Cooking a NY strip and getting ready for some football. You? I’m supposed to go to a party at a friend’s house, and all the people I like will be there, but I am still looking for an excuse to not go and stay at home. BTW- not to go all McMegan on you, but …
Archives for December 2011
In the Annals of Small Government Conservatism
The right wing sure does love themselves freedom and liberty and avoiding oppression from an overbearing government, don’t they: Sen. Vaneta Becker, R-Evansville, has introduced a bill that would set specific “performance standards” for singing and playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at any event sponsored by public schools and state universities. The law also would cover …
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This is, hands down, the lamest attempt to smear someone as anti-Semitic as I have ever seen. Just pathetic.
Open Thread: Back to the Book Tour
(Pat Oliphant via GoComics.com) __ Dave Weigel at Slate reports on “the Newt Un-Campaign” in Iowa on New Years Eve: – Gingrich’s stump speech ranges from 19 to 25 minutes. There is no script. There’s a litany of brain-enhancing policy lectures. As he closes, he either enumerates “two quick things” or “three quick things.” The …
Can’t have both
I’ve been reading about Ron Paul. Not the newsletters. Ron Paul has such an enormous body of statements and work in the non-profit public realm that there really aren’t enough hours in the day to pursue any additional inquiry into his entrepreneurial endeavors. Because this was big news in Ohio yesterday: The Ohio Personhood Amendment …
I Get By With a Little Help
Because of the gross incompetence of basically the entire GOP field, the Virginia AG is stepping in to save them from themselves (careful, link to Faux News): Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in the Virginia presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates …
The Cost Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Steve Benen is most likely correct when he notes the GOP “negotiators” in the Senate side of the payroll tax cut fight starting next month have no intention of extending the cut at all. Senators Crapo, Barrasso and especially Jon Kyl being involved means the Republicans are signaling that they are okay with destroying any …