Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

The Scott Freeman Republican Caucus

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

OK, it's time to put aside the debating and vote up! Here is the list of those still in the hunt for the GOP Nomination. Vote for the one you are most likely to vote for (Democrats are eligible to vote as well). If you would, leave ...

Odd and Ends

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

* This Just In: The University of Arkansas has made an agreement with Houston Nutt and Ole Miss to loan up to 5 players per game next season. In the desire of the U of A to help Houston out as much as possible we will also ensure that ...

Thursday is Thanksgiving…

Monday, November 19th, 2007

...which means we will be exactly 6 weeks away from the Iowa Caucus. And finally we can begin to weed out the riff-raff and actually see some progression in this 6 year campaign cycle. And if NH follows through with its threat to hold their primary in December we could ...

Moving, Part 5

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I hope to continue blogging regularly over the next few days but I don't really know what my schedule will be. Packing is picking up steam and the desktop is already dismantled. Tracy and I will have to fight over the laptop. One of the things that I am ...

Quote Of The Day

Friday, September 28th, 2007

What happened to you, Mr. President? The money needed for expanding health care to poor children in America is far less than the money that has been lost and wasted on corruption in Iraq. How have your priorities stayed so far from those children, whom you once agreed were so ...

Does Brian McLaren Know Where Osama Bin Laden is hiding?

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I really think this guy is serious. His headline is "Why Al Qaeda Supports The Emergent Church." Read this excerpt: The emergent church is an ally in the war against radical Islam–al Qaeda’s ally. Not in the sense they are supplying bullets and bombs to Osama, of course, but in the ...

Hitting The Campaign Trail…

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Wednesday's are generally meant for political reflections on the ole blog. I didn't last week so let's get back into it with a few (completely insignificant) nuggets. --Does anybody besides me find it interesting that Mitt Romney's favorite book is Battlefield Earth? Now, I love Scientology as much as ...

The Candidates: Democratic Detritus

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

At this point we have looked at the top three Democratic contenders for the 2008 nomination. We've looked at the top 3 Republicans. We've spun through the list of Republicans who are basically throwing money at a lost cause. You can access those discussions here. Barring the inevitable late entries by Gingrich, Thompson and ...

The Candidates: Republican Riff-Raff

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

For previous discussion on candidates click here. I was going to continue with individual entries but at this point there is such a steep drop-off between the top three in each party that I just don't have a whole lot to say about each of them. And with the recent ...

The Candidates: Barack Obama

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

For previous analysis and discussion click on the individual names: Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Guiliani, John Edwards, and John McCain. Again, another week passes without any changes to the field. I thought I would be in the market for a new candidate to support but for now the campaign ...