I ran across these and thought they were pretty interesting and might escape notice. There is a stream of candidates heading to Google to kiss the ring of the internets’ 800 pound gorilla. Hillary Clinton: Advertisement Bill Richardson: John Edwards: On the other side of the aisle John McCain and, recently Ron Paul have appeared … Read more

I knew there was a reason I’ve always liked this guy, despite his being on the wrong side of politics. Tucson’s own Dr. Richard Carmona, all around cowboy and former Surgeon General in the Bush Administration has come out swinging at the Administration’s muzzling of him on important, but politically sensitive topic during his tenure. … Read more

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Link: Ex-aides limit testimony on attorneys "Excuse me Ms. Taylor, but your Fuhrerprinzip is showing…" You might have heard the term ‘The Blue Wall of Silence‘ in reference to police propensity to circle the wagons in response to investigations of police misconduct. I think the title is an appropriate sobriquet for what we’re seeing here … Read more

Gabby Giffords came to Drinking Liberally and we all had some good fun. There should be video of the event available here soon. One of the questions that came up was the issue of whether Gabby was open to impeachment of the President and Vice President. During the campaign, she was rather dismissive of the … Read more

Now that Scooter’s jail sentence has been commuted, we can all see the deep respect this Administration has for our system of justice. It doesn’t take a great deal of political acumen to understand what happened here. My mother, about the least guileful or politically cynical person you could imagine, told me that it was … Read more

I gotta say I was somewhat surprised when Gabbi’s office contacted us for a date at Drinking Liberally. I had just tore into her over her vote on the Iraq supplementals that kept the troops in Iraq until at least September. I sent her a letter which I published here outlining my objection and visited … Read more