Posts Tagged ‘Politics & Religion’

Congress just sent a bill on to Bush to spend $170 billion (yes, billion) to “stimulate the economy” by sending us tax rebates.
I’m all for more money in my pocket, but we’ve already got a deficit of over $9 trillion! How about we do something intelligent, like revamping the tax system or cutting pork barrel [...]

I think I solved the mystery of why the media doesn’t list third-party presidential candidates: a lot of them are unelectable whackjobs.
Let’s start simple, shall we? Consider Gene Amondson. Judging by his website, Gene’s primary goal is to promote his web designer. Nothing says you’re a valid presidential candidate like a front page that has [...]

My friend Clark just sent me a link to ABC’s Vote 2008 Match-o-matic that finds your top three candidates based on 11 sample questions covering the war in Iraq, health care, immigration and tax reform. It told me my top three candidates were Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul. If need be, you can [...]

Huckabee got busted again, this time claiming most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergymen. Best case scenario: 4 out of 56 of them were practicing or former preachers. Only 1 was an active minister. (Thanks for the link, Tim.)
This is the second time this week he’s demonstrated religion is going to [...]

Presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee is quoted as follows regarding abortion and the reduction in the American workforce:
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in [...]