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Somebody forgot to say to the former first lady “Uh, oh yeah, Senator Clinton?-remember: don’t look like such a God-awful, humorless witch tonight.”  Read More →

Governor Tim Kaine will be giving the Dems response to the Prez’s address tonight. That’s right, one month in to his first term Virginian Kaine will be giving the speech seen (though I like many I imagine, don’t intend on having the sound on) by millions of Americans. Could one ask for a better depiction of the dearth of leadership on the issues most important to the American people offered by the opposition party? What will Kaine speak to? Alleviating traffic on the Beltway?One... Read More→

Sort of. If you map it a certain way. -at the Women’s National Republican Club3 West 51st StreetThe Henrietta Wells Livermore School of Politics INVITES YOU TO AN EVENING WITH FRANK GAFFNEY, JR PRESIDENT & CEOOF THE CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY& AUTHOR OF“WAR FOOTING” – 10 STEPS AMERICAMUST TAKE TO PREVAIL IN THE WARFOR THE FREE WORLD TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 20066:00 – 7:30pm“In “War Footing” – perhaps the most important book written since 9/11 -, Frank Gaffney and his... Read More→

“The question is whether you trivialize the suffering that people experienced on plantations by applying that word to a different setting,” [Dartmouth College Professor Linda Fowler] said. “It’s just really a question of appropriateness – making a connection between the badly treated Democrats in the House of Representatives and people who are enslaved against their will. It just seems like a stretch.”I’ll say.Actually, thanks Hil. A full-court press of several... Read More→

Today’s quick must-reads: Germany proving, yet again, that when War is global, she’s on the wrong side. Our continued prayers to Matt Long and his family.  Read More →

The quality of this week will be judged by the successful executions of an election in Iraq, of the Taylor Law in NYC (Happiness is NOT reading about impending ILLEGAL transit strike while on a delayed Uptown 6), and of a convicted capital criminal in California.  Read More →

Among the most annoyingly abused phrases in our lexicon, perhaps topped only by “for the children”, but it’s nice that for a couple of days a year, we fat, dumb, happy Americans can fake it.I bet they’re asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America. And while knowing December 7, 1941 as the Day that will live in infamy, the Day the Sleeping Giant awoke IS important (despite the assertion of Floridian Brinsley Elliot, who better be hot), it is most vital... Read More→

The idea that we’re going to win Independence from Mother England is an idea which is just plain wrong- Loyalist Jedediah Dean, June 1781, a few months before the British surrender at Yorktown. The idea that we’re going to win this war and preserve the Union is an idea which is just plain wrong - Democrat Alexander Dean Howard, August 1864, a few weeks before the fall of Atlanta. The idea that we’re going to win the war in Europe while simultaneously emerging victorious over Imperial... Read More→

Last night my friend Kimberly and I, on the urging of a loopy art-school friend of ours,reluctantly went to the Guggenheim museum to take in some performance art. Now that rather justly maligned term is to me another way to refer to the act of conning someone into underwriting bad pretentious entertainment or one’s excuse for inappropiate behavior that I wish I hadn’t been too drunk to employ in College. But hey, what the hell, oftentimes it’s good for a laugh. And yes, you artsy... Read More→

Item: 2005 Elections spell bad news for Bush, Right-Wing RepublicansThink of all potential combinations of results and this will be the gist of tomorrow headlines and “analyses.” They (today’s elections) in fact mean…practically nothing for the national picture. Virginia may mean something to George Allen’s national ambitions, however. A Kilgore loss comes with a diminishment of the junior senator’s prestige. Then again, a Kaine win along with an exiting Democrat... Read More→