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Anybody remember blackface? Considered to both be the advent of black culture growing in the entertainment industry and an evidence of racism based on exaggerated racial stereotypes. In its ugly form, blackface was white people laughing at white people acting like white people thought black people acted.
Courtesy of the CBS Website, I’ve been watching Numb3rs [...]

I like this part of him, and for this reason we conservatives ought to do what we must to quell our gag reflexes and vote McCain into office.
In a speech on his philosophy and standards regarding the Supreme Court of the United States, John McCain specifically referenced Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Justice Samuel A. [...]

Because I don’t take politics too seriously.
I sympathize with Ms. Green: there is nobody I really like out there right now.
I am a moral absolutist, an incurable optimist, and purist, and an artist. I deal in complex absolutes and relish it.
Politics is not about absolutes though. Politics is the business compromise.
The goal of politics is [...]

On government responsibility and prerogative and power:
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~P.J. O’Rourke
“If the Internet has taught us anything, it’s that it’s pretty presumptuous to predict what the future will be. We should be very, very cautious about imposing regulations based on what we think [...]

Watching this news report regarding a real problem, the issue of blind people not being able to hear the quiet hybrid and electric cars to know to avoid them, I was both dismayed and heartened.
Near the end of the report the reported says with apparent relief “the government is going to study this, we have [...]

Political Power, unlike money, is a zero sum game.
In order for one to gain and consolidate more of it, another must lose it through neglect and carelessness or bitter struggle.
At the same time, power is not necessarily directly correlated with size. A large organization can run fluidly and freely given good leadership and skilled and [...]

The words of Jeremiah Wright, the wrong words he’s spoken and made a central part of his message for the 20 years Barak Hussein Obama has considered him a spiritual leader, to some, they are truth.
Mr. Wright, for I do not consider him to be worthy of reverence or title beyond that of a normal [...]

It is not a normal thing, by any means, for IPandora to link to the DailyKo(ok)s and it’s assortment of nutroots, but truth, wherever found, is still truth.
BarbinMD wrote today:
Spitzer’s actions are in no way a reflection of Clinton’s judgement or character. But it does put an open letter sent out this weekend by super [...]

         The New York Stock Exchange has been down a lot over the past couple of months.  It’s down about fifteen percent from its high of just over 14,000.  Many people are wondering why and how far it is going to fall.  This is my attempt to explain why it has been falling.
            Our story [...]

In the Cleveland Plain Dealer Blog, V. David Sartin lays out differences in the two Democrat candidates health-care plans.
Can two practical failures, moral evils, and spectacularly bad ideas be compared?
Hillary Clinton and Barak Hussein Obama can claim as many times as she pleases that their plan will only cost X, but when the plan is [...]