<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966</id><updated>2009-10-12T20:41:44.412-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Political Figs</title><subtitle type='html'>Isa 32:5  The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>192</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-3870784573477051240</id><published>2008-11-06T19:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T19:09:44.078-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to cross the aisle.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/3870784573477051240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/3870784573477051240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_11_02_archive.html#3870784573477051240' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7Szy8dHcINY/SROjGQrrzTI/AAAAAAAAAH0/aO9qGQMey3c/s72-c/floodroad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-4494082184243300029</id><published>2008-10-28T10:17:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T10:19:00.102-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Democratic Agenda for Americaby Patrick Buchanan            What does the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid offer?    Rep. Barney Frank is calling for new tax hikes on the most successful and a 25 percent across-the-board slash in national defense. Sen. John Kerry is talking up new and massive federal spending, a la FDR's New Deal. Specifically, we can almost surely expect:    -- Swift amnesty</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4494082184243300029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4494082184243300029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_10_26_archive.html#4494082184243300029' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-2612885393242996441</id><published>2008-10-27T19:43:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T19:43:45.325-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABC News: Media's Presidential Bias and Decline</title><summary type='text'>ABC News: Media's Presidential Bias and Decline: "My hard-living -- and when I knew her, scary -- grandmother was one of the first women reporters for the Los Angeles Times. And my father, though profoundly dyslexic, followed a long career in intelligence to finish his life (thanks to word processors and spellcheckers) as a very successful freelance writer. I've spent 30 years in every part of </summary><link rel='related' href='http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=6099188&amp;page=1' title='ABC News: Media&apos;s Presidential Bias and Decline'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/2612885393242996441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/2612885393242996441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_10_26_archive.html#2612885393242996441' title='ABC News: Media&apos;s Presidential Bias and Decline'/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-4473960765039898251</id><published>2008-10-07T11:50:00.011-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T05:06:13.571-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hillary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remember'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memory'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forget'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recall'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Worked for Hillary!Two hundred and fifty times in sworn testimony, Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall." This was nothing compared to what others from Arkansas said to protect her and her philandering husband. Patsy Thomasson, who was in charge of drug matters in the Clinton White House, had a lapse of memory 420 times. Jennifer O'Connor 343 times; Dwight Holton 348 times; and Jeff Eller 697. It</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4473960765039898251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4473960765039898251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_10_05_archive.html#4473960765039898251' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-323139874496852685</id><published>2008-10-06T16:53:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-06T16:56:50.849-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Look! and Wonder!---------Maybe it is a good think that Baldwin didn't leave the US as he promised he would do if Bush were elected.He rightly blames the Democrat party for the present financial meltdown.  Isn't is a wonder that the party that bemoans the fact that everyone in the world hates the U.S. has arranged to sell the banks of the world bogus paper backed by politically correct housing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/323139874496852685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/323139874496852685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_10_05_archive.html#323139874496852685' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-3998552076041021812</id><published>2008-09-15T20:43:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T20:48:40.473-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Sarah Palin Makes Her Sick. Mary Mitchell, a "real" feminist, writing in the Chicago Sun [not to be confused with the real sun which lights instead of darkening the earth], says that Palin makes her sick, and goes on to give the worn-out democratic talking points that have been exploded in less than two weeks.But Mary should keep it up, for every article like hers pushes the polls for McCain/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/3998552076041021812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/3998552076041021812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_14_archive.html#3998552076041021812' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-6705242259130276041</id><published>2008-09-13T09:56:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T10:01:38.775-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>McCain Flies His Campaign Past ObamaBy Michael Barone"John McCain was trained as a fighter pilot. In his selection of Sarah Palin, and in his convention and campaigning since, he has shown that he learned an important lesson from his fighter pilot days: He has gotten inside Barack Obama's OODA loop."-------If the quotation above is provocative, the article will be even more so.  Read it here  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/6705242259130276041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/6705242259130276041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#6705242259130276041' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-303936041764703797</id><published>2008-09-12T03:33:00.012-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T04:28:00.745-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whiny'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pollitt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kurtz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Powerline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palin'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>To laugh out loud, be sure to read the post at PowerLine, which gives a response to Howard Kurtz's ridiculous tirade in the Washington Post &amp;nbsp yesterday about why the media is very angry at Palin and McCain.  Be sure especially to go to the comments section afterwards.  