Posting History for Larry McAwful
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| Breaking: Missouri Supreme Court strikes down voter ID law. | Larry McAwful | 10/16/2006 | 19 | 42 | 1 | 24 |
| Shouldn't those kids be in school, Governor Palin? Every time I see the Palin kids on TV I feel like I'm losing my mind. It's not just because I think their mother could wind up being one of the worst executives in history (though that's certainly ... |
Larry McAwful | 10/12/2008 | 75 | 22 | 1 | 83 |
| Carly Fiorina is running for Senate She's challenging Barbara Boxer. I doubt there'll be much of a primary. You'd normally expect a hot primary in California, since the shambles of the state Republican party are so ideologically ... |
Larry McAwful | 11/04/2009 | 71 | 15 | - | 36 |
| "Paul Revere's Ride" by Sarah Palin So Sarah Palin's summary of Paul Revere's famous ride is making the rounds. No doubt you've seen it: |
Larry McAwful | 06/03/2011 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 207 |
| Why Republicans fear the YouTube debates Last week, CNN and YouTube hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates. It featured questions recorded on film by citizens and played live before the candidates, to which they ... |
Larry McAwful | 08/01/2007 | 11 | 12 | - | 126 |
| My typical white grandmother So there's been a sudden dust-up surrounding Barack Obama's talk about how his white grandmother confessed that she felt jittery whenever a black man walked near her. Some have taken umbrage to how ... |
Larry McAwful | 03/21/2008 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| What happens to Biden's seat? I'll preface this by saying that I'm very pleased that Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate, and that Biden had been one of my top preferences until he became my utterly top preference a ... |
Larry McAwful | 08/23/2008 | 39 | 10 | 1 | 7 |
| My letter to Senator David Vitter (R-LA) Senator David Vitter of Louisiana just had a second madam, this time one in New Orleans, claim him as one of her clients. This madam, Jeanette Maier, went public not to humiliate Vitter but to rail ... |
Larry McAwful | 07/12/2007 | 8 | 9 | - | 3 |
| Bush's "Nazi appeaser" was a Republican. We all heard Bush say that "an American senator" said he could have stopped Hitler from invading Poland, if only he'd been able to talk to him first. But Bush didn't name the guy, making it tough ... |
Larry McAwful | 05/15/2008 | 21 | 9 | - | 18 |
| Henry Kissinger is advising Bush on Iraq. | Larry McAwful | 09/29/2006 | 33 | 8 | - | 7 |
| MA-Gov: Kerry Healey opposes the U.S. Constitution | Larry McAwful | 10/15/2006 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| Time Magazine's case for teaching the Bible Yep, Time Magazine has made its case for the value of teaching the Bible in public schools. Their point is that ... |
Larry McAwful | 06/12/2007 | 44 | 8 | - | 5 |
| Horse-trading advantage for Obama It looks like the Obama's gaining ground in the second-place race. While Edwards generally leads as the favorite second-choice candidate for Iowa caucusgoers, Obama's been picking up ... |
Larry McAwful | 01/03/2008 | 39 | 8 | - | - |
| Politics, gay marriage and the English language In today's "Cheers and Jeers" post, Bill in Portland Maine presented us today with the text of the ... |
Larry McAwful | 11/03/2009 | 24 | 8 | - | 35 |
| Bumper sticker and lawn sign report If you ask pretty much anybody if bumper stickers and lawn signs sway their opinions of a candidate, they'll probably say no. I would. And maybe that's accurate.
At the very least, no one is ... |
Larry McAwful | 09/06/2008 | 61 | 7 | - | 3 |
| Presidential bumper stickers. Last month I drove from Boston to southern New Jersey to Cape Cod and back to Boston on an extended weekend. Along these mostly blue stretches of highway, I saw a number of bumper stickers that ... |
Larry McAwful | 09/08/2007 | 23 | 6 | - | 34 |
| Support John McCain! Win valuable prizes! Apparently if you copy and past pro-McCain messages on message boards around the internet, you can earn yourself "McCain points" which you can redeem for great McCain merchandise and even a chance ... |
Larry McAwful | 08/07/2008 | 19 | 6 | - | 6 |
| Supreme Court stops GOP redistricting in Colorado The Colorado Republicans have appealed to the Supreme Court to allow them to put in place a redistricting map they came up with in 2003. However, since a Democratic state judge had already created ... |
Larry McAwful | 03/05/2007 | 3 | 5 | - | 9 |
| Watching September 11: 2001 through 2003. I was in the World Trade Center's underground plaza half an hour before the first plane hit. My train came in from New Jersey at that stop. I was in the office fifteen minutes before the first ... |
Larry McAwful | 09/11/2007 | 7 | 5 | - | 10 |
| The presidency is not an "all boys' club" Sure, all 42 of the people who have sat in the Oval Office have been men. And sure, this is the first time we've had a female in the running who might actually win a major party's nomination (... |
Larry McAwful | 11/05/2007 | 116 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Away in a WalMart Here's a Christmas song I wrote a couple of years ago. I wrote the words, but not the music. But you can probably figure that out.
