This was from an e-mail discussion with a friend, and Greg-the-husband thought it merited its own blog entry. Hey, who am I to argue? If the poll numbers are to be believed, just about everyone thinks that it’s time to leave Iraq, admit the whole thing was a failure and blame Bush. I’m not saying […]

Well, shoot. Awful glad today that I’m not a Calfornia native anymore. Stuff like these ballot defeats really gets me down.
Voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 76, the governor’s centerpiece proposal to slow the growth of state spending. Proposition 77, which would have redrawn legislative and congressional districts, was knocked down by a similar margin.
Failing by slimmer […]

I knew that the liberals would be mightily indignant over any nominee to the court that wasn’t liberal, but it still seems unbelievably hypocritical to call Bush’s response to conservative reaction “pandering to the extreme right.”. Last time I looked, that whole Red State, Blue State thing was still indicating to anyone who wasn’t color […]

I’m not really looking forward to the next couple months. Listening to the news last night, it seems obvious that the next Supreme nominee is going to become a lightning rod for the entire culture war. If Bush nominates the kind of person I wish he would nominate — someone who is actually on the […]

Well, son-of-a-gun.
I was hoping for a less bile-filled write-up of this than the yahoo link above. You can almost hear the boldface in their opening paragraph, can’t you? “Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats […]

I hesitate to say much more about my disappointment over Bush’s Miers nomination, because I think my more detached friends are about to chuck me under the chin and say, “Buck up, sweet pea,” or something like that. They aren’t necessarily less conservative than I am, but they just don’t let any of this stuff […]

This will only be of interest to those with a political bent, but I thought this was interesting commentary from Wall St. Journal’s “Opinion Journal.” The writer is James Taranto. I especially loved the next-to-last paragraph, which I italicized:

Miers Finds Few Buyers
WASHINGTON–When President Bush nominated Harriet Miers on Monday, we saw it as a missed […]

My local paper carried an AP wire story of Bush’s nomination to the Supreme Court with the headline “Bush taps loyalist for court” and sub-head “Miers has never served as judge.” Yep, nothing like the completely unbiased Mainstream Media to leave you wondering what on earth their opinion is. So Harriet Miers name doesn’t appear […]

“It looks like the Houston and Galveston area has really lucked out,” said Max Mayfield, director of the hurricane center.
That came from this article about Hurricane Rita, and now we know for sure that racism played a factor in the paths of the hurricanes. Whites were spared in Texas; blacks weren’t in Louisiana. […]

There’s was lots for everyone to be talking about last Monday, so it’s probably fine that we all missed the fact that Cindy Sheehan has given up any pretense of being a grieving mother standing with a fist and has just gone totally insane, calling for the US military to pull out of “occupied” New […]