Hardball: Barack Should Have Played Hoops

What are the Hardballites actually saying here anyway. Is it Black people can’t bowl. Or is basketball the way to get in touch with African Americans. What does bowling have to do with race. I’m white, grew up in a blue collar town, bowled on Saturdays and I suck too. It’s clearly not racist other…

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President Booed, Matthews Admires

This tonight’s Hardball Moment. Chris plays the video showing President Bush getting booed at the Nationals opening game. Actually I thought the cheers outnumbered the boos … and so did Chris Matthews. Yikes!

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Obama: McCain will wage a 100 year war, sorta, kinda

Barack Obama and his supporters have been using the “McCain wants wage a 100 year war” for weeks now, except as we outlined on the show, is not accurate. Why he even said it again today. But after “Fact Check” busted the myth, reporters challenged him for taking the quote out of context … and…

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Lieberman On McCain: 3 Great Bonus Bites

I everyone … under the weather again. Every time I fly. I’ve posted three video cuts from Joe Lieberman with George Stephanopoulis on This Week, because he is our Senator and it was a great interview. First he explains why he backs McCain. The party, he says left me. Here’s a second bite on why…

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Democrats Jump to Fix Problems

I call it the “we-have-to-do-something” disease. A tragic event occurs – or almost occurs – and everyone screams that the government should do something to solve the problem or prevent it from occurring again. It’s happening in Connecticut in reaction to a few tragic car accidents where teens were driving too damn fast, it happened…

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Recycling Gone Mad

Why does the government make things so difficult? By definition – since we’re talking about the government after all – this is a rhetorical question, but some people are so confused about recycling rules that they have simply given up; hiding plastics of all sorts inside of paper bags in the regular trash cans. I…

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Ohio soldier’s remains found in Iraq

While a sad end, at least his family now has closer. Our thoughts and prayer are with with SGT Maupin and his family today. What a strong and inspiring family….here’s an piece from the article The Maupins said they would hold to their previous plans for Monday and appear in the baseball season opening day…

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Lieberman Hits Dems

I think the following quote from the Senator says it all…. “It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government,” he said. “It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and very, very…

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