Reformed Chicks Blabbing

You’ve got to love poetic justice, it’s so wonderful when someone gets snagged on the very snares they set for others: The nation’s top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his…

Evidently, the Secret Service ordered security to stop screening the crowd at an Obama event: Security details at Barack Obama’s rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena. The order to put down the metal detectors and…

Why did he vote against the appropriations bill for military spending? Why didn’t he make sure that funds where put in the bill for weapons for the troops in Afghanistan? It’s not like he couldn’t do something to help.(via)

Who says Hillary doesn’t connect with youth?(via)

I thank the Lord that there wasn’t anything going on like this when I was dating but I worry about my daughters.

July 10, 2008 is hug a Calvinist Day. Um…not to knock Ken Shepherd’s holiday but we didn’t get the knick name, “the frozen chosen” for nothing. I’m certainly not the huggy kind of Christian. In fact the huggy Christians freak me out. And Calvin doesn’t strike me as a huggy Christian either. So, I’m pretty…

You know, for the rest of us who aren’t under Obama’s spell, this is pretty darn freaky, you realize that don’t you? “This is not a campaign for president of the United States, this is a movement to change the world,” he said as he introduced Obama last week in Baltimore. “You do not get…

This could be helpful (not that I’m encouraging anyone to break the law 🙂 A notorious Norwegian hacker known as DVD Jon is preparing for another run-in with the music industry after he released software that lets iPod owners copy music and videos bought from iTunes and play it on other devices. The program allows…

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They wouldn’t be too far off the mark on recasting him as another Bush (especially on illegal immigration and his support for the war): John McCain has a reputation as a straight-talking maverick who appeals to the independent voters who can tip the balance in this fall’s presidential election. Democrats don’t want to run against…

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