My Way Or The Highway
I am an Illinois resident, but my parents live right on the border with Indiana so I tend to follow what is going on in the state. Well last night Richard Mourdock beat Senator Dick Lugar in the Republican primary for his Senate seat. Lugar’s concession statement warned that Mourdock’s “rejectionist orthodoxy” and “unrelenting partisan mindset” would ...
Three Not So Smart Senators
And these are apart of the 100 most important people in our nation. A trio of GOP senators over the course of the day today claimed to have seen a photo of the slain Osama bin Laden—even as the White House was announcing that it would not release any such photos. But now it appears ...
McCain: The Man Who Never Was
From Vanity Fair’s long, detailed, and brutal profile: Desperate to keep his Senate seat, John McCain repudiated his record, his principles, and even his maverick reputation, entrenching himself as the anti-Obama. Which raises the issue of whether the leader so many Americans admired—and so many journalists covered—ever truly existed [....] But it fell to Hayworth, ...
Senator Byrd's Speech On Eve of Iraq War
Many may only thing of Senator Robert Byrd as being a former member of the KKK. Against desegregation. Clearly it is impossible to not note those items when reflecting on his life. Many younger people may recall something else from Byrd’s past, that on March 19, 2003 as we neared the start of the Iraq ...
