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Earmarks Again Like everyone else, I’ve written a lot about Sarah Palin recently. The reason, I think, is pretty obvious: until a little under two weeks ago, most of us knew nothing about her. When Obama nominated Biden, there wasn’t much to write other than a straightforward reaction: most people who read this blog know […]

“A Culture Of Ethical Failure” From the NYT, the Interior Department’s Inspector General seems to have found a lot of unusually blatant corruption: “In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about […]

OMG Teh Cub Scouts! It’s bad enough that Barack Obama wants to teach your kids about sex the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, so that they can protect themselves against pedophiles. But, following up on a comment at the Washington Monthly, I see that the Cub Scouts do too. Here’s the cover of a […]

Sex, Lies, And Videotape The McCain campaign has a new ad out that says (among other things): “Obama’s one accomplishment? Legislation to teach “comprehensive sex education” to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family. “ John McCain: wrong on the facts. For starters, the bill […]

Public Service Announcement It occurred to me today that voter registration deadlines are going to start coming up soon, and that that being the case, it might be a good idea for someone to post them. And since I am the change I’ve been waiting for, I thought: why not me? After all, some of […]

Naked David Broder Speaks In his last post, Steve notes the Washington Post equating a flat-out lie by Sarah Palin with a claim by Joe Biden that at worst lacks context, and asks: “Why lump them both together as “questionable claims”?” As it happens, there is an answer to this question. It was revealed by […]

Pwned! As Jay Bookman notes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “According to his spokesman, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a Southerner born and bred, had no idea on earth that the word “uppity” had racial connotations when he used it to describe Barack and Michelle Obama. No idea at all. Could have knocked him over with a […]

Oops! She Did It Again ABC’s Political Punch reports on Sarah Palin’s speech today: “She said she “championed reform of earmark spending by Congress, and I told the Congress thanks but no thanks on that ‘Bridge to Nowhere’”, she said, ommiting (sic) mention that she’d campaigned for governor supporting the bridge.” I take it most […]

More Of The Same From the WSJ: “The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters. The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project […]

Oh, Please. Sen. James Inhofe sets a new record for disingenuousness: “Regardless of what polls show, Inhofe said, voters will have to ask themselves a question once they get behind the curtain in the voting booth on Election Day. “Do you really want to have a guy as commander in chief of this country when […]