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Gatekeeper @ May 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The kind of base, junior-high, mean-spirited discourse we’ve grown to expect on Internet bulletin boards and blogs has now been “elevated,” or perhaps I should say “mainstreamed,” or “endorsed” by the President of the United States. After the Clinton-Lewinsky escapades,…
Gatekeeper @ April 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Democrats want to portray Mr. Coleman as a sore loser and make the Republican worry that he will ruin his chances for other political office. But Mr. Coleman has a legitimate grievance that not all votes have been treated equally.…
Gatekeeper @ February 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It’s Friday the 13th and the trillion-dollar trick is on you and your children and your children’s children. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned of what might lurk amid the 1,000-plus-page, late-night concoction, which the House passed 246-183 with…
Gatekeeper @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
From the Columbus Dispatch …
An Ohio state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on “Joe the Plumber” were more extensive than it first acknowledged.
Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family…
Gatekeeper @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
From FOXNews.com reporter Bill Sammon …
Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a…
Gatekeeper @ October 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Conventional Wisdom: Senator John McCain is going negative against Senator Barack Obama because he is lagging in the polls, and his accusations are old news and irrelevant.
The Truth: John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin may be lagging in the polls,…
Gatekeeper @ April 23, 2008 # One Comment
Conventional Wisdom: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton “acknowledged she misspoke” when describing a trip she made to Bosnia during her husband Bill Clinton’s presidency. Video showing a peaceful welcome ceremony for Mrs. Clinton in which she was greeted by an 8-year-old girl…