: music, politics, republicans, Sarah Palin
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Political quote of the day
Posted: 26th July 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: politics, republicans, wackos
Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera? – Ken Buck, Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Colorado, on the birthers.
The “war on drugs”: epic fail
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: civil liberties, drugs, justice, politics
In a nutshell, a complete (and supremely expensive) failure. Alcohol prohibition didn’t work. And chemical prohibition won’t either. Legalize now. (via Andrew Sullivan)
LBJ could not tolerate tight slacks
Posted: 2nd April 2010 by Brant in culture, fun, politicsTags: fun, LBJ, politics
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Thank God for the White House recording system that LBJ used. Otherwise, critical information like this would not be available. I don’t think I have ever heard a President use the word “bunghole” before. (via Wonkette)
Republicans are crazy
Posted: 24th March 2010 by Dave in politicsTags: Democrats, Fox News, media, politics, republicans
For those who remember, there was a poll commissioned by blog Daily Kos a while ago that showed many in the Republican Party where insane. Fox News and conservative commentators attacked the poll as purposefully inaccurate. Well there is a new Harris poll out that shows Republicans are even more insane than I thought (I [...]
C-SPAN video library now live
Posted: 20th March 2010 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: books, C-SPAN, politics
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Good news for political (and book) junkies. C-SPAN has placed its entire video library online. I mention books, because the archive also includes the Book TV shows.
It is census time, have fun…
Posted: 19th March 2010 by Brant in fun, politicsTags: census, fun, media, politics, TV
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Economics quote of the day
Posted: 24th February 2010 by Brant in biz, politicsTags: bailout, banks, Bush administration, economy, politics, Wall Street
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I’m seeing a series of ideas suggested involving major government intervention in the housing market, and these things are usually presented or sold as a way of helping homeowners stay in their homes. Then, when you look at them more carefully, what they really amount to is a bailout for financial institutions or Wall Street. [...]
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I have never understood why every “middle” of the road Democrat isn’t so much a moderate but just seems to switch sides on issues to get re-elected or to get attention. Republican moderates always seem to have some sort of centrist beliefs. And we get stuck with the Joe Libermans and Harold Fords of the [...]
Cindy McCain supports same-sex marriage
Posted: 21st January 2010 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: Cindy McCain, civil rights, politics, republicans
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Cindy McCain, wife of Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has made a big splash and come out in strong support of the right of same-sex marriage and against California’s Proposition 8. Good for her. If more Republicans actually supported liberty, as opposed to paying lip service to the concept, it would be a [...]
MLK quote of the day
Posted: 18th January 2010 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: culture, politics
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I think this thought has broad application in the current political culture in the United States. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[// –Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is in the closet now? (updated)
Posted: 15th January 2010 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: civil rights, politics
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After years of gays and lesbians hiding the closet, in the trials now going on in California and elsewhere, it appears that those opposed to marriage equality feel the need to hide. Check out this essay by Linda Greenhouse in the New York Times At its private conference on Friday, the Supreme Court is due [...]
Week in review (updated)
Posted: 13th December 2009 by Dave in politicsTags: Fox News, politics, republicans, TV
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I have always found that Media Matters provides a good summary of what has been in the news over the last week or so. The sad part about this week is how little important news dominated last week’s news cycle. Also, did Glenn Beck really ask if Tiger Woods was really O.J. Simpson? I new [...]
I love Glenn Beck
Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Dave in politicsTags: healthcare, politics, republicans, TV
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He is so strangely crazy. Someone how conservatives learned on 9/11 to stand up against health care reform….
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 14th October 2009 by Brant in fun, politicsTags: Apple, cartoon, Obama administration, Palin, politics, republicans
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Trust me. Take a look.