Joanne Jacobs, weblogger and author of Our School will be having a reading at Schwartz Bookshop, 2262 S. Kinnickinnic Ave at 7 pm. I’ll be there, and hope you will be too.
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Speaker Pelosi got her Bush-bashing victory. The House passed the Iraq emergency funding bill loaded with pork and military micromanaging designed to drive the U.S. out of Iraq faster than al Qaeda with a dozen tactical nukes:
President Bush slammed Democrats on Friday after the House narrowly approved a supplemental war spending bill that includes an […]
It looks like Speaker Pelosi has her ducks in a row and can pass her Iraq emergency funding bill with all the micro-managing strings attatched:
Even more than the conservative Democrats leery of appearing to micromanage the war, House liberals have been the main obstacle to leadership efforts to put a timeline on the withdrawal of […]
Note: Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime blares loudly through my speakers. Perfect music to launch into an angry diatribe. This is your only warning.
Some people never learn. Last year, the initial lineup for the WisPolitics.com “Blog Summit” read like a typical political panel. WisPolitics.com took a lot of heat and made positive changes. You’d think the same […]
Joking about breaking your wife’s rib makes for cringe-worthy television, but I’ll give John Edwards a pass. He was trying to liven up a tense situation, and it’s the kind of (bad) humor I’d use to cut the tension.
[via PoliticalDerby.com]
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Newt Gingrich may not be running for President but his 527 organization American Solutions for Winning the Future has raked in $2.1 million. Most of it is from two people so his financial support is money-deep but narrow.
The goal of American Solutions is to “create a wave of change that meets America’s challenges, seizes our […]
Tommy Thompson says he’s about to announce he’s running for President. He’s put together a staff and betting it all on success in Iowa. But he’s also taking a position on a New York financial firm:
HealthShares, a group of exchange traded funds tracking various health care, life science and biotechnology stocks, said Wednesday that it […]
Newt Gingrich found the Hillary Clinton-bashing 1984 video “clever” but destructive adding nothing constructive to the political dialogue. For him it’s “the Entertainment Tonight version of governing this country.”
[via Little Miss Attila]
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The big news with John Edwards isn’t that he’s dropping out because of his wife’s cancer; he’s running despite Elizabeth Edwards’ health:
The recurrence of the cancer — this time on Elizabeth Edwards’ bone — presents a setback for the couple, both personally and politically. But both said the cancer was treatable and that they would […]
The House Democrats’ Iraq emergency funding bill isn’t just laden with pork but according to Ed Meese and a group of legal scholars it’s unconstitutional:
Congressional leaders in both parties would do well to read closely the letter they received Wednesday from former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese, law professors from the University of California at […]
Sadly Milwaukee County is going the way of New Orleans:
If you can imagine a typical baseball crowd leaving Miller Park and never returning, then you can grasp the decline in Milwaukee County’s population during the early years of the 21st century.
Between 2000 and 2006, Milwaukee County lost 25,067 residents, according to new estimates released today […]
John Edwards canceling campaign events and announcing a news conference with his wife today doesn’t bring me confidence about Mrs. Edwards’ health:
John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat making a second bid for the presidency, announced late Wednesday night that he would hold a news conference Thursday, a day after he and his wife, Elizabeth, […]
U.S. Attorneys serve at the President’s pleasure. Although it’s not traditional to fire USAs midterm it is legal. No one claims laws were broken in the firings. The Democrats want to know if the USAs were fired because they were persuing cases the White House didn’t want them to persue. They’re looking for corruption. That’s […]
Steve Coll in The New Yorker reports on the Department of Homeland Security’s quest to surround the U.S. with radiation sensors to detect incoming nuclear or dirty bombs. Billions plan to be spent for a defense that critics say won’t be very effective.
What would be better are counterterrorist agencies capable of discovering nuclear plots […]
When Fred Thompson began filling in for Paul Harvey (last year?) he was boring and indistinguishable other than his bold voice. This next round, conveniently aligned with talk of a possible Presidential bid, he’s sounding better. He finally got his groove. This commentary on Mexican illegal immigration is plain-spoken, to the point, and possibly self-written. […]
