Archive for January, 2007

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Gerard Baker has written the equivalent of a Stephen King story in his article today regarding what he calls “Hillary Clinton’s shameless political reconstructive surgery.”
There are many reasons people think Mrs Clinton will not be elected president. She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure; the American people don’t want to relive the psychodrama [...]

Discrimination as Practiced and Approved by the Congressional Black Caucus

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I can’t really say that I’m surprised by this:
As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Now that he’s a freshman in [...]

South Texas Surprise

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

When I woke up this morning at 6:00 a.m., all of the streets here in San Antonio were iced over. In fact, the bridges on the local highways were so bad that most of them were closed to all traffic. My own car was so iced over that it took me twenty minutes of running [...]

Pelosi Carries on Democratic Tradition

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Democrat Nancy Pelosi has been using the word bi-partisan in almost every speech and news conference she’s had since before the mid-term elections. If you go to her website and do a search for the word bipartisan you get 236 hits. However, now that the Democrats have won the majorities in both Houses of Congress, [...]