David Brooks writes about the history of Mrs. Clinton’s heavy-handed tactics in the NY Times. In 1993, Jim Cooper, a Congressman from Tennessee, had proposed a health care reform plan as a more bipartisan alternative to HillaryCare. Her response: But unlike the plan Hillary Clinton came up with then, the Cooper plan did not include…
Month: February 2008
Independent Voters Nixed in California?
ABC reported live that some voters who were legitimately registered as independent were denied the right to vote at Burbank’s city hall. Glitches have to be expected; however, this is a fairly basic error that shouldn’t be made, especially at an official government location. How does something like this happen? Well, in Texas temporary workers…
First Blood to Huckabee
Mike Huckabee has won the first delegates of Super Tuesday, taking all 18 from the state of West Virginia, albeit with a little help from John McCain. Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia’s state GOP convention. Huckabee bested Mitt Romney, who…
Double Your Pleasure…
…by marrying multiple women and helping to destroy Britain by increasing the strain that you and yours put on the infidel nation’s already burgeoning welfare state! It sounds ridiculous – heck, it is ridiculous! – but the new guidelines issued by the Department for Work and Pensions read thusly: "Where there is a valid polygamous…
Turks Protest Against Headscarves
A huge crowd – over 100,000 people – assembled in An?tkabir, Turkey over the weekend to protest the Erdogan government’s plan to lift the ban on Muslim headscarves, as well they should. Michael wrote about this issuea couple of months back, wondering, "…what about female students who refuse to wear a headscarf? Will they be…
Freedom Allows Hate, Too
Why do advocates think that people who speak out against illegal immigration are guilty of using hate speech? When you stop and think about it, the United States is a pretty safe and civil place to live. Even so, many of us, whether black, white, or brown, have been harassed about the color of our…
Female Suicide Bombers "Mentally Impaired"
Leave the word female out of the title and you have a truism that every person who has the least bit of love for their life – or someone else’s – should be able to agree on. The AFP: Explosives strapped to two mentally impaired women were triggered by remote control in co-ordinated attacks that…
Texans for Obama
The Houston Chronicle’s Texas Politics blog says that Barack Obama’s support is on the rise in Texas while Hillary Clinton’s supporters have remained static the race for the state’s delegates to the Democratic national convention. U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton remains statistically about the same as where she was in January. She currently holds 48 percent…
Microsoft Buyout of Yahoo?
The Washington Post says Yahoo may be acquired by Microsoft: Yahoo was one of the first companies to popularize Web searching, and it still attracts one of the Internet’s largest audiences to its main Web site, an amalgamation of services and content that includes its search engine. However, the company has had trouble translating that…