Reminds me of Dan Rather's implosion four years ago when he got caught trying to rig the election against Bush.It is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/303936041764703797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/303936041764703797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#303936041764703797' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-6458676704959225781</id><published>2008-09-11T06:54:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T07:12:28.588-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ontology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='definition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palin'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama - David Paul Kuhn and Bill Nichols - Politico.com: "Lake joined other Democratic veterans, some speaking not for attribution, in emphasizing a classic liberal woe: that the Democrat let the Republican define him. “Obama needed to define himself,” Lake said. “I do think that during the Democratic convention we should have done a better job of defining McCain.”" </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/6458676704959225781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/6458676704959225781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#6458676704959225781' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-5936778237097555620</id><published>2008-09-10T11:23:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T11:47:08.924-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lipstick'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It is either stupid or malicious.One of the marks of leadership is to know the times and seasons.   If Obama had a lick of sense he would not have used the figure of lipstick on a pig after the nomination of Governor Palin.  Governor Palin has completely changed the nature of the campaign and anyone with sense knows it.If Obama knows that the campaign has changed, then it is unforgivable that he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/5936778237097555620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/5936778237097555620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#5936778237097555620' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7Szy8dHcINY/SMgIBLJNfgI/AAAAAAAAAFI/0BURFW43R5A/s72-c/pig.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-4305984204342636711</id><published>2008-09-09T04:56:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T05:12:39.391-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>But they wouldn't be liberals if they had or respected values!"[Learning respect] will be hard. They will have to develop some regard for the values that the middle of the country expresses when it votes Republican. Religion. Unembarrassed flag-waving patriotism. Freedom to succeed or fail through one’s own efforts. Refusal to be pitied, bossed around or talked down to. And all those other </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4305984204342636711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4305984204342636711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#4305984204342636711' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-4415296826068567772</id><published>2008-08-21T23:53:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T00:01:12.060-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Newsmax.com – Obama Slammed Over Clarence Thomas Remark: "Kmiec noted that Thomas is the only Supreme Court Justice who prior to his appointment “recognized the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — that the Constitution is a means of indicating the inalienable rights that are traceable to our Creator.”Obama added that he also wouldn't have nominated Antonin </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4415296826068567772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4415296826068567772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_08_17_archive.html#4415296826068567772' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7Szy8dHcINY/SK5WAsfW0QI/AAAAAAAAAE4/O_zM0ewKm38/s72-c/AG00281_.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-9135105052450860286</id><published>2008-08-18T19:44:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T19:44:24.081-06:00</updated><title type='text'>California doctors lose gay discrimination case</title><summary type='text'>California doctors lose gay discrimination case: "Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled on Monday."=============Then I suspect that this will mean that some of California's best doctors will leave the state. Then will California enslave them to make them stay?</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080819000010.m3bbqvay&amp;show_article=1' title='California doctors lose gay discrimination case'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/9135105052450860286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/9135105052450860286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_08_17_archive.html#9135105052450860286' title='California doctors lose gay discrimination case'/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-4222103734996928654</id><published>2008-08-14T04:43:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T04:46:57.982-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Maureen Dowd: Yes, she can - International Herald Tribune: "You can almost hear her mind whirring: She's amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps. Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn't eat candy. In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama."--------Oh, Maureen, you doll. How unfaithful and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4222103734996928654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/4222103734996928654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_08_10_archive.html#4222103734996928654' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-8667131279867558507</id><published>2008-08-13T12:40:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T12:47:42.179-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Say! Are these things related:Nancy Pelosi is against drilling for oilShe has a financial connect to T Boone Pickens who wants windmills.The price of oil is high.Russia is making obscene profits from the high price of oilThe Russian army that invaded Georgia is very modern and new, high tech and formidable.Hmmmmmm.Why do liberal democrats always support policies that advance the cause of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/8667131279867558507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/8667131279867558507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_08_10_archive.html#8667131279867558507' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-2395021285213508214</id><published>2008-08-12T10:51:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T11:07:31.289-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A return to Fun and Games.It has been almost two years since I posted to this blog, but there is so much material for good humor and ridicule out there, that I just cannot refrain any longer.For instance.  Barack tells us to inflate our tires.  Thank you, Mama Barack.  All we need is a president to institute the Cabinet position of Tire Inflation.  Will they have random checking like they do for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/2395021285213508214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/2395021285213508214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2008_08_10_archive.html#2395021285213508214' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-116546460143812176</id><published>2006-12-06T21:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T21:10:01.