You know, all this “hope” talk lately has been getting to me. Maybe it’s my father’s roots in Louisiana, where the cash is in the freezer, or perhaps it’s my mom’s ties to Arkansas, where outsiders just...
If your skies were clear and you happened to look southeast Monday evening soon after sunset, here’s what you might have seen: The bright crescent is the Moon, the brighter “star” is Venus and the dimmer dot is Jupiter, here in a...
Cross-posted on techPresident and K Street Cafe Now that the details are slooowly creeping out and we have a clearer idea of the Obama election team’s online numbers, what conclusions can we draw for the future? Right off the bat, Jose Antonio...
Well, David Almacy and I may only have managed to get on the air for a couple of minutes on election night, plus a few more live on the web (REAL news kept happening and bumping us out of the queue), but we WERE a part of Fox 5’s crack...
Ninety years ago today, my father’s father was an American infantryman in France, and I wonder if he actually heard the sound: for four years, the artillery of both sides had belched shells non-stop, battering away at the siege lines dug into...
A new country. Not too shabby.
– cpd
So here we are at the end: of campaign 2008 certainly, and of the modern conservative movement perhaps. Boo! That’s all McCain and his supporters have left. Obama is a “Marxist,” a “socialist” and a...
Hell of a season, eh? We’ve just about had everything — from lipstick on a pig all the way to a full-on financial panic, with two ongoing wars and the lingering effects of an oil-price shock playing in the background. Too much too much...
Here’s something to keep you busy for a couple of hours on a dreary Friday afternoon: a comprehensive collection of political campaign television commercials dating back to the 1950s. Revealing for more than just political reasons, since they...
(Hope I don’t have to eat my words on this one…. Update: Nope.) On the second night of the Republican Convention, let me depart from our normal programming here to predict that the Palin pick will be an absolute disaster for John McCain...