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 ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
If one could meld the Republican presidential candidates into a single person, what would emerge? I was thinking along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde and the result, as demonstrated ...
A friend forwarded the following as a reminder of the effect of 84 years on our world. It’s a 1928 auto repair mailer sent on a penny postcard.
I haven’t done the math but I’d guess that the prices in the mailer would equate to today’s prices, but how nice would it be to walk into your favorite saloon and tell your buddies that you got new brakes installed and the garage only charged $1.25 for labor.
The Model T was introduced on Oct. 1, 1908. It had a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, reached a top speed of about 45 miles per hour, got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and weighed 1,200 pounds. It was the ninth of Henry Ford’s production cars.
It had a 10-gallon fuel tank and could run on kerosene, petrol, or ethanol, but it couldn’t drive uphill if the tank was low, because there was no fuel pump; people got around this design flaw by driving up hills in reverse.
More than 15,000,000 Model T’s were built and sold. A modest ceremony on May 26, 1927, marked the formal end of Model T production.
The car was introduced with a price tag of $850. The Model T later sold for as little as $260, without extras, because of production savings Henry Ford passed on to customers.
In 1914, Ford, with 13,000 employees, produced about 300,000 cars while 299 other companies with 66,350 employees produced about 280,000 vehicles.
I also dug up this pic of my grandad driving one of the few Model-Ts to be found in the town of Campobasso in southern Italy. As you can see, the man was way ahead of his time.
Batocchio over at Vagabond Scholar, carries on the great tradition of Al Weisel in asking bloggers, the big and not so big, to submit their favorite post of the year. The list is a great way to catch up on writing you missed, or more important, to get introduced to some talented political bloggers you never knew existed.
I was fortunate enough to have been asked to submit a piece and I did so with no real idea what to send in from the 1000 plus posts I wrote this year. In any case, check out the 2011 Roundup. You might very well discover a gem or two. There’s a big world of wonderful bloggers out there. And feel free to write up and link to your favorite blogs in the Comments section below.
One of the hypothesis concerning the origin of modern humans is that we emerged out of Africa 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. By 1804, there were 1 billion of us on the planet. Over the next 200 years, we found a way to increase that number to 7 billion (give or take 56 million).
If you’re not quite sure how we accomplished that feat, here’s a short NPR video which helps explain it.
I haven’t done the math but I’d guess that the prices in the mailer would equate to today’s prices, but how nice would it be to walk into your favorite saloon and tell your buddies that you got new brakes installed and the garage only charged $1.25 for labor.
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