She makes a terific argumint. – The sign in the background reads: ——–Tejas no es una colonia mexicana. A tip of the hat to Robert Rummel-Hudson’s Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords blog. -
Category Archives: Politics
California’s Sneaky Propositions 98 & 99
May 7, 2008 – 4:19 pm
Not the whole story… There are two competing propositions on the California Direct Primary (June 3) ballot: Proposition 98–Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property Proposition 99–Eminent Domain. Acquisition of Owner-Occupied Residence If both measures pass, the one with the most votes prevails. Do not click away from this page, my non-California readers, this post is [...]
The Filly is Put Down
May 3, 2008 – 7:53 pm
© Time While campaigning in Kentucky on Thursday, Hillary Clinton, identifying with Eight Belles, the only filly running in the 134th Kentucky Derby, said, “I want everybody to place a little money on the filly.” Today, Eight Belles came in second to Big Brown, collapsed, broke both front ankles, and had to be euthanized on [...]
Rev. Wright’s Record: 10 Wins, 1 Loss, 2 No Decisions
May 1, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Polls show Obama on the rocks, with pollsters suggesting that his association with Rev. Wright is one important factor in his recent decline. (Note: these polls were run prior to Rev. Wright’s National Press Club talk and Obama’s subsequent repudiation of him.) The media lens is tightly focused on Wright’s assertion that HIV was invented [...]
Will There Be Water in Lake Chad?
March 29, 2008 – 8:06 pm
Much of the talk about unsettled times ahead looks to oil as a cause: economies will undergo transition and regional conflicts will increase. Think also about water. Lake Chad is an exemplar. At one time the world’s sixth largest lake, included in four African countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria), it has, in less than [...]
Embarrassingly Partisan Baseball
March 26, 2008 – 6:14 pm
photo credit: Duane Burleson/AP Steroids in Major League Baseball should not be a political issue. But it is. Who’s the liar? Brian McNamee or Roger Clemens? I don’t know…and actually, I don’t much care. Damn them all. Professional baseball is full of over-amped egos and self-defined Masters of the Universe. Yesterday, however, continuing the outrageously [...]
Subprime Thinking
March 24, 2008 – 1:04 am
“It is the private trading of complex instruments that lurk in the financial shadows that worries regulators and Wall Street and that [has] created stresses in the broader economy. Economic downturns and panics have occurred before, of course. Few, however, have posed such a serious threat to the entire financial system that regulators have responded [...]
After Fidel
February 22, 2008 – 9:35 am
Administration after administration has perceived Cuba as an irritant inside our hemispheric shell and coated it with layer after layer of economic and political nacre, which unlike mother-of-pearl, has not created value. In fact, U.S. policy has rendered Cuba nearly irrelevant. Fidel, of course, has been the focus of our sedimentary relationship, one that has [...]
Liberator of Bulgaria
February 20, 2008 – 10:17 am
What actually happens is not always in the history books. I grew up in California in the 50′s, graduating from high school in 1961, only 16 years after World War II ended. So how was it possible that in all my classes there was not one mention of the internment of Americans of Japanese descent? [...]
Does a Curveball Break Left or Right?
February 17, 2008 – 7:52 am
Roger Clemens testifies before Congress, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform grills him about use of steroids and human growth hormone. He denies everything. This tabloid shocker is getting far more press than real disasters in Darfur or the Iraq situation (can’t call it a war, because only Congress can declare war…and [...]
