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Ace has the details, so go see it there. I can’t post the screen shot here because it doesn’t fit good in my site here, so go there to see it.
Essentially it is yet ANOTHER Andi Sully post about the parentage of Trig Palin. A topic that has been exhausted for a long [...]

This is just scary. A bunch of Obama’s fellow travelers- most notably the head of NBC TV ?!?!- have begun the process of actually brainwashing young children into singing songs about the Dear Leader. I mean…. this is like an SNL parody, except it’s…. real. I really can’t believe this.
Anyone who knows [...]

They vote for Democrats. Seriously, remember that movie, with Steve Martin ? It, like this offering from Iowahawk, is brilliant. Brilliant, I say !

From Amy Holmes over at NRO: (yes, I’m stealing the whole thing, because it’s brilliant and it’s brief)
It seems to me that the real problem with [Nancy Pelosi's pre-vote] speech was its illogic. She stridently attacked George Bush’s “failed economic policies” and then, in the same breath, implored members to support his most [...]

Literally. Well, kinda. The contributor of so many of the quotes used on this site has disclosed to the world that he has a cancer. Specifically, in his words, “cancer of the ass”.
His funny reflection here.
The good news is that it should be completely treatable, and shouldn’t slow him down much at [...]

I must admit that the results of the vote this morning came as a bit of a shock to me. Much has been said about the reasons for/against passage, and what the potential fallout may be. The motives of the votes from various members have also been thrown up, ripped apart, and examined [...]

Since the media seems so hell-bent on investigating people, let’s spread the field a little. McCain has gotten mired in bad strategy over the last week or so, but has shown a streak open to game-changing ideas, so here’s one. Start rolling out potential cabinet personnel immediately. There are currently 15 cabinet [...]

The University of Mississippi had one helluva week. First hosting the debate Friday night, which by all measures was one of the most informative and well-run debates in recent memory.
Then, on Saturday, they go into The Swamp and beat the #4 Florida Gators in one HELLUVA game. Of course they got beat up [...]

This crazy itch-bay needs to stop drinking beer at noon on Tuesday.
Is there anything more vapid than some empty-headed celebrity type trying to cash in some street cred to gain political sway, when the only arrow in their quiver is some idiotic slogan ? (come to think of it, isn’t that pretty much the [...]

I gotta say, at this point, I am not feeling optimistic. I think both had good stretches, but overall I think Obama had a better night.
But have no worries, kiddo, I am a geek, so I will watch it two or three more times before I have a full analysis. The lingering feeling [...]

Kathleen Parker has new fare out that, I gotta say, is just so completely bizarre I am not sure where to begin. Here’s a piece of it:
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
The basic [...]

Award winning screenwriter and proud conservative Burt Prelutsky has written a gem over at Townhall.com. Read it all, but here’s the closer:
The brains and values of left-wingers have decomposed to the point where they actually believe Keith Olbermann, Rosie O’Donnell and Chris Matthews make sense and that people like Whoopi Goldberg, Al Franken and [...]

Mario Lopez is to be reunited with his Saved By The Bell co-star Mark-paul Gosselaar for a one-off reunion of the TV show.
I think I just threw up in my mouth just a little.

After pseudo-praise of Paul Krugman I have to have something to wash the filthy taste outta my mouth. Enter stage left- Joe Klein, about whom it can’t be said to “stick with what you know” because, well, he doesn’t know anything.
From his new blather:
John McCain faced another crisis yesterday–a political one, not the financial [...]

I’ve always thought that Krugman was at least marginally credible when he pontificated on economics, and approaching moron levels when discussing politics. Today’s column doesn’t change my opinion.
Now, let me say off the bat that I don’t agree with everything in the piece, and of course he couldn’t close without making a cheap shot [...]

Drill baby drill ! It seems that the Dems really did a bang-up job this year, as they got within a week of the end of FY’08 without ever passing one single appropriations bill. Not. One.
Isn’t that kinda like being the janitor at the local high school and going a whole year [...]

