Reformed Chicks Blabbing

Eleanor Clift is suggesting that the Democrats nominate Al Gore as their presidential candidate with Obama as his running mate as a way to break the stalemate with Clinton. It would be an unbeatable combination of national security, experience and change (yeah, nothing says change like the guy who was VP for 8 years and…

So, you have candidate who promises to raise taxes (President Obama) and one who promises not to, who will the public elect? The one who promises to raise taxes, of course! Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president. “No new taxes,” the likely GOP…

Um….I thought the world hated Bush and can’t wait for the Democrats to take over. Someone better tell these Africans that they shouldn’t be so friendly to Bushitler: Unpopular at home and in much of the world during the last year of his presidency, George W. Bush is basking in rare adulation on his African…

I hope Pelosi is enjoying her vacation and that it’s worth our safety: It is worth observing that the Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence, was the Director of President Clinton’s National Security Agency from 1992-’96. He is not a partisan hack. He was a Vice Admiral in the Navy and is an old…

Maybe: Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan’s NHK public broadcasting network. This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success…

According to the Iraq PM (but what does he know): Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki proclaimed on Friday that Al-Qaeda had been routed in Baghdad thanks to a security plan launched a year ago, and would soon be defeated throughout the country. “Thank God, we destroyed the cells of Al-Qaeda. They have been chased out…

Crowd sizes don’t necessarily translate into votes, the press should now that by now: After a few days on the Huckabee campaign bus recently, we walked into a Hillary Clinton event outside Cleveland last night. What a difference the possibilty of winning versus the likelyhood of losing makes. The Clinton event is in a packed…

“Is atonement even possible?” Man! What an amazing scene! I can’t believe this was on a TV show. It really demonstrates the emptiness of the rhetoric of liberal theology when you need to know if you can ever find forgiveness for your sins. What can a chaplin, who believes in a Christ who was never…

Uh oh! Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted. Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent said engineer Ray Kurzweil. He said machines and humans would eventually merge through devices implanted in the body…

Pretty funny “Dear Obama” letter parodying the fickleness of the youth vote. I know this is going to sound strange, but it’s not you, Barack, it’s me. Really it always was me, but now it’s really, really about me. I don’t know when we started to feel weird supporting you, but: My friend Hanna thinks…

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