http://donkeydigest.com Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:27:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Facebook thread started innocently enough... I guess: OK, I'm just throwing this one out there and see what comes back...maybe Steve is too busy on his honeymoon but let me see who else will respond. Can someone give me a definition of what it means to live a conservative life? ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/10/facebook-politics/ I'm not much a movie goer these days.  Not only are the tickets just too expensive, the cost of hiring a babysitter for my wife and I to go out is often cost prohibitive.  We sometimes sneak off individually to catch a flick but we really prefer going together so ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/05/my-star-trek-experience/ Torture is bad. Let’s get that straight, immediately and clearly. But the issues created by its use in the Bush administration are exceedingly murky to anyone not on the absolutist right or left. Fortunately we now have a president who is doing exactly the right thing when it comes to ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/why-obamas-right-on-torture/ Cheerleading has its place, including on a high school or college basketball court. But not when it comes to political analysis. Over the past couple of weeks, at least three Republicans - House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.), former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and campaign consultant Tony Marsh - have raised ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/can-gop-win-back-the-house-in-2010/ If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments. It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/the-gop-divorced-from-reality/ It wasn’t quite the firing on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. But on April 1, your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and even disband the United States. It was not an April Fool’s joke. In fact, Senate Resolution 632 did a lot more ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/georgia-republicans-believe-they-can-nullify-constitution/ The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe: Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/anti-obama-taxpayer-tea-parties-steeped-in-insanity/ Happy Patriots' Day. April 15 is the one day a year when our country asks something of us -- or at least the vast majority of us. For those who wear a military uniform, those who serve the rest of us as policemen and firefighters and teachers and other public servants, ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/happy-patriots-day/ Beam ’em into the theater, Scotty. About 440 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will get to see the newest Star Trek movie at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on Saturday — about a month before its stateside premiere, Army and Air Force Exchange Service officials announced Friday. The troops will get an extra treat ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/troops-get-peek-at-%e2%80%98star-trek%e2%80%99/ I knew it!  I really DO live in the most Republican district in Georgia! Georgia's 6th Congressional district has a partisan index of +19... and it shows! Charlie Cook notes that Democrats are in a good news/bad news situation heading into the 2010 midterm elections. "The good news for them is that ... http://donkeydigest.com/2009/04/friday-april-10-political-roundup/