So the Oxford, MS debate is up in the air at the moment. I have mixed feelings on the issue, personally, but let me offer a few thoughts as I work my way through it.
I do think this is a bit of a stunt. Not sure if it’ll play one way or the [...]

I always like to check in to see what the boys up on Lake Erie are up to. And as usual this time of year, they are hip-deep in things that make us southerners just shake our heads….
Preseason hockey ?! Geeze.
(j/k Kev. We luv ya, buddy)

Ya know, I’m pissed about this. Joe Biden just delivered a rambling address in Cincy, and he made two statements that directly admit violations of the Logan Act. No transcript available yet, but here’s the jist of it:
Obama negotiated with the Iraqi government regarding troop levels, or at least tried to.
Obama negotiated with [...]

Chad over at Ace’s realm has an open blog piece up, and it’s just….. damn.
There once was a time when the NYT actually did real journalism. Now this is just getting stupid. The McCain camp and the Obama paper (that’s the New York Times, for you newbies) are having a little lovers spat, [...]

Treacher posts this as an Obama/Biden lap-dog kinda deal, but I see it a little differently.

What I see is a cute, fluffy, adorable little creature with a small mind but a devotion and love for it’s handlers. Handlers who feed and water and pet it on it’s little head every day.
And a dog.
PS: [...]

There seems to be some pushback on the lefty blogs about the whole Biden/FDR/TV thing, so let us take a moment to boil this down, shall we ?
TTA will stipulate that TV was in it’s infancy in 1929, and did in fact exist in Philo T. Farnsworth’s basement or something. TTA will also stipulate [...]

In related news, water is wet, and fire is hot.
Oh, and politicians lie.

Have ya ever noticed that conservatives seem to have a constant struggle with reflective thought ? That is an affliction that the liberals never seem to suffer. We are not thrilled with the specter of a McCain presidency, but we are thankful he is a serious man as opposed to the boy-child that [...]

I’ve been pondering this for a few days. I am not one to discuss race often, mostly because I find it a fruitless discussion in near all cases. Living in the south one of the quickest ways for a conservative to get the ubiquitous “Hitler” gambit played against them is to get into [...]

This piece is priceless. I don’t know that I’ve read this young lady previously, but I shall certainly read her in the future. Kudos to you, Ms. Kristina Goetz.
What’s that ? A few excerpts ? Why of course, dearhearts:
Welcome to Oxford, East Coast Media Elite. I’m sure your advance sheet included [...]

If I have anything to say about it this dire consequence will never come to pass, but….
Do all these people in Alaska not realize that, on a GOP loss, Sarah Palin is still the governor for another 2 years ? Should she and McCain lose in November she will be back in Juneau until [...]

Let it drown. I came to this realization after reading this article, and this portion of same:
We simply cannot know what unintended consequences might be unleashed in the process of a massive acquisition of mortgage assets by the federal government.
Now let’s look at this. The federal government doesn’t HAVE 700 billion spare dollars, [...]

Let me put this as compassionately, as sincerely, and as kindly as I possibly can…..
Boo friggin hoo.
Luis Martínez went from being a successful Dallas businessman to a struggling alfalfa farmer in rural central Mexico because of a North Texas crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Now, that crackdown is squeezing towns across Mexico as immigrant unemployment grows in [...]

This cat over at the Weekly Standard is a genius. I’ll post the whole thing under the fold, but suffice it to say it has a little fun with the whole Palin/email kerfuffle.
Be sure to check all the messages, both subject and sender, and the message that is open. Also, be sure to [...]

Ben Smith at Politico posts, but does not elaborate, on a little-noticed Biden blurb. And of course The Perky One lets it slide, probably because she spent all of history class making goo-goo eyes at the quarterback.
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that [...]

See post below if you don’t understand the reference.
As a tribute to Biden himself, allow me to state with complete confidence the exact opposite of what I said yesterday. OF COURSE Biden agrees with Obama that the McCain ad was just fine. Really. I promise. Why, you may ask ? [...]

Stanley Kurtz at National Review has a piece up regarding Obama’s long-standing ties to William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist, and how every statement Obama has made in regards to Ayers has been a distortion at best and a blatant lie at most.
Considering the long list of associations that Obama has with less than [...]

