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Politics On City Time

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Just got this email — in my city email inbox, mind you — from my uwanted friends at the SEIU:
Dear Friend,
Earlier this week the SEIU New Media team wrote to you about what our union is doing online to help get Barack Obama elected President of the United States.
Over 25,000 people have […]

“Doesn’t Play Well With Others”

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

A few days ago, after Mayor White pitched a fit over the distribution of some relief supplies, I expressed some concern over Mayor White’s tendency to make harsh demands and slam people whom he felt didn’t meet his expectations:
I am rather disturbed about the Mayor’s tendency to demand other people make heads roll. In general, […]

2007: Year of the Jacksonian Revolt?

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

(Edit: Oops! Originally posted with the wrong title, drawn from the next article in this series.)
I have, since reading Meade’s magazine article distilling Divine Providence, in which he discusses the Jacksonian tradition, wanted a political party based on the principles espoused by that tradition, and none other. Up until a month ago, I settled […]

Abramoff and “Indian Nickels”

Friday, January 6th, 2006

But I’m really posting to draw your attention to Nick Danger’s post over on RedState.com There he reaches back to a 2001 post from the incredible and sexy (drool!) Michelle Malkin, to shed some light on just what Abramoff might have been doing when he disbursed all that money from the Indian tribes –it may not have been theirs to start with:

All the News That’s Print to Fit

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

The top news in the whole city is that a football team somewhere else in Texas is playing in the Rose Bowl? Excuse me for thinking that sports is, well, sports. Not news. Gosh, if it weren’t for the DeLay hit piece, nothing else would have appeared above the fold.

Sic’em, Greg!

Monday, November 21st, 2005

So… how do they count the violations? I mean, if I play a Sony CD on my computer and then loan it to a friend to play it on his, does that count as one violation or two? Or none, since we just broke Sony’s insane EULA? And is it just me, or is this so farcical that the opposing counsel should be named Costello? (I don’t mean Elvis, either.)

The Gospel According to John

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

But when one newspaper’s views are so widely at variance with the market it serves–such as being pro-criminal in a county which sends more people to death row than many Western countries, while portraying Cheny, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Rove as hideous torturers, is it any wonder they have to GIVE their birdcage liner away?

Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik.

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Well, our good buddy Ronnie Earle, up in Austin, may have just shot himself in the foot big time. First he gets a pair of hightly touted (by the MSM) indictments, that not only could not stand the blinding glare of public scrutiny, they couldn’t stand a flicking candle of indifference at midnight.