Rahm Emanuel, briefly

Doubtless, others well versed in the intricacies of the Cook County/Chicago Machine can better elucidate just how indebted President-elect Obama is to the selfsame organization against which he purportedly fought in his days a community organizer. However, friend to Mr. Obama or not, Rahm Emanuel’s selection as chief of staff should remind us immediately of [...]

House to vote on bailout today; please, God, let the Republicans show that they have a spine!

WASHINGTON — The House braced for a difficult vote set for Monday on a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry after a weekend of tense negotiations produced a plan that Congressional leaders portrayed as greatly strengthened by new taxpayer safeguards.
The 110-page bill, intended to ease a growing credit crisis, came after a frenzied week [...]

Palin’s war prayer

All over the web, Sarah Palin’s already infamous address to ministry students at her former church:
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”
The first sentence, [...]

Arm your-self: The government is coming to get you.

Courtesy of Will at The Reactionary Epicurean, this terrifying piece in on the Washington Times’ web-log.
According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.
This bracelet would:
• take the place of an airline boarding pass
• contain personal information about the traveler
• be able to [...]

Iraqi prime minister suggests time-table; immediately disappears into mysterious car, never again to be seen

Just kidding. I hope. In to-day’s Washington Post, Sudarsan Raghavan reports that
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed.
Maliki floated the idea on Monday during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, where [...]

A sign of end times?

As he often does, my roommate Dustin, home for lunch, tuned the big-screen to Maury. A most remarkable scenario, one almost disappointing to the sick type of person who enjoys such programming, arose.
Dawan is the father of a year-old son born to his ex-girlfriend. A young black man, certainly no more than twenty-years old, [...]