On the campaign trail Hillary Clinton tries to distance herself from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) worked out by her husband’s administration more than a decade ago. But you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, and the Sierra Club’s executive director, Carl Pope, sums up where globalization has brought us.
When corporate [...]

O.K., I have to admit I really don’t get strippers and prostitutes and lap dances and all that stuff, but I’m female so there you go. I mean, how do you pay for it and keep up the illusion in your mind that there’s anything but contemptuous nose-holding disdain going on in the mind of [...]

Via Pam Spaulding at Pandagon, the first video below offers a snippet from “Fox and Friends,” which is hands-down the worst morning show this side of home shopping, as the airheads natter on about Obama’s comment that his grandmother was a “typical white person” because she said she felt trepidation when she encountered a [...]

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
— Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States

Photo posted at Jabberwonk, as taken on Sept. 11, 1998
Good times.
Different Sept. 11.

Don’t you hate it when someone you don’t like does something you’re forced to applaud? Let’s hear it for Sen. Joe Lieberman. The one-time Democrat who lost his way after he and Al Gore were robbed of the White House in 2000 finally showed up. He’s asking the Internal Revenue Service very good questions about [...]

The report from the daily Presidential Tracking Poll from Rasmussen Reports describes Hillary Clinton’s support among African-Americans as a glass that is half-empty:
The Democrats are too busy attacking each other to do what needs to be done — connecting McCain to George W. Bush, morning, noon and night.
African-American support for Clinton [...]

An aide to Sen. John McCain’s campaign was suspended and supposedly reprimanded for distributing a video clip that questioned Barack Obama’s patriotism. Politico has the story:
Soren Dayton, who works in McCain’s political department, sent out the YouTube link of “Is Obama Wright?” on twitter at 12:31 today with the tag, “Good video on Obama and [...]

In politics, nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli (1808-1881), British Conservative statesman and literary figure