For those who didn’t get the message earlier, I caught a cold that really got going the Friday before Valentines Day.  Had to skip Capricon; Meredith went for about half the con, but I was way too sick to deal with it.  The cold  turned into a sinus infection, and then on towards bronchitis and finally pneumonia by the 18th (the day before my ( Read more... )

Sean Hannity, on his TV show:

I say why isn’t Iraq paying us back with oil, and paying every American family and their soldiers that lost loved ones or have injured soldiers - and why didn’t they pay for their own liberation? For the Kuwait oil minister - how short his memory is. You know, we have every right to go in there and frankly take all ( Read more... )

Cute scheme, Newt.  Raise millions for a personal Political Action committee for your own personal use and expenses.

What is American Solutions for Winning the Future? What does it do? Mostly, it promotes Newt Gingrich. An AP  analysis determined that American Solutions has spent nearly all of its money raised over the last two years on ( Read more... )

Be a multimillionaire politician, go on a book tour, and have any of the outfits pulling you in for a speech buy bazillions of copies of your book in bulk. Helps your sales numbers no end!

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My favorite conservative columnist, Daniel Larison, is hitting it on the head and out of the ballpark this morning about the mindless OMG’ing in the Beltway press and elsewhere about political dishonesty on national security issues.

He brings up two main directions on this:

1. if Group A is out of office, then Group B (who is in) are feebly trying to ( Read more... )

“Sarah Palin is a great friend to the bowling industry and we’re so proud and honored to welcome her as our keynote speaker at International Bowl Expo 2010,” said Steven Johnson, executive director of the BPAA.

A bowling columnist writes:

Politicians don’t seem to give a hoot about championing the great sport of bowling and that bothers me when ( Read more... )

…is only indicative of local situations, really - with two caveats.

1. If you run a crappy candidate and a nasty, dumb campaign, don’t be surprised when you lose.
2. If you spend a lot of money and should have won or just barely won, that says more about your campaign and your candidate than anything else.

In Virginia and New Jersey, the Democrats ran ( Read more... )

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• Governor Sanford of South Carolina’s spokesman is resigning for a job in the private sector.  Comments from folks who know him say that he’s a nice guy who probably is very tired from this ride on the circus.
• Unlike at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Arlington trashes the stuff left behind.
• As I’ve said before, I’m ignoring the Sotomayor hearings as ( Read more... )