Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

The most popular posts this year, as determined by the number of responses:

Oops! - 62 comments
Pederson Retroactively Endorses Dean for President, I Guess - 57 comments
CD 8 Polling Numbers Straight from the Wick Newspaperin’ Empire - 56 comments
Dueling Press Releases - 51 comments
Howard Dean Endorses…? - 47 comments
I Don’t Know Albert, We Don’t Know Anyone […]

A bit of an update from before: Lisa James’s website is now up and active. Since it is still new, the “news” section is a bit thin, with only two entries.
One is a rather interesting choice: a post from ThinkRight Arizona that endorses James’s candidacy. Why would it be odd to put up a lauditory […]

Yesterday’s Citizen had an interview with Jim Kolbe that was both a retrospective of his career and a list of his problems with the Republican party.
The article touches upon the federal investigation into a trip he took with some interns to the Grand Canyon. Kolbe points out that nothing was substantiated. I wasn’t sure what […]

Tipped off to this by Talking Points Memo, the blog that this humble spot on the internet hopes to be someday.
Check this out:

This might be an innocent observation by the MSNBC folks, you know, hey, look, a rich guy that gives a damn. My worry is that this is once again the Republican spin from […]

In case you need further proof that our system of justice works, even if it may take a time or two: Roy Warden was convicted yesterday of charges of assault, threats and intimidation stemming from an incident back in June when Warden pushed a teenaged camera operator.
So, here’s what I don’t get: the guy does […]

I disabled “Pop-up Politicians.” Many of you, particularly Firefox users, have complained about how slow the page is loading and these complaints seem to correspond to when I started using Pop-up Politicians. In retrospect, I don’t know how much using it brought to the page, since a link to the member’s home page would be […]

John Edwards was hoping to put off his presidential announcement until tommorrow, but apparently today his website became hot for a while and then was taken down.
No matter, really. I mean, who thought he wasn’t going to run?
He has made two excellent speeches in Tucson during the 2006 campaign. The speeches were not standard issue, […]

Michael Chessman, leader of something called the Euro-British Coalition, announced last week in a short note that he has ended his e-mail campaign to Arizona legislators.
What, you’ve never heard of Chessman or the Euro-British Coalition?
Chessman’s agenda was to promote British culture in Canada. He would achieve this by installing the English public school system in […]

I know that carping liberals like me are supposed to hate the pardon, but I think his only mistake in that was not demanding that Richard Nixon make an appology in return.
Other than that, a decent, but not great president. He even admitted this himself (”I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”). He was an admirable […]

And, in the spirit of eccumenism, a belated Salaam Aleekum to Virgil Goode and Dennis Prager for the Eid holiday, Happy Hanukkah to Judith Reagan and Mel Gibson and Happy Kwanzaa to George Allen.
Oh, and Season’s Greetings to Bill O’Reilly.

I just got an e-mail from Evan Bayh’s All America PAC. It started “Dear Geoff…”
Maybe he decided to put those presidential ambitions on hold until he gets his lists cleaned up.

One of the strangest stories coming out of the recent Holocaust denial conference in Tehran was the presence of representatives of Neturei Karta, a small Hasidic sect. So, I guess the fact that they were Jews at the conference makes any of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-semetic tirades okay, right?
Of course not.
A recent East Valley Tribune featured […]

Greg Patterson flatters me too much over at Espresso Pundit by saying that newly elected congressman Gabrielle Giffords should hire me at her office. Well, thank you for the sentiment, Greg, but there are plenty of very well qualified people in line in front of me.
In fact, there has been a development on that point. […]

I was alerted to this one by Talking Points Memo; it is so beautiful that it needs repeating.

This picture is from Rudy Giuliani’s website. Flags are flying both to the right, and to the left…hmm. It just depends which way the wind blows. Maybe John McCain can borrow the picture too.
Also interesting, his campaign bio […]

Lisa James, the designated “establishment” candidate for State Republican Party Chair, has reserved a domain name for a campaign website. The address is lajamesgop.com. There is nothing there right now, but I’m pretty sure there will be soon.
One of the knocks against her over at Sonoran Alliance is the allegation of some shenanigans about how […]

The latest out of Central Avenue is that David Waid has informed folks that he plans to run for re-election for chair of the Arizona Democratic Party.

Apparently, the Arizona Capitol Times has named Espresso Pundit as the best political website.
Oh yeah? Well, uh, I never liked you guys much anyway. I’ll just go hide over here.

I wanted to write a bit about my take on the Democratic presidential field. I started writing and realized that I was taking up way too much space. I was trying to avoid missing out on someone and having one of you post angrilly about my missing, I dunno, Dennis Kucinich or Christopher Dodd.
So, I […]

I haven’t written about SEIU’s organizing efforts among Pima County workers in a while.
Back in late October, Attorney General Terry Goddard issued an opinion that county workers were entitled to a vote on “meet and confer” status. Goddard’s opinion all but overruled a self-interested opinion issued by Barbara LaWall’s office (many of her own dissatisfied […]

Okay, I’ll relent a bit. I’ll cut Time a break for their lame “You are the Person of the Year” thing. Why? For linguistic reasons.
In English, we make no distinction of singular or plural “yous,” except in regionalisms (y’all, youse). So, I don’t know exactly which “you” they are refering to. This would be so […]