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It’s too soon to know all the details of what really happened in Tucson, Arizona this morning when Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people were shot. Five were killed, the others left injured, including Giffords, who had sugery and is listed in critical but stable condition. The scene–a street corner meeting with constituents that Giffords holds regularly on Saturdays called “Congress [...]
What will it take for the Democratic establishment to understand that Sarah Palin is their biggest threat to maintaining the presidency in 2012? For two years now all I have heard from friends, the center-left blogosphere and the White House insiders is that Sarah Palin is stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And when I have said [...]
A few weeks ago my Democratic committeeman called and invited me to attend a meeting to help elect Joe Sestak and Dan Onorato. I declined, but wished him luck with the candidates he had to work with. “These are pretty awful choices,” I told him. “An anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-Philadelphia candidate for governor and a [...]
People can’t stop talking about Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate who trounced 10-term veteran Republican congressman and two-term governor Mike Castle in Delaware last week. Democrats are crowing about O’Donnell’s win, seeing Delaware as a shoe-in for November because O’Donnell is “extreme.” Meanwhile, Castle insisted he would not endorse her for the November election. The [...]
I have been busy starting an independent publishing house for kid’s books and trying not to go crazy over what’s happening in the Gulf and what’s not happening in Washington. Then this morning I get an email in which a friend asks: Did you see the cover of Newsweek this week? “St. Sarah” (Palin). Scary as [...]
