With Bush banished and the new era of Obama-love descending deus ex Chicago machinus, interesting to see this is manifest even in Alaska --- with the news that a raging fire that police believe might have been set by an arsonist has badly damaged the church attended by Alaska governor and Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, causing about one million dollars in damage. Can yo...

GOP "RINO" or in Reality Democrat Colin Powell Powell: GOP 'polarization' backfired in election (CNN) — The Republican party must stop "shouting at the world" and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday. (in other words become Democrats) In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria ...

 It seems that the Scottish National Party has moved firmly on to Republican Sinn Fein territory in its doomed attempt to eradicate Britishness and break up the United Kingdom.  A draft census questionnaire for Scotland for the 2011 count is aiming to firmly detach Scottish identity from that of its wider British counterpart.  The cynical 'hoots mon, where's me troosers?&#...

Colin Powell, who endorsed Barack Hussein Obama despite supposedly being a Republican, has now turned his fire on Rush Limbaugh. He feels that Limbaugh "appeals to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts".  "Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?" he asks.  In the words of his new chum, Obama: "yes, we can" - by logging on here. Listen and learn, people. Listen and lea...

It's pretty fair to say that class, or at least an analysis of the world which sees class as the main force governing society, is pretty fundamental to my politics. But a certain article in the media has really got my back up, and my view on this are well known. In echoes of Republican strategies in the states, people who don't fall into the hard right or hard left brackets within Labour...

Danny Kennedy MLA, the Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said today that the new alliance between the Ulster Unionist party and the Conservative Party was the first serious challenge to the Sinn Fein agenda whereas the DUP had simply rolled over for Sinn Fein, presenting them with no obstacle whatsoever in their drive to impose their narrow republican and second-hand and second-rate marx...

The fight over US government aid to the car industry was focused on Mitch McConnell, the leader of Republican forces in the Senate, who defied the Bush administration by rejecting a deal to extend a $14bn loan to Detroit

First in seventeenth-century England then in the eighteenth-century France that looked to that precedent (and after which, the rest really is history), gentry-cum-mercantile republican absolutism was simply an inversion of princely absolutism, an Early Modern aberration originating with Jean Bodin. But what of the creation of a gentry-cum-mercantile republic in the former American Colonies? Did it...

Mike Huckabee’s appearance on The Daily Show to talk about why he is not very “conservative” fiscally, but very conservative morally and socially, as set out in his new book, is as clear an indication as you could possibly want that he is going to be making a very serious play indeed for the Republican nomination in 2012. Economically populist, morally and socially conservative foreign polic...

The Auto Bailout will take place. Some brave Republicans have threatened a filabuster, This from Malkins Blog: Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) announced today that he will work to block the bailout legislation for the Big 3 automakers and the UAW union. As the head of the Republican campaign committee, Ensign knows how badly the Wall Street bailout hurt Republicans in the November elections. Conservativ...