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Rick Santorum, United States Senator from Pennsylvania and resident fanatical right-wing nut-job just doesn’t get it. In fact, the Republican Party just doesn’t get it. They have absolutely lost their footing on reality and they have no plans at all when it comes to the war in Iraq or the a global struggle against violent [...]

Katherine Harris, best known for her roll in tipping the 2000 election between Al and W. launched her very own website today. She is, as many of you already know, running for U.S. Senate against former astronaut and current Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. Though the White House and Tubby McRoveberg attempted to draft any [...]

It sucks, money does make the world go round. The Democrats have learned this the hard way in the past three decades. Slowly losing footholds in the areas that matter the most, the media and the message. Conservative thinktanks are getting so much more money than the Democrats it’s allowed them to begin to infiltrate [...]

Today, the Pentagon announced that it’ll be sending more troops to Iraq to deal with the probability of increased violence due to the escalating insurgency. It seems that, “because the insurgents have tended to intensify their attacks when key political milestones [are] approached,” that it’s perfectly reasonable to send more troops over to, well, die. [...]

Now here’s something that even the most apolitical beer swiggers of us can get down with. Back in April, the beer making Anheuser-Busch Co. wrote a check to the South Carolina Republican party for $5,000. Due to some bureaucratic slip (using a bit too much of the product?) the check was mailed to the SC [...]

It’s a perfectly respectable, and at one time quite nice, Ethan Allen love seat that I can’t get into my apartment, and honestly, am tired of.

Via Tattered Coat and ALa I found this remarkable post by CBTFW, a soldier who fought, and blogged, in Iraq. Though the post has been removed from the site due to complaints by the Army, CBTFW explains in stark detail the difference between CNN’s representation of a firefight in Mosul, and his own experience: Shortly [...]

It can only be called a debacle at this point. Eagles training camp started on Monday and while T.O. is there he seems to be causing problems. Westbrook is holding out of camp and Corey Simon, as expected, isn’t there either. Fortunately the Inquirer is doing a fantastic job of feeding Eagles green fever with [...]

Because the media just loves a bleeder, this year’s sports coverage, when not obsessing over T.O., has focused on steroids in baseball. Congress, taking quite seriously its mantle of the world’s most deliberative body, decided that their time would be best spent investigating these media rumors. Nevermind that whole illegal war thing. Rafael Palmeiro, the [...]

This morning, like most mornings, I sat down at my computer and checked the nation’s top stories. I am often troubled by what is considered to be “top news” (aka a short, stuby old guy named Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, etc.)… But, today I am troubled even more by what I see. [...]