Micah Tillman

Yesterday, some friends and us (The Wife and I) got into a discussion about Obama and McCain. I was the lone person who wasn’t going to be voting for Obama. They asked why.
Rush Limbaugh said it well:
It’s like the Super Bowl . . . . If your team isn’t in it, you root for the [...]

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Intriguing.
Read the story here.
(h/t Lopez)

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“Can the Candidates Answer Politics’ Most Important Question?” at The Free Liberal
“‘Acts of God’ in the US” at Sight Magazine

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Just finished commenting on John McCain’s speech to the NFIB (over at the WEeding Awards) and while doing so I made an amazing discovery.
Politicians never cease to surprise.
UPDATE Comments on the first Obama piece and the Rush Limbaugh piece are finished now, too.

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It’s not finished yet, but here are the winners, at least:
Speech to NFIB Summit, by John McCain
(More) Remarks on Retirement Security, by Barack Obama
“Drill Here! Drill Now! Pay Less!,” by Rush Limbaugh
“Tax Relief for the Middle Class,” by Barack Obama
“Hail the Male,” an Interview with Kathleen Parker (conducted by Kathryn Jean Lopez), NRO

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Ever watch one of the Sunday politics shows on CBS, CNN, NBC, etc.? I was listening to one yesterday (C-SPAN radio rebroadcasts most of them on Sundays), while washing dishes, on which Gov. Tim (Kaine-Obama) and Gov. Tim (Pawlenty-McCain) were having one of those arguments that aren’t arguments:
A: I think X has skills.
B: No. Clearly [...]

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From the Prologue:
A new format this week leads to a more-amusing read, if I do say so myself. I have interspersed my commentary with the quotations for each WEedy article, to delightful effect.
As always, the writers whose works are honored come from both sides of the political aisle. Volume 5 begins and ends with pieces [...]

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Jonah Goldberg is right: McCain should pick a Democrat (or ex-Dem like Lieberman) as his VP.
Evidently Goldberg’s article didn’t make Rush too happy. But Rush himself was making the same kind of argument before he came up with Operation Chaos. If you’ll remember, I wrote a little article on the subject in early March:
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I’ve got a new article up at The Free Liberal. You can read it here.

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I’ve got a new article up at The Free Liberal. You can read it here.

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