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This site is being temporarily [perhaps] discontinued for an experiment with a new site.  Please go here</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/116546460143812176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/116546460143812176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2006_12_03_archive.html#116546460143812176' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-115593302364233408</id><published>2006-08-18T14:30:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T14:30:23.656-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>FOXNews.com - Democrats Want to Punish Violators of Presidential Nomination Schedule - You Decide 2006: "Top Democrats, however, fear that a number of states, particularly New Hampshire, will ignore the new voting lineup and choose to hold their nominating contests even earlier. Hoping to put teeth into the new schedule, rules committee members moved to discipline candidates who dare to campaign </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/115593302364233408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/115593302364233408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2006_08_13_archive.html#115593302364233408' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110781198884684177</id><published>2005-02-07T14:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-02-07T14:34:11.550-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The New Republic Online: Tipping Point: "So much harder, in fact, that slashing taxes would actually raise more revenue than before. 'People change their behavior when their marginal incentives change,' explained supply-side guru Arthur Laffer. The resulting 1981 tax cut helped triple the deficit by 1983."--------------This is a prime example how the people over at the New Republic are willing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110781198884684177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110781198884684177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2005_02_06_archive.html#110781198884684177' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110781045862026031</id><published>2005-02-07T14:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-02-07T14:07:38.620-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Dems' Week from Hell: "A former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan berating a cultured black woman, one of whose childhood friends was blown up in Birmingham: This is the image you want to create for your party? Call it strike one."---------As fine an analysis of liberal bankruptcy as you will find on the web.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110781045862026031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110781045862026031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2005_02_06_archive.html#110781045862026031' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110416798130679148</id><published>2004-12-27T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-27T10:19:41.306-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Thomas Sowell: The Joseph Goebbels award: "Events of this past year have shown the need for a special award in journalism for those who think that the purpose of reporting news is to cause the public to adopt the political views of those who do the reporting. Therefore this column announces the first annual Joseph Goebbels award for that journalist who best exemplifies the spirit and the practice</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110416798130679148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110416798130679148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2004_12_26_archive.html#110416798130679148' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110367804599460865</id><published>2004-12-21T18:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-21T18:14:05.993-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Telegraph | Opinion | Say 'Merry Christmas' while you still can: "In Britain, by contrast, the formal symbols remain in place: the Queen is still Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and the Archbishop of York still sits in the House of Lords. But, underneath all that, Christianity has collapsed, the churches are empty and the new Europe is as officious about public expressions of faith but</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110367804599460865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110367804599460865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2004_12_19_archive.html#110367804599460865' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110367736740331511</id><published>2004-12-21T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-21T18:02:47.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Conservative students sue over academic freedom - Courttv.com - Top News: "To many professors, there's a new and deeply troubling aspect to this latest chapter in the debate over academic freedom: students trying to dictate what they don't want to be taught."==========Of course.  Christians have known it for a generation.  They are just getting tired of left-wing, biggotted, biased, and immoral</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110367736740331511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110367736740331511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2004_12_19_archive.html#110367736740331511' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110362734472918532</id><published>2004-12-21T04:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-21T04:09:04.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Frist draws the line on filibusters: "This is the ''nuclear option'' that creates fear and loathing among Democrats and weak knees for some Republicans, including conservative opinion leaders. Ever since Frist publicly embraced the nuclear option, he has been accused of abusing the Senate's cherished tradition of extended debate. In truth, during six years as majority leader, Democrat Robert C. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110362734472918532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110362734472918532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2004_12_19_archive.html#110362734472918532' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896966.post-110204828040197389</id><published>2004-12-02T21:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-02T21:31:20.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>David Frum's Diary on National Review Online: "Meanwhile, I spent yesterday afternoon fielding calls from Canadians and especially Canadian journalists by no means friendly to the president who just could not stop enthusing about the wit, charm, warmth, and understanding of the president's speech. "=======Hurrah for our good friends north of the border.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110204828040197389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896966/posts/default/110204828040197389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://politicalfigs.blogspot.com/2004_11_28_archive.html#110204828040197389' title=''/><author><name>Bud</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00429704540748076163'/></author></entry></feed>