Monthly Archives: December 2007

Mike Huckabee Thinks John Bolton Is A Wise Source On Foreign Policy

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Bolton’s rabid fury against the United Nations made him an embarrassment to the United States for as long as he was in office, and he was forced to leave the ambassadorship in shame after he proved to be unable to deal effectively with the ambassadors of other nations. John Bolton was publicly exposed as unfit to make pronouncements on foreign policy. Mike Huckabee’s choice as a source of advice on foreign policy only serves to expose him as unfit to lead on foreign policy himself.

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Narrative of Surge Success in Iraq Full of Holes

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As General David Petraeus has recently admitted, violence in Iraq is once again on the increase, not decreasing. Secondly, even those claiming success of the surge strategy in Iraq only claim to have reduced violence in Iraq to the levels of 2005…

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Which Democrat, Republican Would You Least Like to Be President?

A few days ago, I asked folks who they expected to see nominated, and who they would most like to see nominated, from the fields of Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Let’s turn those questions around. Which of the Democrats …

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Arctic Ice Melt is Top Concern For Canada, And the Wise in USA

Every year for 12 years, the ministry has published a list of the top ten weather phenomena of the previous 12 months. This year, the historically unprecedented melting of the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is at the top of their list. They called it shocking

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Polk County Creationists Witness the Intercession of His Noodly Appendage

“They’ve made us the laughingstock of the world!” So said Polk County School Board member Margaret Lofton after the descent of the Flying Spaghetti Monster hordes. But she was misplacing responsibility for her embarrassment. Lofton was one of five members …

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An Appeal from the Boogieman to Vote Progressive

The Boogie Man asked us to to send on a personal appeal for us all to vote progressive and shove the Bushes of the world out of office in 2008: Hi. Boogieman here. I wanted to bring something to your …

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Federal Inaction On Climate Crisis Forces Cities To Pick Up The Slack

It’s great that local governments are stepping forward to do their part, but it’s ridiculous for efforts to counter the global problem of climate change to be haphazardly advanced in a piecemeal fashion by local governments. The United States needs a President who will lead with strong action to control climate change, and cooperate with other countries in international efforts to do the same.

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And Leonid Brezhnev Sipped a Slurpee Here Too

The whole local news angle on world news can get to be a bit much sometimes. You’ve seen it before: “no Lillipudlians were injured today in the massive rending of the Andromeda Galaxy by a supermassive black hole…” I see …

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Bush Hangs Saddam Hussein, Then Protects Him From Lawsuits

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George W. Bush is upset that the defense authorization bill passed by Congress would make Iraqi government funds available to be frozen when lawsuits by those seeking compensation for atrocities inflicted upon them by Saddam Hussein. So, Bush says he will veto the legislation. Bush wants to deny legal justice for those harmed by Saddam Hussein, making his justification for invading Iraq tragically laughable.

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Mike Huckabee’s Cowboy Cufflinks and Cashmere and Fox Cape

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The cuff links given to Mike Huckabee came along with a pendant also estimated as worth one thousand dollars, a cashmere and fox cape worth $795, and a gold necklace and earings worth $495 for Janet Huckabee, Mike Huckabee’s wife. Such clothing is customary for cowboy’s wives, apparently. To round out the gift set from Jerry and Shirley Davis came a shotgun worth 800 dollars. A shotgun goes with a cashmere and fox cape, you see. If you’ve never worked with cattle, you wouldn’t understand that.

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Mike Huckabee Is All Hat And No Cattle

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Someone actually working with cattle would wear clothing much more humble than a four hundred dollar hat and boots worth more than three and a half thousand dollars. Huckabee’s luxury cowboy hats and designer cowboy boots are an obscene distortion of working clothes into elitist status symbols. That distortion is all the more twisted given that the pricey hats and boots were given to Mike Huckabee to flatter his egotistical desire to display his political power and to buy influence over his position as a public official in a government.

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I Just Don’t Believe John Edwards

You know, if I lined up my issue positions with the issue positions professed by the various presidential candidates, I would probably find myself pretty closely aligned with John Edwards. His currently professed positions on war and peace, economic populism …

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The Riddle Of the Missing Bumper Sticker

Four years ago, by this point in the presidential election season, cars were thick with bumper stickers promoting different presidential candidates. Why not now?

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Hopes and Expectations for the Democratic and Republican Nominations

Just one week from today, the presidential nominating process will begin with the Iowa caucuses. As we stand at the brink, who do you hope will win the Democratic nomination for president? Putting your hopes aside, who do you expect …

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Can You Bore Me To Friggin Death? Yes You Can!

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After many requests and a nearly equal number of wholly intentional delays, I finally took my children to the Bob The Builder traveling exhibit at the COSI Columbus museum. What a waste of time that was. The “exhibit” consisted of …

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What Did Huckabee Cover Up By Smashing Government Computers?

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Mike Huckabee destroyed a lot of the evidence of what happened behind the scenes in the Huckabee term as Governor. Just before Huckabee left the Governor’s mansion, he arranged the destruction of the Arkansas government computers that he and his administration had used. Huckabee used money from the state emergency fund to have the hard drives from 90 computers crushed so that the information on them could never be retrieved.

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Huckabee Taking Payments on the Side From Churches During Campaign

Presidential and congressional candidates are permitted to pay themselves a salary from their campaign funds so that they can pay living expenses during a campaign, and so that they need not take ethically questionable side payments from third parties in …

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Why We Need a Dissent-Loving President: Think of What the Sheep Will Do

You know, it’s important for for our nation to embrace anti-authoritarian priorities, starting right up at the top of the chain of authority in the Oval Office. This is because a lot of people will follow the president’s lead, and …

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