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Remember how John McCain giggled and chuckled when a supporter asked him, “How do we beat the bitch?” (referring to Hillary Clinton)?

(If you have problems viewing the embedded video, head over to YouTube to watch it.)
Well, his running mate, Sarah Palin, also thinks it’s pretty funny when somebody calls her political opponent a “bitch” and [...]

Remember how, four years ago, John Kerry was derided as a “gigolo” because his second wife had so much money?
But if there is one characteristic of Kerry’s life that should disqualify him absolutely as a candidate for president, it is the fact that he has sought out millionaire wives to take care of him. Not [...]

First it was Jim Adkisson, the wingnut who loved Savage and Hannity and shot up a Unitarian church because he wanted to kill some “liberals and gays.” He shot up the church “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that [...]

An article in today’s Washington Post says that the Commonwealth of Virginia, traditionally a bastion of conservatism, has become a “swing state.”
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and President Bush carried the state twice, by nine and eight points. But the campaigns of Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, [...]

K-Lo is just stuck on stupid, readers:
If Obama could go to Germany and give a speech in English and be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn another language?
My guess is that K-Lo would rather not have learned any language at all, but her parents wouldn’t stop talking [...]

Mark Noonan, phonin’ it in on a lazy Wednesday afternoon:
They go on to say that 90% of the world’s glaciers are shrinking - which sounds like a made-up stat simply because most glaciers are in pretty inaccessible areas and thus can’t be measured
[Note: actually, one scientist is quoted as saying that "as many as [...]

Mitt Romney is disingenuous, readers. Here’s what he said in response to Barack Obama’s statement that American kids would benefit from learning languages:
Just last week the onetime Republican presidential hopeful said Obama “looks toward Europe for a lot of his inspiration” after the Illinois senator suggested Americans would benefit from knowing more languages.
“I think [...]

You think you’ve heard it all, readers. Then President Bush manages to surprise you again:
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting [at the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan] with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
He then punched the air [...]

My new hero is L.F. Eason III of Raleigh, NC, a man of principle who opted to retire from his job at the NC State Department of Agriculture rather than have the flags at his research facility lowered to half-mast in honor of the passing of the loathsome ex-Sen. Jesse Helms.
“Regardless of any executive proclamation, [...]

Mark Noonan (of Blogs For Victory) is tickled pink about a Washington Post article that says the US government has found that “hundreds” (out of how many? The article doesn’t say) of “insurgents, detainees and ordinary people” who’ve been “detained and fingerprinted by the US government in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa” [...]