March has three perenial milestones for me: St. Patrick’s Day, March Madness and Spring. I like St. Patrick’s Day best because on that day “everyone is Irish”. In my case, I’m a wee bit Irish and my wife’s two grandfathers were Irish cops in Al Capone’s Chicago and both of their parents came from County […]

Last night I wrote a very brief post on the Jeremiah Wright debacle, which said, in essence, that it was no surprise, and referenced a post that I wrote a month or so ago on that very issue. I took it down, myself, after an hour or two, realizing that the story was not […]

From my old blog, the Daily Aneurysm, two years ago today:
I’ve hinted at this before, but I’m happy to go on record with it today: It’s the official position of this blog that the Democratic Party will find a way to lose the 2008 presidential election. It doesn’t matter who the Repugs put up; the […]

Orlando Patterson, a respected Black sociology professor at Harvard whose judgment on most things I have respected over the years, has an interesting take, to say the least, on Hillary Clinton’s controversial telephone ad that is now credited with helping her win in Texas and save her campaign, for now. He has compared it to […]

Eliot is Hillary’s governor (and pledged superior delegate). She is running to be the moral leader of the free world, among other things. She can show her courage and stripes by calling on Spitzer to resign. This is not an Obama call. But in my judgment, Hillary would score major leadership points by making the […]

Jon Corzine, my governor who doesn’t believe in seat belts, wants everyone to buckle up for this little caper of giving Florida and Michigan a second vote. Break the rules, no problem, we’ll let you vote again. No one gets punished. Fat cats to the rescue.
As Groom reminds us from time to time: follow the […]

There is rejoicing on Wall Street, not because stocks are up, but because New York Governor Spitzer, the Sheriff of Wall Street, (aka, Client # 9) is down, caught up in a prostitution ring that has big time clients in New York, Washington, and Paris. I guess it’s the Dumbos’ turn. Now I’m not saying that Eliot and […]

You can consider the source and fughetaboutit, or if you have not seen it yet, you can read a spot on op-ed by Peggy Noonan in this Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. In my judgment it is the best, depressing, but the best analysis on the Obama/Clinton evolving quagmire that I have seen. She writes:
What the Democrats lost this […]

There are only two chances Barack has to be president: this year if he wins the nomination, and this year if he agrees to be vice-president. He is currently ahead in the delegate count and there is no way Hillary can catch him unless she wins every remaining primary by 57 percent, counting yesterday’s Wyoming primary that she […]

He should have grown his Lincoln beard before he announced for president (see the link). If he had he would still be in the race, the most qualified of any of the pretenders. (See Lefty’s post below). A guy has an advantage here: gone is the double chin and in comes the cool.
Now out of […]