Heartless Candidate Attacks Opponent’s Heart Transplant

Hotline On Call says of the below ad, "This has to be just about the nastiest piece of direct mail we've ever seen." A candidate for State Assembly in the central valley region of CA, Bill Conrad (R) is apparently running on the platform that his opponent won't survive his term because he had a heart transplant. Attack line: 'Tom Berryhill doesn't ...

For Lily

In the comments to this post about the idiocy in the Seattle Public Schools commenter Lily wrote the following, Conservatives make themselves look silly by perseverating on this sort of thing. Sure, it’s stupid. It is also unimportant. Some committee cobbled this together, it will be issued, those who read it will snort with derision, and it will disappear with no ...

OTB on Tammy Bruce Show

I'm scheduled to appear on the Tammy Bruce Show at 10:30 PST/1:30 EST today. There's a live audio stream at that link. We're supposed to talk about my Blue Nation post from Tuesday. Update: I was on from around 1:30 to 1:42 Eastern. We mostly talked about the disconnect between ordinary voters and the elites/Beltway crowd. We talked ...

Political Will and Deportation

In the comments to this post by James, Dodd Harris has it right. Even leaving the tin-eared references to the Nazis aside, Mr. Day quite misses the point. I doubt anyone has ever seriously argued that deporting a large percentage of illegals is actually impracticible. It’s that we do not have the political will to do what is necessary to accomplish ...

Blue Nation

Chris Bowers, long irritated by the Red-Blue maps that came out after the 2000 and 2004 elections that "over-emphasized large, thinly populated expanses of land" is pleased to turn the tables with these county-by-county and state-by-state maps based on President Bush's popularity levels. "It is a blue nation. I'd love to see these map on television and in newspapers for a ...

Michael Jordan’s Big Brother

Michael Jordan's older brother James recently retired as the top sergeant major in the Army's Signal Corps. The Fayetteville (NC) Observer has an interesting profile. James R. Jordan asked himself a question when his younger brother Michael became a NBA star in the mid-1980s. The elder Jordan, who had already spent about a decade in the Army, said, “OK, ...

Gas Prices Cartoon

I made the point less visually a few weeks back. via Andrew Samwick

O.J. Simpson Auctions White Bronco as TV Prank

O.J. Simpson pretended to sell off his infamous white Bronco an a pay-per-view special airing this month. In a scene from his new candid-camera program "Juiced," O.J. Simpson pulls a prank involving the infamous white Bronco, drawing criticism from the family of a man he was accused of killing. As part of the pay-per-view show, Simpson pretends to sell the ...

Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen

Rob Kall describes a survey his Op-Ed News conducted along with Zogby Polling* that found that Americans who watched any network other than Fox News overwhelmingly thought the 2004 presidential election was stolen. Given that a majority of voters voted for George W. Bush in 2004--a fact that nobody disputes--the results initially struck me as initially implausible. This is even ...

More Republican Pablum

This time from David Limbaugh. Limbaugh writes the following, It's past time for President Bush to make a strong push to extend his income tax rate reductions before they expire in a few short years. The tax cuts have been instrumental in stimulating economic growth, and their extension is absolutely essential to meet the onerous challenges we'll be facing, including ...