Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Come on, it was just a year...

To my legion of regular readers, I'm sorry for the long hiatus. Try running a restaurant and bar when you're halfway to geezerhood and you'll start to understand. The current election cycle is heating up and I can't resist a chance for some action. In spite of all the predictions of a Democratic surge, I'm going to hang onto my "show me" mode. Republicans kicked our ass in 2002 and 2004 and until the votes are counted, I'm not going against the trend. Still, we've got some mighty good candidates. We're unified more than at any time in the recent past. Finally we have all the evidence we need that the Republicans are incompetent at running out country, unable to understand balance of powers, and unwilling to honor the Constitution.

With no further ado, here's my campaign song for this year. Memorize it. Put the bumper stickers on your car. Tell all your friends that you've "had enough".
posted by Dave on 11:36 PM | 0 comments link

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