Colin Powell has been on my sh*t list since he agreed to become Secretary of State for Bush’s first term. My opinion didn’t improve when he went to the U.N. and dutifully pushed the tissue-paper thin argument about Saddam’s WMDs. When I watched his endorsement of Obama, I not only felt better about Powell, but [...]
This whole $700 billion bailout thing has me riled. I do think there is a time and place for the government to step in, but I don’t believe this is it. These banks got greedy. End of story. I heard a great Fresh Air interview with a NYT economy writer last night, and it really [...]
I received an email this afternoon from a well-intentioned friend of mine. The email listed a bunch of books Sarah Palin supposedly sought to have banned when she became mayor of a small Alaskan town. Since there were so many amazing classics in the list, my B.S. detector went off. I looked it up on [...]
Obama’s campaign announced Joe Biden as their VP pick today. I didn’t know much about Biden, so I looked up some info on him. Good Points Authored the Violence Against Women Act supports biodiesel and other renewable energies, but not ethanol (yes!) supports a guest-worker visa program voted to prevent nuclear proliferation advocates following the [...]
