Big News, 12/14/07

December 14, 2007 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Bush, Huckabee, bad journalism, democrats, republicans, torture
Tags: Barack Obama, baseball, bolten, Bush, clemens, corzine, death penalty, democrats, energy bill, Huckabee, republicans, rove, sear's tower, senate, sosa, steroids, torture, waterboarding

The gang of misfits that supposedly plotted to blow up the Sear’s Tower (right when Bush needed a big terror scare to distract us) were all either acquitted or effectively acquitted through mistrial. Who saw that coming? And here’s a more damning look at the “7 Boobs” and the administration tendency to, how [...]

The Opinion Pages 12/13/07

December 13, 2007 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Huckabee, good jounalism, immigration
Tags: clinton, fair tax, Huckabee, immigration, jimmy carter, lou dobbs, obama, oprah, taxes

Tracking some of the best from the editorial pages around the media.

Amity Shlaes’ thorough debunking of the folly of the Fair Tax, the package Huckabee is pushing and not telling us the truth about.
Huckabee as Jimmy Carter Redux? Hmmm…
Dick Morris gives us the reasons why Oprah’s endorsement will be a “big boost” to Obama.  [...]

Iowa Democratic Debate

December 13, 2007 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Edwards, democrats
Tags: barack, clinton, debate, democrats, dodd, economy, gravel, hillary, iowa, iraq, kucinich, obama

Ahh, a little civility.  But no respect for Kucinich.
The Democrats, for the most part, managed to pull off something the Republicans simply couldn’t, which is put forward their ideas for America while actually answering the questions posed to them and doing it within the time limits imposed by the debate format and while maintaining respect [...]