The Smug Baldy Speaks

So the Heartland Institute’s Conference on Climate Change has come and gone, and they’re touting it as a “Smashing Success”, and saying:
The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say–over and over again, in every newspaper in the country practically every day and in countless news reports and documentary films. They have dominated […]

Poise. Style. Polish. Class. Selflessness. Sacrifice. Grace. Tactfulness. Decency. Humility.
Hillary Clinton?
Got you, didn’t I. These aren’t the adjectives that immediately come to mind when I think of Hillary Clinton, and chances are they aren’t the first that pop into your head either. These are, however, some of the words that we’d all […]

According to Diane Francis of the Canadian National Post, there are good reasons for the Barak Obama phenomenon:

Over at ThinkProgress, there’s a small piece about President Bush’s remarks about something he’s learned from his visit to the Rawandan Genocide Museum:.
BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries […]

Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan posted some observations about Hillary Clinton in which he claims that too many feminists are likely to vote for Hillary simply because of her gender, while overlooking her decidedly non-feminist record:
And her career there shows what a trail blazer she could have been for feminism. A skilled, cautious, pragmatic and constituent-focused legislator, […]

Today is Super Tuesday, when 24 states go to the polls and hopefully, further winnow the field of presidential candidates. For me, I’m enjoying Mardi Gras, having already cast my vote in the Mobile County special Don’t Drink and Vote preview election held last week.
So let’s take a quick look at the remaining front […]

The Bush administration recently bent over and gave us all a peek at where they plan to dig up part of the $150 billion for the as yet unpaid-for emergency economic stimulus package: their ass. Actually, it’s more like they’re using the FCC to pull it out of ABC’s ass. With a charge […]

The question is simple enough:
As you watched the scores of U.S. Presidential debates, did you ever wonder why there has been no debate devoted to policy surrounding what may be the most important social issue of our time: Science and Technology?
Well it turns out that plenty of folks wondered about this, and were motivated to […]

Last week on the season premier of Real Time with Bill Maher, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow raised the issue of a national Voter ID in response to a conversation about how it’s possible to steal votes using Diebold’s automated voting machines. By simply mentioning voter fraud , Tony successfully switched the […]

I recently posted some thoughts about the US recent decision to sell $20 Billion of advanced weaponry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I just saw this quote by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the subject. Enjoy:
“A few weeks ago the White House announced plans to sell $20 billion in weapons to […]