Sen. Ted Kennedy passed this week after a 15 month battle with a malignant glioma, a type of brain cancer. While the media seems to be focusing on his “political achievements” and all the friends he had on Capitol Hill, Mary Jo Kopechne’s death seems to have been forgotten. Read more »
My boyfriend and I had long talked about whether Pres. George W. Bush had suffered a stroke sometime early on in his presidency. He had been an artful speaker as Governor of Texas, fast on the draw. As president those skills began to wane considerably. I never once believed he was as dumb as the media liked to portray him. If not a stroke, maybe belated effects of his earlier alcoholism had hit him hard and at a bad time.
Much like the people surrounding FDR kept the public from knowing he was in a wheelchair, Bush’s team did an artful job of letting the public believe this was just President Bush’s down-home Texas personality shining through. People in Texas, the Bush camp implied, maybe talk a little plainer and a little slower. Bush, the explanation went, was an Everyman.
The video below is a side by side comparison of Bush’s gubernatorial debate in Texas in 1994 and a later debate in 2004. The difference in speech is striking.
I rarely catch the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, but it appears I missed out on the funniest Palin piece of the month.
What I adore most about Palin is her unpredictability, that nothing in her life has been done by the book. I think she will continue to astound us for years to come.
Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape, Read more »
Why are politicians involved in gay marriage? Why is government involved in marriage at all?
“For the kids.”
Some people say being raised by both a mother and a father in the same household is best for children. If government wants to incentivize one woman and one man Read more »
I believe in capitalism. With any science or philosophy, the point is to question and prod until the best answer is found and to stick with that answer until an even better one is discovered. People accuse me of saying Read more »
With all the ills in the country and the world at large, it is high time Pres. Obama get off my flat screen and behind a desk. He somehow has time, long after the election, to appear on “The Tonight Show,” “The Daily Show,” Read more »
Laura Ling, Euna Lee, US journalists doing a story on North Korean women fleeing into North China, were captured by North Korean border guards three months ago. After a 5 day kangaroo trial, they have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. Read more »
American David Gabriel “Gabe” Watson, the man accused of letting his wife of 11 days die by A) not attempting to retrieve her when she had problems scuba diving on their Australian honeymoon or B) intentionally harming her under water, has pleaded guilty. However, he will only Read more »
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