I’ve posted this before, but with the election only two weeks away I have to post it again.
“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have had only four non-family heros in my life and one of them is former President Theodore Roosevelt. Only one other picture sits on my desk aside from my family and The Joker, and that is of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt began his life as a [...]
As I mentioned The Sunshine Empire crossed the 1000 post threshold yesterday. I have often spoken about my political prognostications and the brilliant things I have predicted that have come true. Yet I have been way off at times too. I was looking back to a month after I began writing at [...]
Watching the discussion of the nasty turn in the race on Meet the Press a good point has been brought up. During the Vice-Presidential debate Governor Sarah Palin deflected the Bush-McCain comparison by awkwardly throwing out the “there you go again” Reagan impression and saying that Obama and Biden just wanted to talk about [...]
I found it richly ironic that our favorite McCain economist, Douglas Holtz-Eakin declared that John McCain invented the Blackberry. Now you may say that in fact Holtz-Eakin did not in fact say that but did say that McCain championed legislation that paved the way for certain innovations. The political double standards that have [...]
“So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960’s, part of the drama was the fact that you didn’t know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. ”
-Michael Beschloss [...]
“One of my movies was called “True Lies.” It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.”
-Arnold Schwarzenegger (At the 2004 Republican National Convention)
Hurricane Gustav is approaching New Orleans, and a good friend of The Sunshine Empire is going to ride the storm out. A former member of our brain-trust, who is responsible for many of the features of this site that have been added during it’s initial construction, returned to his hometown of New Orleans some [...]
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