Marc Comtois
Last night, Barack Obama stated: I think Exxon Mobil, which made $12 billion, record profits over the last several quarters, they can afford to pay a little more so that ordinary families who are hurting out there, they are trying to figure out how they are going to afford food, how they are going to…
Markos Moulitsas (Daily Kos himself) recently wrote (h/t) that he wants to “break the conservative movement’s backs and crush their spirits.” He wants to “destroy their most beloved leaders” and silence “some of their most cherished voices.” Further, he writes, with the 2008 election, the liberal/progressive/Democratic movement “[has] been blessed with an opportunity to help…
As I mentioned Friday, I spent the weekend visiting family in Maine. I also had the chance to talk to folks, observe the local media and get a gauge of how the political winds are blowing in the Pine Tree State’s 2nd Congressional District. The region I visited was in the southern part of Maine-2,…
In the wayback, I kinda enjoyed Northern Exposure, especially the quirky Alaskan Maggie O’Connell as portrayed by Janine Turner. Turner is a big Sarah Palin fan, pro-life and conservative. I was always so proud to portray the spunky, self-reliant, smart Maggie O’Connell. Maggie flew her own plane, shot her own moose, marched to the beat…
Apparently, conservatives can be found everywhere, even at RISD (via Ian). Zach Brown, founder and president of RISD Conservatives and a sophomore illustration major, said, “I became politically involved once I came to college because I was constantly being fed liberal propaganda.” Brown, who considers Ronald Reagan his personal hero, described Rhode Island School of…
About a decade ago, Obama worked for ACORN (yes he did, really) and now it appears they’re doing everything to work for him…. In Ohio. In Wisconsin. In Michigan. In Pennsylvania. In Missouri. In Nevada. In Indiana (105% voter registration!). Maybe in Connecticut? Best of all, you paid for it!
I don’t know anything other than what’s reported below, but this strikes me as heavy-handed, no? A 20-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges this morning after authorities accused her of muzzling her two pit bulls and abandoning them in an apartment before she went to a hospital to give birth. Judge Jeanne…
For those wondering, yes, I’m still around, but priorities are elsewhere at the moment (nothing wrong, just a temporary shift in priorities). I’m keeping up with the news, if not my commentary (no great loss, that, I hear some saying). FWIW, some scattered thoughts…. I watched the first 15 minutes of last night’s debate and…
It just went down (ROLL CALL here. Both RI Reps voted YEA). The House has defeated the $700 billion bail-out legislation for the financial industry. More than enough members of the House had cast votes to defeat the Bush administration-pushed bill, but the vote was held open for a while, apparently as efforts were under…
FWIW, according the Wall Street Journal, new study has tried to identify regional personality traits. Probably more akin to pop psychology than science, but what the heck…consider this lunchtime reading. In the past decade, [cross-cultural psychology] has been reinvigorated by the development of a 44-question personality test that evaluates five traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism…