After all the hoopla, hankies (for happy tears), the high-fives, and everything else that constitutes a euphoric political consummation, the democrats are in for a harsh reality when they wake up next to a strange man the morning after.

The media is starting to admit the inevitable. Barring an unprecedented delegate betrayal, Barack Obama has the nomination wrapped up. But will this tasty morsel of Liberal cream turn sour in our mouths?

The liberal prophet of moral transparency isn't so transparent after all. In an attempt to explain away a twenty-year association with a voracious bigot, Obama gave, as principal reason, avuncular loyalty. My major objection to this is that you don't usually inherit pastors like you do uncles or grandmothers.

The argument over the moral underpinnings of libertarianism basically boils down to the fact that there is necessarily a communitarian element to ethics. If we accept that libertarianism means radical individualism, then libertarian ethics appears to be an oxymoron. And for those libertarians who do believe in the Cartesian form of individualism as the basis of libertarianism, it likely is an oxymoron. I’m not sure a libertarianism whose philosophical underpinnings are the same as those that gave us the French Revolution (especially the Terror), Naziism, and Communism is the kind of libertarianism we really want.

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When you think McCain-Economy, maybe this picture enters your mind. McCain is scared stiff of the economy. At least, that's what the media tells us.

The truth is, this is just an outmoded carry-over from the primary season (granted, not yet completely over). When you compare McCain with an economy guru like Romney or even a long-time governor like Huckabee, McCain's lack of familiarity stands out like a sore thumb. McCain, the economic neophyte, took several solid hits during the primaries on account of this weakness. The hits connected, but the knockout never came. In the end, his war-rhetoric won out, and now he's the all-but-certain nominee.

Here is an interesting court case that sheds some light on the home school dilema.

I got the following in an email from here.
It is a report from the Law Offices of Spector, Middleton, Young & Minney.

Read on.

A time for change seems to be the most common of all political promises. When any politician wants to attract the "peoples" support, they promise change. It doesn't matter what type of change as long as change is part of the rhetoric. Whether or not change is needed, change is the ultimate political standard that every politician seems to rely on.

Incumbents want you to change from where they've been to what they will never be and those hoping for office want you to believe that they will change the moons orbit around the earth if you only have the faith to vote for them. What ever happened to the old adage, "if its not broke don't fix it?"

I think change is a great idea especially if we all work together to impact real change on the electorate; in other words, it's time to change every one in office and hope that the new guys can do a better job. Its highly unlikely but its worth the change, don't you think? Just to find out if change really works, let's give it a try. Let's change our own myopic attitudes and offer a real change to those who try to convince us that change is on the horizon.

What could happen? What real damage could be inflicted on our government if we changed those in office and gave the chance to others? I think its worth the try, don't you?

While on my adventure in Kos land, I got to thinking.
People talk about Records a lot-- they say things like, Obama doesn't have much of a record and it's super duper liberal, or Hillary's succeeded in crafting a fairly moderate voting record over the years., or even, McCain's record, despite what they tell you, is rather conservative.

That kind of thing.

The other thing people (politicians mainly) say about records is that, if you would just look at my record, the whole world will be evident.

The fact is not many of us go out of our way to read up on the candidates voting history. So I decided to present the BHO and HRC records side by side here.

Keep in mind that missed votes often say volumes more than the voted votes. It's like McCain saying he's a social conservative when he's tried to avoid all the key social conservative votes -- the misses matter.

March means death.
Death to winter.

Death to Caesar.
"Long live the King!"

Would he believe them?
Friends like winter turned cold

And March means fragrant olives--
The symbol of peace.

The olive tree is overgrown.
Peace is ripe, ready to fall

The Ides of March portend--
Caesar, winter,

March means an early grave
Who is Her soothsayer?