Category Archives: Politics

The First Candidate For VP I’d Like To Date

I’m excited about John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin: No Democrat could be excited by Obama’s selection of windbag Joe Biden. Yet Republicans and many independents and some Democrats are excited by this selection of Palin. She is three years … Continue reading

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Cigarettes Are Good For You

A carton of cigarettes that doubles as a Christmas card. From back when America was free. –Mary Q. Contrarian

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Obama’s Anti-Exceptionalism: “Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now.”

Hugh Hewitt writes: Powerline’s JohnHinderaker notes Obama’s pratfall on the Russian rape of Georgia –comparing it to our invasion of Iraq– is just the latest in a string of gaffes, and John didn’t even know when he wrote it that … Continue reading

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Joe Biden – Foreign Policy Expert?

I keep hearing the news media refer to Joe Biden as a foreign policy expert. That’s hilarious. The guy is an airhead. He can’t stop talking and saying stupid stuff. I remember Brit Hume wrote an article about him for … Continue reading

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Sex Change Regret

 The NJG:  luke, check this out, people who regret having sex change therapy The NJG:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyRQpIZFymc&feature=related  The NJG:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCZpQUDiQ4&feature=related  The NJG:  really interesting stuff The NJG:  I’m totally against sex changes, because it IS mutiliation, and, also, it is most … Continue reading

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The Sickening John Edwards Story

From the UK: Ken Layne, editor of the Washington DC gossip site Wonkette.com, argues on AOL’s Political Machine that what he calls "the respectable press" is avoiding the Edwards story not just because the "unseemly" National Enquirer is the main … Continue reading

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The More Religious The Jew, The More Pro-McCain

Shmuel Rosner blogs: For those who like to entertain themselves with questions of religion and politics, this new Gallup analysis is a blast. Although the bottom line is quite obvious – the more religious the voter the more likely he … Continue reading

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Joe Klein Apparently Unscathed By His Divided Loyalties Charge

Mickey Kaus writes: Klein Lives: Have the rules changed? Last Tuesday, Time‘s Joe Klein wrote: The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives–people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary–plumped for this war, and now for an even … Continue reading

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Antonio Villaraigosa Vs Jerry Brown Vs Gavin Newsome For Democratic Nomination For CA Governor

Jerry Brown was at a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Los Angeles ten days ago. Brown said Antonio and Gavin would make for formidable challengers (as well as John Garamendi, the Lt. Governor). Brown looks really old these days. He … Continue reading

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Becoming More Liberal And More Observant

Michael Lewyn writes: In one of your Klinghoffer interviews, one of you (I can’t remember which) suggests that becoming more frum always leads to more political conservatism (or at least doesn’t make one more politically liberal).   This hasn’t been … Continue reading

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