The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
It’s 197 degrees in south Florida today, just a few degrees below Hell’s ambient temperature. I know because I just opened up the patio door a couple of inches and felt a whoosh of hot, stinking, humid air hit me in the face. Sort of like that backdraft phenomena firemen experience when opening up a door to a room in flames. I might save a little money on electrical costs by frying my eggs this morning out on the deck. Find a nice flat rock, break an egg over it and I’ve got my fried eggs. Seriously though, I’m not venturing outside until this ridiculous weather lets up.
Not sure who is on this morning but if you hear a talking head say anything of interest, give us a shout. Open thread.
Happy Sunday.
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Sunday morning political talking points have become rather boring. Meet The Press, one of my prior favorites, hasn’t been the same since Gregory took over. The only saving grace for Sundays is “Sunday Morning” and Zakaria who brings a global perspective to issues that I find exciting
To pick up on your thread of heat, Candy Crowley just interviewed Tom ??? from NASA on Sen. Inhofe favorite subject.
Hottest summer on record, more monsoons (and stronger) than in many, many decades. Summer of fires, floods, and heat. Expect the possibility of our coast lines to lose at least a foot, maybe a meter in the next 50 years. Still trying to determine how bad it might be – never have seen a 100 square mile of Greenland break off from the NORTHERN coast. Poles continuing to melt more and more rapidly.
Looks like everything is unstoppable at this point…so we must start preparing for the changes in our lifetimes and those coming down the pike for future generations.
Janine, I feel exactly as you do about Meet the Press. David Gregory is shallow and keeps asking the same question in a different way. As he did this morning with General Petreus. Then Gregory has to distract from General Petreus’ answers by doing cut away shots while he is answering Gregory’s questions. Either they think that people have an extremely short attention span or their own is very short.
Fareed Zakaria has an amazing ability to cover subjects with the depth and breadth that is needed to shine a little light.
Heat, let me talk about heat here in Phoenix. It is the monsoon season here, has been for 6 weeks and will continue for another month or so. It is humid, not much rain, but over 100 every day for the past few weeks. The whole State is like being in a Swedish Sauna. I suppose that is punishment from on high for giving the world our non-elected governor, Jan Brewer.
About the only time I watch MTP these days is when Rachel Maddow is on. She’s the best voice NBC has. Howeve3r, if they made her the host, they’d probably scare away a lot of potential guests who are scared crapless of facing an intelligent moderator.
Midwest heat is different from southern heat. It’s mid-30s (the thermometer on my front porch is a Celsius one, a souvenir of a trip to Canada; I also have a complete set of metric cooking gear) and humid. Milwaukee does have the good fortune of being right on the edge of a giant reservoir of cool water which moderates things if you’re within a few miles of the shore, but it can still get into the 40s inland (easy reference pont – body temp in C is 37, not 98.6). I spent a year in central Minnesota once. With no big lake nearby, the summers and winters were brutal extremes of heat and cold. We have been getting some truly spectacular thunderstorms every week or so. Last month, a giant sinkhole opened up at a major intersection and swallowed a Cadillac Escalade (pictures at http://tinyurl.com/254jhjo and http://tinyurl.com/299tavo).
hell’s ambient temperature…ha!
Sunday morning political talking points have become rather boring. Meet The Press, one of my prior favorites, hasn’t been the same since Gregory took over. The only saving grace for Sundays is “Sunday Morning” and Zakaria who brings a global perspective to issues that I find exciting
To pick up on your thread of heat, Candy Crowley just interviewed Tom ??? from NASA on Sen. Inhofe favorite subject.
Hottest summer on record, more monsoons (and stronger) than in many, many decades. Summer of fires, floods, and heat. Expect the possibility of our coast lines to lose at least a foot, maybe a meter in the next 50 years. Still trying to determine how bad it might be – never have seen a 100 square mile of Greenland break off from the NORTHERN coast. Poles continuing to melt more and more rapidly.
Looks like everything is unstoppable at this point…so we must start preparing for the changes in our lifetimes and those coming down the pike for future generations.
Stay cool, Mario.
Janine, I feel exactly as you do about Meet the Press. David Gregory is shallow and keeps asking the same question in a different way. As he did this morning with General Petreus. Then Gregory has to distract from General Petreus’ answers by doing cut away shots while he is answering Gregory’s questions. Either they think that people have an extremely short attention span or their own is very short.
Fareed Zakaria has an amazing ability to cover subjects with the depth and breadth that is needed to shine a little light.
Heat, let me talk about heat here in Phoenix. It is the monsoon season here, has been for 6 weeks and will continue for another month or so. It is humid, not much rain, but over 100 every day for the past few weeks. The whole State is like being in a Swedish Sauna. I suppose that is punishment from on high for giving the world our non-elected governor, Jan Brewer.
About the only time I watch MTP these days is when Rachel Maddow is on. She’s the best voice NBC has. Howeve3r, if they made her the host, they’d probably scare away a lot of potential guests who are scared crapless of facing an intelligent moderator.
Midwest heat is different from southern heat. It’s mid-30s (the thermometer on my front porch is a Celsius one, a souvenir of a trip to Canada; I also have a complete set of metric cooking gear) and humid. Milwaukee does have the good fortune of being right on the edge of a giant reservoir of cool water which moderates things if you’re within a few miles of the shore, but it can still get into the 40s inland (easy reference pont – body temp in C is 37, not 98.6). I spent a year in central Minnesota once. With no big lake nearby, the summers and winters were brutal extremes of heat and cold. We have been getting some truly spectacular thunderstorms every week or so. Last month, a giant sinkhole opened up at a major intersection and swallowed a Cadillac Escalade (pictures at http://tinyurl.com/254jhjo and http://tinyurl.com/299tavo).
Holy cow, E.A., that sinkhole is humongous. Scary.
I was watching “This Week” today and I got confused and thought I was watching FOX news instead.