Liberal Talk Radio

A Times op-ed today questions the usefulness of all the commemorative coins out there. Something I learned: Those of you (ahem and ahem) who are busy railing against the penny may or may not realize that this year is a bad time to bang the drum: In 2009, the United States Mint will mint and [...]

So in the evening hours of Thursday, April 23, I was robo-called by Rassmussen to take one of their robo-polls. I admit, I was curious, so I stayed on the line. It took about eight and-a-half minutes, and I scribbled down the questions in the meat of the poll (i.e., not the general “did you [...]

Now that there’s a lot of revisionist history being peddled, I thought it would be interesting to go back in time a bit and see what our attitude was toward subprime mortgages back in the heat of the housing bubble. I took a look at some NYTimes articles from 2005. Here’s one that popped out [...]

I was outside in the parking lot watching this on the screens the Phillies set up for fans who didn’t have tickets to the rally inside the stadium: 1) As you can tell by the YouTube, this basically summed up the mood of the day. 2) This was one of the ten to fifteen best [...]

“I don’t think John McCain is too old to be president. John is incredibly healthy. After all, he’s had government health insurance his whole life.”

Would Barney Frank ever have been able to talk about regulating the banking sector had it not been for Bush’s Bear Stearns bailout? That’s why Bush may be the most progressive-liberal president since, uh, Jimmy Carter. (Sorry, Bill!) Unconvinced? What about John McCain running around Europe pandering about Kyoto and torture and “reestablishing diplomacy”? Karl [...]

Worry not about oppressing women with expectations that they wear beautiful, painful footwear, because there is a reason, a very good reason: Forget the sensible shoes – there’s pure sexual heeling in a sleek pair of stilettos. In a recent study of 66 women, those who held their foot at a 15-degree angle to the [...]

Bill, I really don’t need you to tell me that the leading Democratic candidates for president are hesitant to discuss the relative benefits of the troop surge in Iraq. I seem to have read somewhere that the surge is working. That’s good! It’s important to take care of stuff in Iraq! But you know what? [...]

Pakistani Airlines ad from 1979. D’oh!

Now what did we say about commenting in moderation? More proof that it can to bite you in the rear*: Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee personally apologized to rival Mitt Romney previously about a disparaging remark Huckabee made about Romney’s Mormon religion. But Huckabee’s Web site continues to host comments posted by supporters blasting the Mormon [...]