Posts from ‘November, 2008’

An obviously frustrated and probably angry Republican named John Ziegler has produced a nearly ten minute minute video in which he uncovers a shocking fact about this year’s presidential election: Many Obama voters were ill-informed about the issues. 

To back up his claim, Ziegler cites a Zogby poll which shows that almost 60% of Obama supporters believed [...]

Can you hear me now?

AUSTIN — Another day, another cell phone found on Texas’ death row.

Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row today found a cell phone in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons.
They first found two SIM cards, or memory cards, in Skinner’s [...]

Sarah Palin’s supporters have wasted no time in setting up an exclamation mark-filled website encouraging the Alaska governor to run for president in 2012:

Thank you for visiting the official Sarah Palin For President 2012 website!

This site was created after the 2008 election and has quickly become the most visited Sarah Palin website. We have grown [...]

Dateline Los Angeles: Glamorous Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan caused controversy today when she referred to Barack Obama as “our first colored president” in an interview with Access Hollywood (which is only available on something called “television”)!  Apparently, nobody’s told the dreamy actress that dark-skinned leaders have recently made it known that they should be called [...]

Barack Obama went to the White House to talk with President Bush today. The historic meeting:

MSNBC’s less interesting coverage:
 

In December 1992, as Bill Clinton was assembling his cabinet, he took a moment to respond to feminist complaints about a supposed lack of high-level female appointments:
In an unusually candid discussion yesterday, Clinton said he was particularly unhappy that two of his appointees – Laura D’Andrea Tyson as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Carol [...]

Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others.
But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist [...]

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news outfit? [...]

It’s a little late for electoral predictions, sure.  I was too superstitious to post this before the election. 
On October 30th, just like we do every four years, my brother and I bet on the outcome of the presidential election.  The competition is for most states correctly called, not closest to the actual electoral result. 
This year [...]

When a judge looks at an opposing lawyer and goes to town on him, it’s best to remain silent.  Any lawyer who has ever been in a courtroom has been on both sides of that kind of thing. It’s no fun when it happens to you, but golly it’s satisfying to watch it happen to [...]