Okay, there are two reasons I love this story in the Orlando Sentinel scrutinizing NASA’s budget: 1) It’s way past time that the federal government bring some accountability to the space program. 2) It’s written by one of my best friends, Mark K. Matthews.
Mark and his colleague Robert Block have been all over the NASA [...]
Well, I’ve decided there must be a reason I can’t bring myself to blog. I figure I’m either one of those Obamazombies in that hilarious Onion video or it’s because I’m still trying to get through this fascinating and very long series in Newsweek that takes us behind-the-scenes of the Obama and McCain campaigns (though, [...]
Read full post...There’s nothing I could write tonight that could be more poignant or powerful than the speech President-elect Barack Obama delivered in Chicago’s Grant Park:
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our [...]
Here’s the question of the day: How did the entire blogosphere and twitterverse know intuitively that Ashley Todd was some imbalanced attention-seeker almost immediately after the story broke but John McCain, Sarah Palin and their top staff did not?
Predictably, the liberal bloggers and tweeters were calling bullshit as soon as they heard Todd’s tale of [...]
Barack Obama was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other day, telling Ellen he might not be able to dance better than his wife, but he was pretty sure he could out dance John McCain. After watching this video, I’d call it a tie. Though I have to admit, I’m not sure Obama has an [...]
Read full post...The picture above of Elsheba Khan appeared in the New Yorker. It’s the picture that former Secretary of State Colin Powell invoked in this stirring endorsement of Barack Obama:
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, [...]
Now it gets exciting. Sources in John McCain’s camp spent the last several days telling reporters that the campaign was about to go hard negative against Barack Obama on the character issue. It was the best way, they said, to move the national discussion off of the economy.
And true to their word, VP candidate Sara [...]
