Category Archives: Politics

Trent Lott Fallout: The Gay Escort Who Knew Too Much

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Luke Ford

From Big Head DC: Once upon a time, there was a twentysomething boy-next-door type with reddish blond hair and a brilliantly white smile. Not one to shy away from attention, he wrote a blog called “Fifteen Minutes,” and also became … Continue reading →

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Escort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Luke Ford

From the Huffington Post: A San Antonio-based gay male escort categorically denied Monday that outgoing GOP Sen. Trent Lott had ever procured his services, putting to bed one of the more stunning rumors to emerge following Lott’s announcement earlier in … Continue reading →

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America, Here Are Your Democratic Presidential Candidates

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager writes on Townhall: If you want to know what the Democratic presidential candidates and the Democratic Party believe, the debates, often derided as intellectually inconsequential, reveal a great deal. The problem is that news media almost never report … Continue reading →

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Tancredo Confronts Heckler on Sharia (Islamic Law)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Luke Ford

Brenda Walker writes on VDare: Recently Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reminded America in Churchillian fashion of the still active threat from Islamists to destroy Western civilization. For Tancredo’s trouble, his ad was called “fear mongering” and worse. Did these critics … Continue reading →

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‘Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics,’ by Bill Boyarsky

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Luke Ford

Peter Schrag writes in the LA Times: Not only was Unruh a central player in the forging of California’s great postwar highway, university and water systems and the creation of its progressive governmental institutions, he also was a man with … Continue reading →

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