I know that as many as eight of you shall be disappointed, but I won’t be live-blogging the president’s address on health care this evening. These folks will, and it’ll be good. I’ll read the transcript later tonight. I’ll give The One a bullet in tomorrow’s Miscellanea, but short of something truly revolutionary, I probably … Read more
The White House web site has published the text of the speech Obama intends to give to public school students nationwide tomorrow. I find nothing blatantly offensive in Obama’s remarks. Frankly, after the outcry (and hastily revised accompanying classroom materials), it would surprise me if I did. (I do find it interesting that the speech … Read more
Another of the fine people with whom Barack Obama habitually surrounds himself has politically perished. “Green jobs czar” Van Jones, whose star has fallen noticeably even since I started typing this sentence, quit yesterday. Things started getting dicey for him when footage of him calling Republicans “assholes” surfaced. Then, it came to light that he … Read more