Obama backer wants him to quit the race

6 comments April 25th, 2008

THIS GUY figures that if Barack Obama drops out now, Hillary Clinton will take a fractured Democratic Party down to defeat in November — and Obama will win the presidency in 2012.

It’s a crazy notion, for sure, but it’s fascinating to ponder.

Milestone passed without my noticing

12 comments April 25th, 2008

 

The 500th post on this blog came along a couple of days ago without my immediately noticing the milestone.

That’s a pretty good record, if I say so myself, for a part-time enterprise that was born barely 16 weeks ago.

The comments here (including my own addled rejoinders) now number more than 1,320, and the page-views have been measured in the tens of thousands.

I’m sincerely grateful to those of you who visit here regularly — and especially to those who bravely offer comments. I say “bravely” because you risk incurring my wrath if you catch me in a foul mood — which is not uncommon, owing to the fact that relatively few commenters agree with me on anything.

Homeland Security Dept. discourages GOP rhetoric on “Islamo-fascism,” but to no avail

3 comments April 25th, 2008

 

The bureaucrats ARGUE  that anti-Islamic references “may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.”

A spokesman for John McCain’s campaign scoffs at the admonition.

Wesley Snipes case puts the lie to the wacky theory that there is no law requiring you to pay income taxes

3 comments April 25th, 2008

 

Actor Wesley Snipes, who was SENTENCED the other day to three years in prison for tax evasion, had subscribed to the nutty theory that there is no law requiring you to pay income taxes.

This theory is often heard on talk radio, and I once interviewed a GUY whose passionate belief in it landed him in the pokey on more than one occasion.

The truth of the matter regarding the law and income taxes can be found HERE.

Gallup Poll: Americans more likely to think the war in Iraq was a mistake than their forbears felt about Vietnam during that conflict

5 comments April 25th, 2008

 

The latest USA Today-Gallup Poll SHOWS that 63 percent of Americans think it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq, the highest such reading during any American military conflict.

Moreover, Gallup analysts say “majority opposition to the Iraq war is basically cemented.”