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After Wednesday night's debate debacle Arizona Governor Jan Brewer-Angle-Palin has decided she's not going to make that mistake again. She's taking her message to the people of Arizona "in a different venue" (presumably one where they don't ask questions, or only ask the ones Brewer wants to answer). Besides, she only did the first one for the money. From the Arizona Daily Star: "Incumbent Republican Jan Brewer said Thursday she has no intention of participating in...

I remember sitting in political science classes as a freshman and sophmore at TCU. It was then that I learned the most interesting and powerful fact in politics. Young people don't vote. This shocked me. I remember filling out my first vote for Bill Clinton as a high school senior. I grew up in a political household. My dad was a political science major and history teacher as well. It just seemed natural. Furthermore, I...

Watch as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer kind of .......uhhh, loses her place in her opening statement during last night's debate with Democratic challenger Terry Goddard:  But it got even weirder. During the debate Goddard asked Brewer to retract her ridiculous statement about the alleged beheadings in the Arizona desert. Brewer evaded the question. Afterwards, several reporters posed the same question to Governor Brewer. First she gave a non-answer, then did her best Sharron Angle impersonation and...

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) on the GOP's "first move" should they gain the majority in the mid-terms: "House Republicans' first move in the majority would be to extend tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) suggested Wednesday evening.  Pence, the third-ranking Republican in the House, said that House Republicans would look to extend the tax cuts they helped President George W. Bush pass in 2001...

Here is a posting offered up two nights ago by Harris County, Texas Judge Executive Ed Emmett on his campaign related Facebook page----"Early voting starts in just 9 weeks. Bev Kaufman, our County Clerk, and her staff are doing a great job responding to the disaster of losing our voting machines in a fire. Too bad some folks are trying to play politics with the situation." (I added the link for this blog post.)Here is the reply...

How did we get here? Given that Republican policies and practices led us to the brink of another Great Depression less than 2 years ago, how did we get to a world where the GOP polls ahead in every category dealing with the economy?How did Democrats go from a clear mandate for change, as evidenced by voters giving them the White House and once-in-a-generation majorities in both Houses of Congress, to the increasingly real prospect...

I promise this isn't about sports, but sports was the impetus for this diatribe. I was discussing the Roger Clemens situation with other people online when the discussion disintegrated into a political discussion about the merits of Congress. I won't bore you with the facts of the case, so I'll boil it down to its simplest ingredients. Roger Clemens allegedly lied to Congress, so Congress has charged him with perjury. He was formally indicted and...

If President Obama's speech last night was a movie I'd give it 2 ½ stars, Not a bomb, but not an Oscar winner either.  It was sort of significant, but not exactly an "historic moment," in my opinion. More like a baby step. An historic moment will be when the last American soldier leaves Iraq. And while it may be called "an end to our combat mission in Iraq" the facts are we still have...

How any Texan can even consider voting for this clown for governor--again--is beyond me. Of course, now that we don't have any voting machines in Harris County (how convenient) it could make his re-election a bit easier. First he takes stimulus money allocated for education, cuts the education budget by the same amount, and puts the stimulus money in the state's "Rainy Day Fund." So to prevent that from happening again, Congressman Lloyd Doggett added...

Since it falls under the heading of cruel and unusual punishment, I won't subject anyone to the video of Sean Hannity interviewing Sarah Palin yesterday. For the masochistic, News Hounds has it. But here's some of what Palin said in response to President Obama telling NBC's Brian Williams that there is a "network of misinformation" which keeps alive non-news like his birth certificate and his religion. "I was pretty appalled at that notion that Brian...