Cuba had 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Gustav and is currently being battered once again by Hurricane Ike. Our Goverment's response was to offer them $100,000 in aid through relief agencies. Yes, you read that right... $100,000. Cuba turned down our most excellent offer. Damn ingrates!

Condi, bless her heart, believes that we cannot at this time justify raising the embargo. Read more…

From tomorrow's NYT:

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election. Read more…