Anglican will love this....

I loved Robert Gates invoking one of the greatest understatements of recent history when he told David Gregory that Obama was "somewhat more analytical" than President Bush. Yeah. But just somewhat, right? I missed this from Obama's fiscal responsibility summit where even Republicans acknowledged th...

Via Sully: "'We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that e...

According to Sarah Palin she isn't paranoid for thinking that the media was out to destroy her: "Palin said she believes the media made a decision that “we’re going to seek and we’re going to destroy this candidacy of Sarah Palin’s because of what it is that she represents.�"Honestly, this...

Someone asked me what I had been up to this week, and I blanked. I have been busy, but when I think back, have a difficult time listing what I have done, or tried to do. I guess that is how it goes. I realized I have also been rather bitchy with some of my conservative friends. Or rather, snippy and...

Because I am so tired of the tax cut mantra from the right, it is so nice to hear this from Barney Frank: "But beyond that, the notion that everything is solved by a tax cut, of course there are sensible tax policies you could have. But there are public needs we have in this society...that cannot be...

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Pardon my bit of self-pity yesterday about blog awards. Good Grief. As I noted in the comments, I never wrote this thing to make money or earn praise from people I don't even know. I wrote it for my own sanity, and then was gratified that it grew into a little community of people talking about ideas...

But I checked on Blogger and it appears to be a known issue. Sorry, and hope we can get it working again....

And hoping that you and yours are well....