TPM Reader DN is thinks there might be a Kwame surge …
Has there ever been a two-time winner?
That’s why I am pulling for our local pride and joy, Kwame Kilpatrick, in the Local Venue category. Based upon the vote results, which I have been (pathetically) monitoring, it appears that there is some Kwamentum. He is inching closer and closer to third place in the reader’s poll. Perhaps news that he is working on a book while in prison on probation violations and facing 38 indictments for corruption that, in my opinion, more than rivals the Bell, CA scandal will help his cause:
Here’s a piece on the book.
My favorite part is the book title:
“Surrendered: The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick”
Kentucky’s new ‘Creationist Theme Park’ gets preliminary okay for state tax incentives/subsidies.
I actually was brainstorming about a possible title when I came up with ‘Ark Park’. But actually, as I read the piece, I see that the actual name if Ark Encounter.
I’m not feeling that either of these really resonate for me. Anyone else have good ideas? Six Flags something, somethingLand? Whaddya got?
Late Update: Okay, we’ve got some pretty funny and pretty silly suggestions so far. But I have to say I think TPM Reader JA is the winner so far with ‘Park of the Covenant’.
Our Brian Beutler looks at the top five winners and top five losers of the lame duck session of the 111th Congress.
Just in time for Christmas our Ryan Reilly reviews America’s War on Christianity, by Brad O’Leary and just published by World Net Daily Books.
Remembering the biggest battles in this year’s War on Christmas (WOC).
Vice President Biden says gay marriage “an inevitability.” Watch.
Folks, for all of you who celebrate, we wish you a Merry Christmas.
From Michael Memoli, writing in the LA Times …
Reporting from Honolulu — [Former U.S. Rep.] Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama’s parents when the future president was born here in 1961, and he has been aggravated by the so-called birther movement, which alleges Obama was not born in the United States and thus should be expelled from office.
Now Abercrombie has an office of his own — he became governor of Hawaii on Dec. 6. — and he intends to do something about it.
What, exactly, is unclear. But in an interview this week at the state Capitol, he left little doubt that torpedoing the conspiracy theorists was a priority.
“What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons,” said Abercrombie, 72. “Maybe I’m the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, ‘I was here when that baby was born.’ “
Read the rest here.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) warns of “apocalyptic pain” if the federal government doesn’t cut spending.