The Hucakbee Hustle: good dance moves, easy to follow

Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it better. Dirty Dancing and Strictly Ballroom pale in comparison.
The American GOP Forum at Morgan State in Baltimore. A chance for Republican presidential wannabes to strut their stuff for a largely African American audience in attendance — and with, maybe, hundreds of thousands more courtesy of PBS, who televised the debate. [...]

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The Jena 6 and the Psyche of the South

I am a life-long Southerner. My family, branches both here in South Carolina and in Virginia, were plantation owners; cotton and tobacco growers who bought and sold people, broke families and bodies and spirits for profit. I was raised by genteel racists who still claimed “Our darkies did not want to be free. They depended [...]

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Dubya’s New War Plan for Iraq: Enduring Bleed’em

Barack Obama says it best: There are no good options in Iraq, only bad ones and worse ones.
Then there’s the worst one. The Decider-in-Chief laid it on the line for us last night.  We’ve gone from Operation Enduring Freedom to Operation Enduring Bleed’em. A stay-the-course “enduring relationship with our ally” while they fight off Al [...]

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A Campaign Commercial I’d Like To See…

Shame you can’t have a 4:20 commercial…

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The “Outsider”: role-playing the untainted Law and Order President

So. It’s official. After a protracted lackluster start-up leaves the Right yawning through primary season, a frustrated GOP offers up the Grand Ole Poseur. The Great White Hope. The near-Ronald Reagan hits the campaign trail.
Actor/lawyer/former Tennessee Senator Fred Dalton Thompson is off and running. In it to win it. The collective conservative sigh of relief was explosive [...]

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