The recent stories about ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — are pretty amazing. Only days after one story showed an ACORN staffer in Baltimore advising a would-be pimp and prostitute about how to prepare their taxes and disguise the nature of their business comes a new story about ACORN staffers [...]
Archive for September 14th, 2009
Bad ACORN
Posted in Politics, tagged ACORN, Politics on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Was Abe Always Honest ?
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I have mentioned before on the blog, one of my goals in retirement is to read a book on each of our presidents. Yesterday I finished a book on Abraham Lincoln and one of the things I learned about “Honest Abe” is that he wasn’t always honest and that politics in his day were not all that [...]
Bad Start
Posted in sports, tagged Brady Quinn, Braylon Edwards, Browns vs. Vikings, Cleveland Browns, sports on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I watched the Browns lose to the Minnesota Vikings yesterday, and in many ways the game captured the futility of the Browns since they returned to the NFL. The Browns played a decent first half — particularly the defense — and led at halftime, 13-10. Even so, there were the normal danger signals. After the [...]
