A study produced by a leading paleontologist finds that “guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history.”
Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war. Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face of recent positive signs on the security front . . .
Could [...]
Do you view yourself in a “great moral march of just crusaders led by our fearless party leaders against the evil and/or ignorant opposition”?
Perhaps you think that Senator James Inhofe can only be in the pocket of “big oil” to believe the way he does. Or, obviously, you conclude, [...]
The converse to this story is true as well:Â
A car is no more destructive to the environment than a couple of farting moose.Â
When I read this story, I couldn’t help but to think of a basic training ditty, a variation of which was made famous in Full Metal Jacket:
This is my weapon, this is my gun; one is for shooting the other’s for [my girlfriend’s] fun.
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A Democratic political operative has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that alleges that Fred Thompson’s pre-candidacy candidacy is a violation of the election rules.
The complaint will very likely be moot, since Thompson has 15 days to respond, a period during which he is expected to formally [...]
I’ve been privy to a very bitter group email exchange between a few Davidson County Republicans over the last couple days.Â
The subject has been the Nashville mayor’s race. Some of the local group backs Bob Clement, others back Karl Dean, and still others supported some of the candidates who lost in the first [...]
Bob Mueller promises a “streamlining” of WKRN’s blogs at Nashville’s blog-friendly local television station. Hopefully, that means that they’re finally pulling the plug on Nashville is Talking. Lately that place has resembled Men in Black’s “Edgar.”  Already nasty, Edgar became far worse after his body was taken over by an alien cockroach.
I’ve beaten up on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and libertarian Ron Paul enough. Now it’s time to look more closely at a Republican presidential candidate.
Rich Lowry offers this criticism of Kansas Senator Sam Brownback’s campaign:
For people for whom the pro-life issue trumps all, the imperative has to be [...]
“. . . two bullets which she says hit her house.” (Say Uncle, have fun with that one.)Â
Since the picture was so diligently fact-checked, I wonder what’s the truth behind the “slaughter” of 175 people mentioned in the caption?
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Mea Culpa: AFP, not AP. Corrected [...]
Why is it that after a few high profile gaffes Barack Obama’s campaign is on death watch, while the even more gaffe-prone Joe Biden escapes notice?
Two reasons. The first is obvious: Obama is higher in the polls, has farther to fall, and thus will make a bigger [...]
The Cracker raises an interesting point in a comment to a post at Volunteer Voters:
. . . what if the Democrats decide NOT to run someone in [Tennessee’s 4th Senate district currently occupied by erstwhile Republican Mike Williams] . . . ?
Question: Are the Democrats in a better position [...]
Half a year ago I bemoaned the dreadfully early start to the 2008 presidential election. Perhaps I was in error. For if this election period hadn’t yet started in earnest, Barack Obama might not have had the opportunity to demonstrate his complete ineptitude prior to the actual primaries. That [...]
Certain elements of the Nashville political blogosphere have been embroiled in one of those MSM v Bloggers dustups that emerges from time to time. As in most such imbroglios, there is an element of truth to both sides: As Alan Coverstone states, journalistic coverage of local government and politics is not as informative as we wish [...]
His remarks will be misconstrued as meaning that he wants another 9/11, but the gist of his argument is spot on: We would rather fight with each other, than for each other.
Instead of damning the author, we should put the damnation where it belongs:Â ourselves.
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A political dirty trick attempted by a very stupid lawyer.
UPDATE:Â Dan thinks that it might be Gretchen who is the stupid one.
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[...]Tom Daschle has stretched the bounds of common sense by claiming that Republicans are beyond the pale for challenging Senator Tim Johnson for his seat next November. Why is that so insulting? Well, according to Daschle it is “sad” and “desperate” to challenge in an election someone too incapacitated to have returned to work since [...]
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of privileged communications within a branch of government:
The review of the . . . files when the search was executed exposed [internal information] and violated the Constitution.
No, this wasn’t about any of the myriad investigations of the White House that Congress is busying itself with instead [...]
No, Vice Mayor Howard Gentry didn’t win the race for Nashville Mayor. But he did finish with a very strong third place showing.
With just a few precincts remaining, this is how it looks in Nashville:
Clement-Dean tied at 24% each
Gentry 23%
Dozier 17%
Briley 10%
Next month, Dozier’s votes will go to Clement, and [...]
It didn’t take long. Whenever anything bad happens President Bush is the culprit.Â
Twenty to thirty people are still estimated to be missing from the Minnesota bridge collapse not yet one day old, and already, it’s the Iraq War that is diverting much-needed transportation funds from repairing our aging infrastructure. [...]
Because he thinks it is wrong for Americans forces to invade a sovereign nation over a disagreement with their internal leadership, Presidential candidate Barack Obama thinks American forces should invade another sovereign nation just to prove the point.
Increasingly the Illinois Senator is showing that he is not quite ready for prime time.
UPDATE:
Does Barack Obama know that there [...]
One of the downsides of the internet is that any random nobody can make unsubstantiated accusations and they’re out there for everyone to see.
For example, over on Volunteer Voters an anonymous commenter left this stink bomb:
. . . [Mayoral candidate X] is now paying African Americans to put his signs in [...]
A. C. Kleinheider posted a video of a woman interviewing Fred Thompson at a Thompson rally in Texas. At the end of the inteview, the woman went into a rant about the Council on Foreign Relations and 9/11 conspiracy theories. In the title of the post, Kleinheider labeled the woman [...]
One difference I’ve noted between certain elements of America’s two political parties is that Republicans tend to criticize Democratic primary candidates as being “too liberal,” while Democrats criticize the GOP’s potential offerings as not being conservative enough. (i.e., Fred Thompson’s past lobbying clients, Rudy Giuliani’s past marriages, and Mitt Romney’s [...]
Most of what I’ve concluded about the Nashville Mayoral race comes from watching yard signs.Â
When you live in the same area for a while, and you pay attention to politics, you recognize that it’s always the same houses always sporting the same signs. I can tell you today, which houses will host a [...]
Rob Huddleston on the Bloomberg thing:
The headline reads: “Bloomberg Leaves GOP.” But how can one leave something that he never was a part of?
Let me put it this way - if I rent a Ford Mustang and drive it to where I need to be this morning (which is [...]
“I think there’ll be a lot of discussion about the appropriateness of burning the tires — or whatever it was that they called what they were doing — and going forward, and I think that’s probably a very good discussion to have,” Bredesen said.
An awful tragedy, to be quite [...]
The drought puts Jack Daniel’s at risk. Forget the lawn. Now people are really going to start to care.
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