Last week’s Sunday Discussion Group went pretty well, so here’s another. This week’s topic: Best Political Speech of the TV era. I’m thinking that would include any speech delivered since, say, 1960. This, of course, can include speeches short and long, from Dems and Republicans, partisan and non-partisan. (If you have a link to the […]
Guest Post by Morbo Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. claims to be a moderate Republican. He was recently handed a perfect opportunity to prove it but dropped the ball. Maryland’s General Assembly passed a very modest gay-rights bill. Ehrlich couldn’t seem to muster up the gumption to scrawl a signature on it. Instead, he […]
Guest Post by Morbo I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Head Start, probably because I’m an alumnus of the program. I was probably one of the first kids in America to go through Head Start in the late 1960s. To be honest, I don’t remember much about it, but I’ve always […]
Guest Post by Morbo I grew up on the original “Star Trek” and “Star Wars.” In the mid 1970s, I was also captivated by an obscure British sci-fi series called “Space: 1999” that dealt with a bunch of people with disco hair who wore flares and lived on a moonbase. Yes, I was a geek […]
Guest Post by Morbo During the 2004 elections, Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist stood outside Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and promised residents that they had nothing to fear by tossing Tom Daschle out of office and replacing him with John Thune. Frist said he would see to it that Ellsworth remained open. […]
Guest Post by Morbo Wal-Mart is not only a bunch of union-busting right-wing creeps, they’re also bullies. Case in point: Calvert County, Md., has a local ordinance limiting box stores to 75,000 square feet. Unable to get a waiver, Wal-Mart officials announced plans to build a store within the limits and erect a smaller one […]
There’s a lot of talk online today about how — and whether — centrist Dems can strike a compromise with Republicans on judicial nominations. There are competing ideas about what a plan would look like, but here’s the way the Washington Post described the current state of negotiations: Negotiators said the toughest task is building […]
On the 78th day of Bush 60-day “tour” to promote Social Security privatization, the president went to Milwaukee for another predictable event. While the tired speech and scripted Q-and-A was about as engaging as watching paint dry, there was one interesting, and important, development that shouldn’t get lost in the shuffle: Reporters no longer care […]
The New York Times Sunday Magazine will run a cover feature Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum this week, which will offer all kinds of interesting thoughts and perspectives, including a quote from a former Senate aide who calls the senator “a Catholic missionary who happens to be in the Senate” and the fact that some […]
Supporters of stem-cell research believe, despite rhetoric to the contrary, that the president really would sign the Castle-DeGette bill, even though it undoes his 2001 policy, if the legislation reached his desk with bi-partisan support. The trick, as they see it, is finding some “wiggle room” for Bush to offer him some political cover from […]