Some news that’s surfacing slowly is Iran’s new bluster on refining higher grade uranium. Russia and Israel seem to be talking the same language, while China still isn’t willing to sign on to harsh sanctions, something SecDef Gates is promising will come sooner rather than later. Even as it will take some time to reconfigure [...] [...more]
I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women’s movement especially when I’m walking behind it. – Rush Limbaugh Via Media Matters Isn’t he just charming? He loves women, just not liberalism. But thinks feminism has “led women [...] [...more]
Palin’s op-ed today comes complete with links to her Twitter and Facebook page. Not that she’s recruiting supporters for 2012 or anything. She defends herself, but also makes the broader case for the Tea Party movement, which others have mentioned as well. That having started out as crazy “death panel” “birthers,” the movement has picked [...] [...more]
–updated– The video is a demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem that ended in arrests and detentions, which caused quite a stir back in January. Discontent in some quarters is rising in Israel over freedom of speech and assembly issues, but also the rights of women, including a dispute about bus segregation that’s turned into quite [...] [...more]
Big primary day in the 2010 election season, with all sorts of things happening. Under the radar the 2012 season also begins, as does a battle likely to come in the Senate Democratic leadership fight, with feelings that Sen. Harry Reid may be heading for a loss. Amidst this we get a one-issue marketing magazine [...] [...more]
Scott Brown doesn’t even have a business card, but people are asking him about 2012. My favorite part of the Walters interview is that Brown has “no regrets” about his nude Cosmo spread. Brown told Barbara Walters “you have to have a sense of humor about yourself,” and links the centerfold to many of [...] [...more]
Comes from the Alfalfa Club annual dinner, compliments of Show Me Stater, retiring Sen. Kit Bond. “Secretary Hillary Clinton wasn’t at the State of the Union because she was in London. Which was a relief to the White House — they were afraid she might have been in Iowa.” – Sen. Kit Bond I met Mr. Bond [...] [...more]
“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and [...] [...more]
“The movie was created with the idea of establishing a vehicle to chip away at the decision,” said Nick Nyhart, president of Public Campaign, a group that opposed Thursday’s decision. “It was part of a very clear strategy to undo McCain-Feingold.” – Citizens United used ‘Hillary: The Movie’ to take on McCain-Feingold I guess the right-wing [...] [...more]
Anyone think they’ll get a Pulitzer Prize for their groundbreaking reporting? A story so big that it could have ended in a disaster for the Democratic Party if Edwards had gotten the nomination. The what ifs of the primary season ring through this story on many angles. The New York Times missed it, the Washington [...] [...more]
–updated– A Democratic operative familiar with the get-out-the-vote push by Martha Coakley’s team and boosted late in the game by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they’ll vote for Scott Brown. – [...] [...more]
Once upon a time… Martha Coakley said she would not have voted for the House health care bill with Stupak in it. If the Democratic leadership had followed the lead of many liberals and progressives in the party we wouldn’t be in this mess in Massachusetts. Democratic arrogance in not listening has compounded the problem. It’s [...] [...more]
The Boston Globe has a late story on election eve reality. Via Nate Silver, it’s 3 to 1, Brown favored. Markos’s analysis via Twitter earlier today: We’re about to learn whether Obama can deliver electoral votes. I don’t agree. It’s been talked about for some time that Coakley took several weeks off after she won the primary. [...] [...more]
Obama comes to the rescue of Martha Coakley in Boston. Will it work? Ben Smith tweets what I’ve been hearing. Charlie Cook’s predictable pronouncement, via Mike Allen: “This past Thursday, Jan. 14, The Cook Political Report moved the open Massachusetts Senate seat rating from lean Democrat to toss-up, having moved it from solid Democrat to lean Democratic [...] [...more]
updated The Democrats in Massachusetts, led by Martha Coakley, have run an embarrassing campaign. That said, when Scott Brown says “I’m not sure about that,” when referring to whether Barack Obama’s mother was married or if she had him out of wedlock, it makes the case for voting against this ignorant cretin. Besides, who cares if she [...] [...more]
