Man, I wish he’d tell us how he really feels: That interview confirmed what’s become even more clear in the past few days — McCain’s selection was a joke. She (like me) has absolutely no business being a vice-presidential nominee. Let’s start with the interview, and then I’ll make some more general points about why [...]
Archive for September 11th, 2008
Publius Sugar-Coats It Again
Posted in Foreign Policy, News & Current Events, Politics on September 11, 2008 | 19 Comments »
The Score
Posted in Politics on September 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
PolitiFact.com has some nice summaries of the attacks made against Barack Obama and the attacks against John McCain, and assesses the relative truth or falsity of those attacks. It has seemed to me, following this campaign, that the attacks made by John McCain and his surrogates are more frequent and less true than those made [...]
Who Knew?
Posted in Bloggin, Humor on September 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Apparently our very own KTK writes for the San Francisco Chronicle under the pen name “Mark Morford”: Translation: “clean coal” is not only one of the most insidious, repugnant oxymorons — right up there with “friendly fire” and “conservative think tank” and “Alaskan teen virgin” — it’s also one of the deadliest. …snip… Two generic [...]
9/11
Posted in Terrorism on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been seven years since that terrible day. The silver lining here is that we can rest easier knowing that Osama bin Laden has been captured, that the Taliban has lost their influence in Afghanistan, and that the newly-completed Freedom Tower on the WTC site stands proudly as a [...]