On immigration, Bill O’Reilly asks John McCain…”But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure [...]

More twisted logic from the administration that keeps me in stitches nearly every single day.
From IHT:
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans [...]

I ran across this recent article The Porn Myth in New York Magazine which comes to a rather disturbing conclusion..
“For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.�
What’s your opinion?

First we had the White House declaring that its visitor logs were classified. Now, in yet another example of the “none of your damn business” school of government, it turns out the vice president has done the same.
A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who [...]

Two examples of religious bigotry today, which helps illustrate the difference between individual and government discrimination.
First, in New Hampshire, an idiot confronted Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney’s visit to New Hampshire started on a sour note Tuesday when a restaurant patron declared he would not vote for the Republican presidential contender because of his faith.
“I’m one person [...]

Pretty damn cool. It’s like Apple’s iPhone, only bigger and seemingly much more useful in the long run.

Here’s more from Pop Sci:
Gattis took out a digital camera and placed it on the Surface. Instantly, digital pictures spilled out onto the tabletop. As Gattis touched and dragged each picture, it followed his fingers around the screen. [...]

Americablog has an interesting find regarding Mary Cheney and her partner’s new child. The official White House site has a photo of Dick and Lynne Cheney holding the child, with this caption…
Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, Wednesday, May 23, 2007. He weighed 8 lbs., [...]

It could all come down to electability, not social purity.
From Politico:
Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on abortion and homosexuality mark him as the most socially liberal Republican presidential candidate in more than a generation, is so far winning the contest for the support of social conservatives, according to a new analysis of recent polls.
Forty-four percent of [...]

In this edition, as in all of the CODGOV series, we select volunteers and draftees from the blogosphere and main stream media on the singular topic of government divided between the major parties

John Kanzius is all over the local Florida media, so here are a bunch of stories about his interesting new invention.

This is definitely good news.
From Wash Post:
The new rules would require companies to tell customers 45 days before terms of a credit card contract are changed, compared with 15 days now. And the rules would expand the list of changes requiring advance notice to include those involving penalty interest rates, which often range above 30 [...]

We’ve had flexible video screens before, but none with this resolution. The applications for this technology will be endless, and could especially help our soldiers in the field.
In any event, very cool stuff here.

He was on CNN on Sunday, and the interview was posted to YouTube.
I really like what he’s saying.

Here are some interesting stats about Paul…
* He has never voted to raise taxes.
* He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
* He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
* He has never voted to [...]

Sounds crazy, but just read…
SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — A Florida man may have accidentally invented a machine that could solve the gasoline and energy crisis plaguing the U.S., WPBF News 25 reported.
Sanibel Island resident John Kanzius is a former broadcast executive from Pennsylvania who wondered if his background in physics and radio could come in [...]

Talk about scary. Just read…
From Washington Post:
Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.
Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics.
Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria.
Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
These were among the 107 food imports from China that the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more [...]

We’re not just losing their hearts and minds, we’re losing our hearts and minds.

An interesting post over at The Moderate Voice caught my attention today. It’s about the scars that war leaves behind…the scars that nobody can see.
From Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés:
You hear it a lot: Men and women soldiers went to war. When they came home, they would not often speak of what they’d done and seen.
Many [...]

Sometimes when writing a posting, one knows in advance that it may be controversial and has the potential to be met with anger…and sometimes that leads one to decide against ever publishing it. Other times, despite the probabilities, one pushes ahead and publishes such words because one believes they need to be spoken regardless. This [...]

Let’s be honest, it’s hard to toe the Republican party line on the WoT and not run into credibility problems. We can say we’re innocents, but we’re also not making any sort of dent in the proliferation of terrorism. Case in point, terrorism has gone up after 9/11. So what now?
I’m sure Rudy’s well aware [...]

Dems are divided, but they weren’t going to get their bill passed anyway, and we can’t just defund the war. If you want a losing political strategy, that’s it. At least we’re getting some benchmarks in there so we can move forward with getting Iraq ready. Then hopefully the next time this funding bill comes [...]