Huckabee now Huckabye
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is now very unlikely to run for the White House in 2012:
Maurice Clemmons, 37, now of Tacoma, Washington, is a suspect in the murder of 4 Lakewood (Washington) police officers at a coffee shop this morning.
“Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison [...]
Third Way
A vote for fill-in-the-blank conservative third-party candidate
— be it Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, or Pat Buchanan — is a vote
for the Democrats. This argument has kept many a disgruntled
conservative on the Republican reservation, no matter how hard
they had to hold their nose in November.
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The Kennedys’ Senator
Michael Dukakis has lost again. The only man in American politics
who could make the avuncular George H.W. Bush seem like a
decisive political leader and larger-than-life Texan had his eyes
on the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat. But Mr. Dukakis
won’t be coming to Washington.
Yesterday [...]
State Health Care Plan: Traveling Eternity Road - on a One-Way Ticket
This is so stunning, I’m still not sure what to make of it.
Several states already have the equivalent of ObamaCare’s “government option;” one of those is Oregon.
Oregon is a blue state… in the last two decades, a very blue state:
The last time it went for the Republican in a presidential race was a quarter century [...]
What’s In a Name? Well, Everything!
Shakespeare notwithstanding, a rose by any other name would not, in fact, smell as sweet; “seeing is believing” is a much less accurate saying than “believing is seeing” — especially in politics, the art of the image. “What a fool believes, he sees.”
The winner of the race to define one’s opponent typically wins the [...]
Cahill’s Charge
BOSTON — When it comes to good government, hope and change can
only get you so far. That’s the lesson being learned in
Massachusetts of all places, as Barack Obama’s mini-me, Gov.
Deval Patrick, promised voters something new and instead
delivered the sequel to Michael Dukakis.
It is [...]
