The Sunshine Empire

The operative mode of the McCain campaign this week has been to mock the press as lovesick schoolgirls due to their lavish coverage of Senator Obama’s trip to the middle east and Europe.  One thing that should be said is that they invited it on themselves.  For weeks after his last trip to the middle [...]

I was reading tonight that a sports collectibles dealer has offered the legendary Steve Bartman $25,000 to appear at a signing convention. Steve Bartman is well known in the Chicagoland area as a scapegoat for the failure of the 2003 Chicago Cubs. He is routinely used as a whipping boy for the stealing of the [...]

I’m just reading that Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been captured and I am glad for that.  By all accounts he had a hand in one of the worst cases of genocide in Europe since World War II.  But it brings to mind an article I read on the BBC that told of [...]

The conservative approach to battling the rock star following for Senator Barack Obama has been hap-hazard, and contradictory to the point of absurdity.  Initially, many conservatives began the email whispering campaign insisting that Obama was a secret Muslim.  An Islamic Maxwell Smart if you will.  They stated that since he had an Islamic sounding middle [...]

“If they were to say leave, we would leave.” -George W. Bush referring to the situation in Iraq, on May 24th 2007. Well, seems they’ve said just that. Iraqi PM Backs Obama Troop Exit Plan One thing to keep in mind.  The improving situation in Iraq is a wonderful thing, but it does not make [...]

Some time ago Senator McCain made some issue with the fact that Senator Obama had not visited Iraq, so he had no basis for arguing anything.  He had not been able to take a cozy stroll through a Baghdad market (courtesy of hundreds of Marines and helicopters) like he had.  But when Senator Obama planned [...]

Monitoring the leaderboard at Royal Birkdale for the 137th Open Championship it seems that two favorites with roots in The Sunshine Empire are in the top five.  Duval native and mysterious head case David Duval, himself a former British Open champion has come out of the wilderness to find himself tied for fourth after 36 [...]