Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Republican billionaire Tom Golisano announced yesterday that he will not run for governor in New York this year, despite pleas from several party leaders. Golisano’s decision boosts former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld’s […]
Think whatever you want about Cindy Sheehan; there isn’t much of a defense for this. Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address. “She was asked to cover it up. She did not,” […]
I suspect readers are getting tired of seeing it — I know I’m tired of writing it — but as long as the president continues to misrepresent his warrantless-search program, I feel compelled to call him on it. And since his latest defense was featured in such a high-profile setting last night, it seems particularly […]
It was perhaps the most memorable phrase in the State of the Union, and it’s already been picked up far and wide by a soundbite-starved media: “Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.” Indeed, […]
There was an episode of The Simspons a few years ago in which Springfield faced one of its many crises. Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby called a townhall meeting and pledged to create a “blue-ribbon commission” to investigate and address the emergency. One character responded earnestly, “Did he say a blue-ribbon commission?” Prompting another to say, […]