Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Funny line from Jon Stewart… I can’t quote it, but it went something like this:
Of course, the lawyer Monica Goodling hired to keep her out of jail went to a real law school.
Ouch.
Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.
In a recent Regent [...]

For those of you not following, that was John Kerry and Newt Gingrich… after “debating” global warming. Exploding heads here.
I first heard about this debate on RedState, too. The comments from before the debate, and those from after… well, let’s just say they reflect a different view of Newt, if nothing else.
Ok… So [...]

As is periodically done at RightWingNews.com, the results of an informal survey of right-of-center bloggers have been posted.
As is often the case, the respondents include my friend, RW, whom I have been needling for probably 3 years now. So, this caveat goes out to you, RW: if I say something particularly crass about [...]

The Feds censor their scientists
Please read the above link and next time somebody complains that climate scientists “silence” or “censor” the contrarian voices (which are a small fraction of scientists, but nearly 50% of popular news sources), just remember it. Ask yourself if and when climate scientists did anything comparable to it.

I notice a front page post on Red State from U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter, lamenting the lack of passion about last year’s bogey-man.
Let me just say that I don’t have a strong position on trade relations with communist and other oppressive governments. I strongly disagree with embargoes or long-term sanctions against entire nations. [...]

Mike Huckabee get’s one wrong… might be thought of as a biggie (via Atrios). Of course, the clueless, godless liberals defend him, and also get it wrong. The Golden Rule is none of the “commandments” - not even the “Second Greatest”. It’s a pretty good one, though, as is the “Second Greatest”.
This screw-up [...]

Interesting comment in the previous thread from Thomas at NewsRack Blog. It appears that Chattanooga based IT firm, SmarTech may run some of the e-mail servers that were used to skate presidential record-keeping requirements on some communications related to Attorney-Gate. So, if anybody local to here knows anything about this firm, and/or recent [...]

Maybe so, but not such a great strategy when there isn’t a referee anywhere in the world willing to count the dude out.

The Concern Trolls at RedState:
Instead of trying to play reasonable, you decided to pee in the man’s cornflakes. You pissed him off and he now has your precious policy by the short hairs.
What could we have been thinking? Instead of reasonably genuflecting to Lieberman as he went on Fox News and called Democrats traitorous [...]

I can’t add anything to what Alice said here. It seems impossible to find any redeeming character in Bill Frist. Yes, he finally came off his position that embryos must be burned in the incinerators to keep the scientists from learning anything useful from them… I guess we can say that in his [...]