If there was ever any doubt to whom Colin Powell is loyal, consider his latest grumble.
Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.
No shit, Sherlock.
And Sara [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she will step down as Alaska’s chief executive by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010.
“People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing’s more important to me than [...]
The Talibani Republican group known as the “Family Action PAC” has announced its endorsement of Costa Mesa Councilman Allan Mansoor for the 68th Assembly District.
Attention DPOC. As bad as Assemblyman Van Tran is I assure you Mansoor will be worse. Tran is corrupt but he is [...]
Stepping down. Will she be leading the TEA party? Would be a natural fit. If so, then she's stepping up. Let's hope so. God bless her strength and courage.
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We political junkies all expected that a prominent Republican governor with presidential ambitions might resign over the long weekend. We are very smart and semi-prescient. We just expected that the governor would be love-besotted Mark Sanford. Sarah Palin, though as controversial as ever, looked secure in her [...]
Loyal Friends, on June 16th the city council again demonstrated why the process behind selecting the boundaries of the proposed expansion area are almost completely arbitrary. The council voted 3-1 to remove 7 selected properties from the area. Read more.
[...]“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shocked the political word Friday by announcing that she will step down at the end of the month and transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell,” according to Fox News.
Fox News also reported that Palin has faced 15 different ethics inquiries. In her latest snafu two [...]
I begin reading the long story by Mark Leibovich in this coming Sunday's N.Y. Times magazine with dread. I have literally not read a single story by an East Coast-based newspaper or magazine in five years that goes beyond the...
[...]As delivered by Leticia Garcia Romo at the Immigration Reform Forum with Congressman Sam Farr, July 2, 3009: My name is Leticia Garcia Romo. I am third generation American. I was born in Salinas, California. I am here as a very proud daughter and friend.
My father works in the fields [...]
One model of the social critic blogger is that s/he is putting a finger in the dike, or watching the weather vane and barometer and warning about the coming storm, or like a prophet castigates the backsliders for their sins, or is a political scientist, dipping litmus strips into the political [...]
If your goal is to make California governable again by restoring fiscal sanity and political accountability, there's no way to avoid Prop 13. The 1978 Jarvis-Gann measure is not just a property tax limitation. It's the hack that rewrote California's' [...]
As delivered by Hector Rojas at the Immigration Reform Forum with Congressman Sam Farr, July 2, 2009: My name is Hector Rojas. I came to the U.S. at the age of 5.
I can’t imagine living anywhere but the United States. It’s all I know.
My parents left my brother and myself [...]
The Associated Press just moved a breaking news bulletin: WASILLA, Alaska -- Spokesman: Sarah Palin is resigning as Alaska governor on July 26.
I will update when we hear anything else.
UPDATE: Here's a link to our story.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from [...]News is breaking now on CNN.com in a banner headline. No news story available yet.
UPDATE 12:27 p.m.: Word now is that she will resign within weeks. What’s going on here?
UPDATE x2 12:29 p.m.: Word now is she will resign at the end of the month.
UPDATE x3: The [...]
Allahpundit notes a mighty odd coincidence between this humorous image from a Daily Show segment:
And this previously published image from Slublog, published at Hot Air’s Green Room:
By the way, the clip containing this shameless theft is pretty funny. Jon Stewart [...]
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The race to replace termed out Supervisor Chris Norby just got interesting. Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway, who is a Democrat, has announced that she is running, according [...]
Rafting on the Mokelumne River
Last weekend several of Amador Democrats took a raft trip down the Mokelumne River. Joining us was Dr. Ami Bera, 3rd Congressional District candidate. What a great time, and what a great cause. The trip was a benefit [...]
Controller Chiang said the warrants can be transferred between individuals, setting up the possibility that a secondary market for the IOUs may develop. Already ads are appearing on Web sites such as Craigslist offering cash for the IOUs [...]
I’m not sure if I posted this before or not, but I watched it again last night and laughed and laughed. Thanks to Jeffrey Lewis.
[...]It must be true… a McClatchy newspaper sez so today. Right there, above the fold in today’s Charlotte Observer:
Dismal Numbers
14.7 million: People unemployed in June, the most ever in records dating to 1948. (GP Ed. Note - obviously there were more during the Great Depression)
12.1 million: People unemployed in [...]
Martin Jones opens his newly-sighted eye fitted with a tooth
Wow!
The administration that pledged “openness” has been characterized by the usual Leftist double standard of behavior. Obama has had a recent string of campaign promise annulments, which began with his first stimulus package. He failed to put the bill on-line, refused to take out so-called “earmarks”, [...]
I just posted the American Flag at my house, since this is the beginning of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. I took this photo with my cell phone. The Flag looks kind of cool with the early-morning sun slicing through the shadows, and a slight [...]
Villaraigosa starts vacation in South Africa a day after inauguration. This is the first thing he has done well for the city in a long time.
New rail corridor between L.A. and Las Vegas could doom maglev project. High speed rail beats maglev in lobbying war.
"Gone to Africa with the book ??" Are Tony and Lu off to Africa ?? At least we know that Mayor Villaraigosa has vacated his third floor confines for some "telepromptive speaking" and "R & R", but the mayor's chief spin-master is mum on [...] [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
The Obamas are off to Camp David for an abbreviated 4th of July prior to dad’s Moscow Summit next week. Here are some touristy things the Obama daughters can do in [...]
It occurs to me that I have been something of an ass. This occurrence doesn't occur very often, but that it happens at all shows what a super cool dude I am. I mean, like... you know?
I stumbled onto some really extraordinary YouTubery this morning that made me LOL. And' [...]
Walker on Thursday rejected a request from the Boies/Olson team that he suspend enforcement of the gay marriage ban while the challenge to it proceeds.
He [...]
Is Bringing Your Gun to a Bar a Good Idea? How’s that for a Loaded Question?
The Arizona legislature seems to be fast-tracking a new bill to allow patrons of bars to bring their weapons into those establishments. The Govenor, Jan Brewer, still has to give it her okay [...]
Yesterday, Glenn linked a comment James Taranto made in his Best of the Web column for the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal:
Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It’s a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten [...]
From the Orange County Register’s Jennifer Muir and Brian Joseph:
Assemblyman Jose Solorio
SACRAMENTO – Lawmakers headed home Thursday without a budget deal, as the state controller’s office began printing tens of thousands of IOUs, leaving vendors, municipal governments and students who receive financial aid bracing for [...]
The Gigaton Throwdown Initiative was launched to educate and inspire investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and policy makers to “think big” and understand what it would take to scale up clean energy massively over the next 10 years. A unique group from the business community [...]
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