According to the local paper in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the feds had infiltrated peace groups to stage their raids. Aided by informants planted in protest groups, authorities raided at least six buildings across St. Paul and Minneapolis to stop an “anarchist” plan to disrupt this week’s Republican National Convention. From Friday night through Saturday afternoon, officers …
Greenwald: Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the …
Roy Blount, Jr. on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me today, predicting how McCain will top Obama’s DNC speech at his own convention: “To the next five people who call I will give one of my houses, and my wife Cindy will stock the fridge with beer.”
Mark Schmitt: Quayle: Two terms in the U.S. House, eight years in the U.S. Senate, representing a state of 6.5 million people. Palin: City council member and mayor of a town of 8,500 people, 20 months as governor of a state of 650,000 people. No, Governor Palin, you’re no Dan Quayle. Somewhere Mr. Quayle is …
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Every blog originating in Alaska is getting a huge number of hits today.
You don’t suppose that McCain thought Sarah Palin was actually Michael Palin and he was hoping to attract the Monty Python fans? Seriously, what does it say about the Republican party that he couldn’t persuade one of their more experienced and well-known politicians to join him? If it had to be a woman, there are …
My review? Wow. In a football stadium, he took the ball and ran the length of the field for a touchdown. A few of my favorite lines: “It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.” And, “For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy – …
Today the 2008 college football season begins, so it’s time for my annual shout-out to FanBlogs, which is an indispensable resource for gridiron enthusiasts. For the etymologists: gridiron has multiple definitions, and according to the Online Etymology Dictionary its origin is “c.1330, griderne, alteration (by association with iron) of gridire (c.1290), a variant of gridil …
Don’t like the facts? Change the counting method! In an article from the Dallas Morning News which discusses Texas’s high number of citizens who have no health insurance, a McCain adviser says: . . .the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. …
If you didn’t see and hear this, take 15 minutes to do so. Holy smokes. Had he given speeches like this (okay, and fought back against the Swift Boat Liars sooner) he might have won the 2004 election. Fire and brimstone, this was. An excerpt: To those who still believe in the myth of a …