1980s

Ah, good times:

National Debt Clock Goes Dark–or Is It Just Snooze?
September 10, 2000 in print edition C-6

It was a sign of the times. And so, too, is its demise.

Gail Collins at The New York Times shares some of her own past associations with Charles Keating, Bernardine Dohrn, and Senator Joseph Lieberman.  Surely, she must have been behind the past and present ills of our society in the

The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman

A couple of recent news stories elsewhere have reminded me of major stories I covered locally in the past. All the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider reminded me that in the late 1980s, not long after I'd started working here, a site in Bedford and Rutherford counties was on the short list for the Superconducting Super Collider. ...

Remember when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin’s so-called energy expertise as an asset? Remember when he said she “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America”?

Ah, good times, good times.

I’m traveling today so I’m taking the liberty of simply cutting and pasting the text of an email I got from my good friend Fred Thompson.  Actually, I’ve never met the man, it just sounds cool to say it like that since he emailed me personally and all.  FDT writes a regular column at TownHall and this was his from a day or so ago.

Matthew Hurtt remembers the Senator’s historic vote for Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey:

All eyes were on Kurita. Why? What was her motivation? Had she betrayed her party? …

Just as Flying Saucer had their 80's night yesterday, so William Howard Hobbs with the TN Republican party thinks its the 1980s all over again, John McCain is Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama is Mondale/Dukakis/Carter/McGover, and Putin is...Chernenko?

No sense candycoating it, I guess; the rich want "those homeless" gone, and apparently conditions, policies and decisions favoring the rich over the poor in this country over the past decade have emboldened the wealthy enough to now just come right out and say it.....