Nice try, Joey. We ain’t buying it.
Barack Obama’s running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was “terrible” and would not have been done had he known about it.
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Asked about the negative tone of the campaign, and this ad in particular, during an [...]

I must admit that I still occasionally watch Hannity and Colmes. I used to be quite the devote, but of late I fine Hannity vapid, and Colmes…. well, we’ll get to that in a bit. First a bit more on Hannity.
I think Sean is a decent guy. His problem is that he [...]

I see that some of you cats and kittens use Firefox 3. I tried to do the same a while back. Please let me know when they finally get all the stupid bugs worked out of it.
Thanky mucho.

Weather here in the mid-south is promising to be absolutely typical for this time of year, which is to say- miserable. Rainy, windy, yucky. Looks like I may not be able to sit on the patio and listen to my Washington Nationals lose another game, so I think I’ll probably finally break down [...]

I can’t even believe this is a story. I am not in the mood to post excerpts or anything at the moment, so, in the words of Inigo Montoya, “no, that is too much, lemme sum up”.
Sarah Palin has a personal email account. That’s pretty much it. Same stupid liberal bullhockey we [...]

For all the lovers of individuality and freedom, here and everywhere, TTA wishes you a very happy Constitution Day. To read more, check below the fold.

This stuff really almost gets too easy sometimes.
Dan Balz, the strident liberal (just like David Broder, but more capable) trots out this treatise on McCain’s “message problem” today, and it’s just too juicy to pass up. It’s not even good analysis, although it is lefty, so it’ll get some Kos-net play.
John McCain has a [...]

I gotta believe that Hil is behind this just a bit. I know that there is that PUMA outfit out there, and I have personally heard from a few fence-sitters/disaffected Dems who are doing the same, but this thing, making news now….. I just have to believe that the Clinton machine is behind it [...]

This is just unmitigated stupidity. Stupid. Stupid stupid. Stupid with sprinkles.
Walk into a polling station in Belford Roxo, an impoverished city on the fringes of Rio de Janiero, on October 5 and you will be faced with an historic choice. You could vote for Alcides Rolim, the Workers’ Party mayoral candidate promising [...]

Ross Douthat over at The Atlantic has some relatively wise counsel for the McCain campaign. I can’t say that I completely agree with everything he posits, but I must admit that it is a sober and measured analysis.
This part at the end pretty much boils down the McCain problem as of late:
There’s no question [...]

Is there a better stupid, cranky old fart than CNN’s Jack Cafferty ? Check out this jaw-dropping gem.
Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about.
Really ? Nobody has been talking about race ? In the 20 months that this interminable election season has been [...]

Why won’t he come to his senses….
Seriously ? This is as friggin silly as Kerry on a surfboard or Dukakis in a tank.
Is it really necessary for us to go down this road, that says when you are in Colorado you wear a cowboy hat ? What’s next, a big foam cheesehead [...]

Those two great words, change and hope, have been thrown around a lot in the last few years. Hell, they have been thrown around a lot in the last few centuries, I suppose. But what do they mean ?
I have mucho hope, and think change is bueno. As vapid ideas. Once [...]

Joe Trippi- remember him, the genius behind Howard Dean and John “I DID have sex with that woman, but I ain’t da baby daddy” Edwards- has a piece up on RealClearPolitics, and he uses a term that I despise.
There is no such friggin thing as “post-partisan” politics. There just isn’t. Nor is there [...]

I am in the middle of reading Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. If you haven’t read it, you should. You should at least purchase it and place it on your coffee table so you’ll look smart. And it’ll piss off your liberal friends, until they read it. This is really the ultimate [...]

I haven’t tried this one yet, but reading through it I sense strong promise. I’ve done quite a few beer-can chickens, but this one has a few twists that I am eager to explore.
Yes, I am stealing it from memphissport, who stole it from someone else. If we do any more [...]

I can’t decide if Twitter is a cool thing that should be used often, or a complete and total waste of time and effort. Any thoughts out there ?