This Week: Feral Tenure

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Tues | JULY 8 Mental revenge.
Wed | JULY 9 Jesse Jackson mumbles something about cutting Barack Obama’s nuts off into an open Fox News microphone, resulting in a minor scandal and an automatic offer of an auxiliary anchor position on the Fox affiliate of his choice. Jackson later [...]

Karl Rove tries his hand at defining Obama:
“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
And chief McCain strategist Charlie Black [...]

Yes, it’s true: the big day is finally here and at its 5 p.m. meeting Long Beach City Council will finally consider the first of two audits of Long Beach Museum of Art. (The second audit comes next month.)

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When will this be over?

If you think you like Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president better than his Democratic alternative, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), now’s the time for you to prove it.
Well, Wednesday actually. As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins tells us this morning, the Vault 350 will host the “Barack the Vote Concert & Fundraiser” that night, featuring ex-Booker [...]

A lot of air time is being dedicated to Obama’s “bitter” comments, but it looks like everyone (except Taegan Goddard over at Political Wire) forgot about this:
“If [Republicans] could cut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, middle-class Americans would see fewer benefits from their tax dollars, feel more resentful paying taxes, and become [...]

Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago today. How far have we come? Well, our next president may be African-American! Then again, we still have Pat…
On March 18th Barack Obama delivered a major speech on race, religion and politics. Pat Buchanan was quick to respond on his website, and [...]

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The other day, my Ghetto Self (28-year resident of the North LBC, government cheese eater, third-world refugee) sat down with my Educated Self (two graduate degrees, former legislative aide, now university instructor) to talk Obama, Hillary, and Shakespeare.
Ghetto Self: Thanks for making time, cuz. Glad to see your edumacation ain’t made you [...]