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Archive for August, 2007

The Clintons: Buy One, Get One

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Say “Hillary Clinton” and this is what a lot of Democrats see.

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Here’s one of Ariel Sharon and George Bush.

Karl Rove: History Will Judge Bush as “a Far-Sighted Leader”

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Does anyone agree with Karl Rove that history will Judge Bush as “a far-sighted leader”?
NRO-The Washington Post scorned President Truman as a “spoilsman” who “underestimated the people’s intelligence.” New York Times columnist James Reston wrote off President Eisenhower as “a tired man in a period of turbulence.” At the end of President Reagan’s second term, [...]

Va.’s Sen. Warner won’t run in 2008

Friday, August 31st, 2007

How much this hurt the GOP hopes for taking back the Senate?
USATODAY=Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia said Friday he will not seek a sixth term in 2008, offering Democrats a valuable opportunity to challenge the Republican Party for the seat and possibly expand their one-vote Senate majority.
Warner, 80, one of the most authorative voices [...]

Back to Racism in the South

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Jay Bookman wrote a column in the AJC this week about racism in Georgia ‘heard’ at the Masters this year.
Congress just extended portions of the laws giving the Federal government power to stop institutional racism in the former slave states.
And, this morning Houston is coming clean over the “Ghetto Handbook” created allegedly by six district [...]

Federal Housing Adminstration to help refi at-risk loans

Friday, August 31st, 2007

If this is not a bailout what is it?
I will say with the risk of bank failures it is not a bad idea. It will help the homeowners who have some equity and adjust payments to what people can afford. This is not ideal but considering lawmakers were asleep at the wheel it is a [...]

New airport turban checks upset Sikhs in US

Friday, August 31st, 2007

This is classic example of sound security verses the politically correct crowd. I have been flying on a weekly basis for close to 20 years.
Post-9/11 frequent flyers will tell you it is not easy to fly anymore. I do think the system could use improvement, yet I am all for checking people out for [...]

Open Blogging

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Open Blogging Opportunity!
I do want to thank all of you for listening to the show and telling your friends!
Our rating book came back and we have grown the show by over 350%!!!!
The program director said he could not believe how fast we have grown!
UPDATE WE GREW ANOTHER 56% THIS LAST QUARTER!!!!!
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
Any topic [...]

Polk judge rules against gay marriage ban

Friday, August 31st, 2007

If this goes to the Supreme Court who will win? And will this be an issue in 08?
DMR-A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage.
The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state’s prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage [...]

Picking a President

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Who is right?
FROM USA TODAY
Parties step in to stop primary leapfrog. It’s about time.
Finally, some adult supervision is coming to the process of picking presidential nominees. And not a moment too soon.
Republican and Democratic party officials have stepped in to try to stop states from leapfrogging each other to set earlier and earlier primaries. The [...]

The Mexican Rosa Parks?

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Is this not an insult to the memory of Rosie Parks?
TH-Is Elvira Arellano — the recently deported Mexican illegal alien — the new Rosa Parks?
Some of her supporters describe her this way. But Arellano’s credentials as a “role model,” to say the least, fall short. Indeed, even some “immigrant rights activists” find the comparison [...]

Justice Dept. Investigating Gonzales’s Testimony

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Is this why Gonzales quit?
WP-The Justice Department is investigating whether departing Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales gave false or misleading testimony to Congress on a broad range of issues, including the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program and the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year, the lead investigator said today.
The disclosure by Inspector General [...]

BusinessWeek & the Labor Shortage Myth

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Business Week has been curiously reality based about wages and immigration, considering who buys their advertising. They again debunk the notion that there is a labor shortage and we must open up the immigration spigots.
BusinessWeek: …A North American economist at Merrill Lynch…is one of a number of economists who say the concerns about too few [...]

Don Siegelman

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I don’t know if any of you have been following this story, but with the resignations of Gonzo and Turd Blossom this past week, I’ve got a sense that this man is at the center of why they’re suddenly gone.  Don Siegelman was formerly the governor of Alabama, as well as the Attorney General, and [...]

China says toy recall scare shows protectionist agenda

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Do you trust the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper that food, saftey and work standards are no ploblem in China?
Yahoo- Mattel has only itself to blame for a huge toy recall that has stoked global alarm about Chinese-made goods, state media said on Thursday, charging that a slew of foreign safety scares had exposed a [...]

Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Which report on Iraq do you trust and why?
WP-GAO Draft at Odds With White House
Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the [...]