Let's remember those less fortunate than us this Christmas ... |
Larry McAwful | 12/21/2007 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Clinton backers who won't back Obama: what's to worry? There's a lot of talk about whether the Hillary Clinton supporters are going to back Barack Obama by sufficient numbers. Polls seem to show they've already moved to back Obama by anywhere from 50% ... |
Larry McAwful | 08/24/2008 | 50 | 5 | - | - |
| Burn the Koran—to disk! With all this talk about people burning Korans today, whether it be Reverend Jones down in Florida or one of his crackpot copycats, I've been bitten by the bug. In order to make up for any Korans ... |
Larry McAwful | 09/11/2010 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 30 |
| Polish joke: Missile defense shield in eastern Europe Growing up with my grandfather's Polish last name in America in the 1970s had its stresses. Those of you who were around back then might remember that Polish jokes were very much in vogue. I can't ... |
Larry McAwful | 06/08/2007 | 25 | 4 | - | - |
| Poll: Having a beer with a candidate. You often hear people say that voters will go for a candidate whom they'd like to have a beer with for some reason, and that's the way they'll wind up voting. In 2004, slightly more voters seemed ... |
Larry McAwful | 01/01/2008 | 21 | 4 | - | - |
| Delegate count: Obama leads in New Hampshire? Okay, I'll pull no punches and I'll come right out and make it clear that I am not nor ever have been a Hillary Clinton supporter, fancier or even much of a tolerater of her. However, the TV told ... |
Larry McAwful | 01/08/2008 | 14 | 3 | - | - |
| Romney's out. So what does that mean for the Democrats? As we all know by now, Willard "Mitt" Romney dropped out of the presidential race today because he wanted to make sure the leading Republican got a clear shot at keeping the White House in the ... |
Larry McAwful | 02/07/2008 | 18 | 3 | - | 1 |
| The first post-identity politics and post-Boomer election We had a black candidate and a female candidate running, both as serious contenders, but the voters for the most part didn't fall back on identity politics. Obama, as part of the post-Baby Boom ... |
Larry McAwful | 05/17/2008 | 58 | 3 | - | 2 |
| Who's the conservative scapegoat after San Francisco? Time was when John Birch Society-type conservatives wanted to demonize the political left, they zeroed in on Berkeley, California—but that wild college town ... |
Larry McAwful | 05/21/2008 | 86 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Fun, fun, fun 'till Jim Baker called the army away! (song parody) | Larry McAwful | 10/18/2006 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| (OH-19) Alex P. Keaton on stem cell research | Larry McAwful | 10/28/2006 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 19 |
| I just woke up after a year of sleep! I feel a little stiff, but refreshed. I took three Tylenol PMs instead of two. Better not do that again. Those things are strong.
The first thing I did, before picking up a newspaper or ... |
Larry McAwful | 02/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | 6 |
| Why bother voting? Often you hear people complain that it's not worth voting, that because of the Electoral College, my vote won't make a difference. While it's true that your vote probably won't alter the way your ... |
Larry McAwful | 10/29/2008 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| WMDs found in Iraq: terrorists and their chemical weapons! The chemical weapons used by terrorists in Iraq are, specifically, chlorine gas bombs. Granted, these chlorine gas bombs are made from chlorine brought by USUK occupation forces to purify the water, |
Larry McAwful | 03/17/2007 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Gonzales hearing "delayed" until April 17? What the hell is this? An AP article reports that Alberto Gonzales's hearing has ... |
Larry McAwful | 04/06/2007 | 20 | 1 | - | - |
| Mike Bloomberg leaves the Republican Party So it's official: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has left the Republican Party . |
Larry McAwful | 06/19/2007 | 11 | 1 | - | 41 |
| Why fire Imus? I admit that I've never been a Don Imus fan. I've long been aware of him, but I've never actually listened to his show. All of what I know about him comes from reports from others, or stories I've ... |
Larry McAwful | 04/14/2007 | 49 | - | - | - |