I have read on the internets that the American Idol finale is tomorrow night. Tonight is the results from the Democratic primaries in Oregon and Kentucky. If you have been following the results from Idol more than the results for one of the most critical presidential elections in 100 years, then you are retarded. If [...]
“The World is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” -Horace Walpole
It is our belief that Theodore Roosevelt is the finest man ever to serve in the Executive Office Of The President since the dawn of the Republic. Yet our favorite has always been Richard M. Nixon. We say that merely as the villain that you love but hate. Yet the Presidency of Nixon is instructive [...]
Taegan Goddard just had a note come across that West Virginian Senator Robert Byrd has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Now if that is not a come to Jesus moment, having a former Klansman endorse a black man for President I don’t know what is. Now some mock the overly hope-y nature of the Obama [...]
Fellow Roger Blog Series founding father Jolemite furthered our commitment to total coverage of the Democratic Presidential primary by putting himself in the middle of 75,000 of his fellow Portlanders along the Willamette River for Barack Obama’s rally there yesterday. Such turnout has us feeling that Oregon will be Obama’s response to Clinton’s West Virginia [...]
The political season is in full swing, and this season is one that stands out already as one for the books. Politics and history are the twin passions of The Sunshine Empire, so in the vein of our All Time Top Tens, we would like to present The Sunshine Empire Political Reader. Our top ten [...]
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” -Sir Winston Churchill (Former Prime Minister of Great Britain)
I’m often fond of saying that I do not live in the South, I live in Florida. Yet I am by all accounts southern by heritage. With sweet tea, saying y’all and all that is needed for southern street cred, I understand the south. After Richard Nixon’s political “southern strategy” the south went from uniformly [...]
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