Honestly, if North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Vernon Robinson didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him. A few months ago, I noted his first bizarre TV ad that you’d swear was a parody making fun of fringe right-wingers, but alas, it’s entirely sincere. Now that the campaign is entering the homestretch, Robinson has decided to […]
I can vaguely appreciate the fact that it’s possible — not likely, but possible — that a large asteroid will collide with the earth at some point over the next few millennia. For that matter, I’m pleased there are really smart people looking into it, as evidenced by the International Astronomical Union setting up a […]
If there’s a logical defense for this, I can’t think of it. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on Tuesday against three pharmacists in upstate New York claiming that the pharmacists “refused to fill prescriptions for refill doses of emergency contraception,” the Associated Press reports. What is particularly striking about this case […]
If Morbo weren’t out of town today, I’m certain he’d be here making fun of this. Workers at a chocolate company [in Fountain Valley, Calif.] have discovered a 2-inch-tall column of [tag]chocolate[/tag] drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to traditional depictions of the [tag]Virgin Mary[/tag]. Since the discovery of the drippings under a […]
I wasn’t terribly surprised when the national [tag]media[/tag] hyperventilated over the latest details in the [tag]JonBenet[/tag] [tag]Ramsey[/tag] [tag]murder[/tag] case. In fact, it’s been a fairly slow summer for over-the-top media fluff fests — I can’t remember the last time I was warned about an epidemic of shark attacks — so I suppose new outlets were […]
Now that Joe Lieberman has lost much of his pre-primary staff — some were fired, some resigned — the candidate is filling critical campaign needs. TNR’s Jason Zengerle noted today that Lieberman has hired Josh Isay, who “has some Senate campaign experience with Chuck Schumer,” as his new media consultant. There’s a bit more to […]
The ultra-conservative Washington Times reports today on one of the rare Bush-appointed heroes in Iraq — and why the administration is doing whatever it can to undermine him. There is a battle going on between Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), and bureaucrats responsible for thousands of rebuilding contracts in Iraq. […]
When most people think about the religious right’s biggest names, folks like Robertson, Falwell, and Dobson come to mind. But there’s a TV preacher in Florida named D. James Kennedy who enjoys a huge following, has signficant political influence, and hosts widely-attended conferences that he calls “Reclaiming America for Christ.” And what do eager followers […]
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: * Further proof that Pennsylvania’s Senate race is getting a little closer comes by way of a new Strategic Vision (R) vision poll, which shows [tag]Bob Casey[/tag] (D) leading [tag]Rick Santorum[/tag] (R), 47% […]
The one thing that’s irked me all week about [tag]George Allen[/tag]’s “[tag]macaca[/tag]” flap is Allen’s choice of slurs. Sure, Allen has a race problem. And sure, Allen clearly hoped to demean and humiliate S.R. Sidarth with an ugly insult that the senator almost certainly knew quite well. What’s more, it also seems clear that the […]