I’ve tried to put MSNBC’s election night widget on the sidebar to your right. It doesn’t really fit, so I’m putting it here. Check this post in your obsessive quest for the latest election results on November...

John McCain and Sarah Palin have been talking a lot of smack about Barack Obama at their race riots rallies. They scream about Bill Ayers, Acorn, and their local supporters have been introducing them by calling Obama out by his middle name (it’s “Hussein!!1!!!1!!”). But in this week’s debate, with Obama in the room, John McCain...

Ready to pay more for less healthcare? [youtube MI0IXwiBbIY] Of course, the ad assumes that those who are being taxed still have jobs: The government is out with more bad economic news this morning: The job market began to deteriorate even before the financial crisis reached a more serious stage two weeks ago. Employers cut 159,000 jobs in September, more than...

In his 1961 short story Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut wrote about a futuristic United States in which everyone is not only equal, but forcably equalized:  In the story, societal equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the lowest common endowment. This process is central to...

CBS and CNN are both already out with post-VP debate polls.  Each shows that Biden won: CNN/OPINION Who Did the Best Job In the Debate? Biden 51% Palin 36% QUESTION Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the best job in the debate – Joe Biden or Sarah Palin? CBS Poll: More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden As...

Here’s Sarah Palin describing Supreme Court cases she disagrees with: [youtube Cn9WduykYpA] She’s not a lawyer, so maybe the question was unfair.  So to be helpful, she might consider Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the Supreme Court held that blacks were beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in...