Archive for the 'politics' Category

Interesting political links

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Interesting to me, anyway. Feel free to skip this post if you don’t care about politics. My definition of interesting is “I cannot predict what this person will say next, even though I’ve been reading their writings for the past several years.” This is also my talk radio strategy, which I may […]

General Adopt a Box of Docs Info

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

I forgot to make a link to the Adopt a box of docs page. Go there and see for yourself what Roberts wrote about all kinds of issues. Be forwarned that many boxes are filled with junk that has nearly nothing to do with Roberts at all. Others only contain memos which […]

John Roberts on Comparable Worth, Part II

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

More John Roberts memos, including comparable worth memos, memos on FCC judgments, secret taping of telephone conversation, white collar crime, as well as the infamous “Meese-Mobile” memo…

John Roberts on Comparable Worth, Part I

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

The Reagan Library recently released a ton of boxes of documents related to John Roberts. A popular radio talk show host pointed out that is way too much for one person to wade through and attempt to read all in one go. He suggested that bloggers “Adopt a Box O’Docs” and wade through […]

BREAKING NEWS: Leahy speaks sense

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

A regular reader of Captain Ed’s blog sends the Captain some words of wisdom from Senator Pat Leahy:
I mention this because Governor Bush and I, while we disagree on some issues, have one very significant issue on which we agree. He gave a speech awhile back and criticized what has happened in the Senate where […]

“It’s as bad as slavery.”

Monday, May 9th, 2005

Cathy Seipp shines a light on what Michael Newdow is up to when he doesn’t have his panties in a twist over two words and a pause:
“You’re taking one person’s life and ruining it to make another person’s better,” says [father’s] movement leader Michael Newdow, who also laments the fact that “women can choose to […]

I’ll Huffington, and Puffington, and blowington your blog down

Monday, May 9th, 2005

Today is the launch of the great Huffington stupid media spectacle… giant pile of satire fodder… er, weblog. <garthvoice>I guess.</garthvoice> I wouldn’t call it a weblog myself… it’s more like The Blob meets The Blog meets The Media Hype. But then, in internet years, I’m a cranky old geezer. Hey […]

Salad Dressing

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Watch Pat Buchanan get attacked by an orange-mohawked punk with salad dressing

On Social Security

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Everyone knows why the social security crisis is coming, right? All the boomers will be hitting social security age, and there won’t be enough of us whippersnappers around to pay for the geezers. “But wait, I thought all the geezers paid into the program, so they should just be getting back what they’ve […]

Couple of Iraqi election links

Monday, January 31st, 2005

First, the brothers at Iraq the Model give their account of how the voting went:
I walked forward to my station, cast my vote and then headed to the box, where I wanted to stand as long as I could, then I moved to mark my finger with ink, I dipped it deep as if I […]