Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Many of you have heard by now that Governor Janet Napolitano has been tapped by the Obama transition team to become the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano may be Homeland Security pick It is only a matter of official confirmation. Napolitano would be a vast improvement over Michael … Read more
by David Safier God bless Kathleen Parker. The columnist was one of the first conservatives to reject Sarah Palin in print and came as close to saying she was voting for Obama as you can come without saying it. Since then, she's been on a tear in her columns. Today's topic is the way the … Read more
by David Safier It's important to know which stores are Christmas-friendly, Christmas-negligent and Christmas-offensive when you go shopping. So we owe James Dobson's Focus on the Family a vote of thanks for telling us which is which. Just so you know what each category means: "Christmas-friendly" retailers — prominent acknowledgment of "Christmas" "Christmas-negligent" retailers — marginalized … Read more
by David Safier The "Conservatives Jumping Ship" series was supposed to end at the election, but here's another one: David Frum, former speech writer for Bush and now an author trying to figure out the shape of a new conservatism. First he said less than complementary things about Sarah Palin. Now he's leaving the National … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Most of you by now have seen the electoral map depiction of the 2008 election (h/t fivethirtyeight.com). But simply using the map of the United States creates a visual distortion of election results in that the map is based upon land mass and is not weighted for population or other factors. Western … Read more