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Clinton's Candidacy: Good or Bad?

USD Democrats | General | Wednesday March 05, 2008 | By cberry
Tags: election hillary 2008 obama president bananas primary clinton barack
Don't get me wrong-- last night was a good night for Hillary. But its just that-- a night. A snapshot in the bigger context of the primary. How is she really standing? In order to answer this question we'll have to look at the past, present and future. ...

March 4 Drinking Game

USD Democrats | General | Tuesday March 04, 2008 | By cberry
Tags: elections bananas primaries march 4 drinking president
Let's use this thread as a discussion of rules for a drinking game tonight! Suggestions are definitely appreciated and we can improve this a bit. Also check out the cross-post on DailyKos . I have a few ideas, but I think if we put all our heads together...

Research Challenges Bright Line Between Man and Ap...

USD Democrats | General | Tuesday December 04, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: chimpanzee intelligence bananas science
Political blogs are usually focused on so-called "hot-button" issues like immigration, war, and health care. This focus sometimes distracts from other important issues simply because they aren't currently being discussed. one of these...

Free Trade is good... with Principles

USD Democrats | Tetris | Tuesday November 20, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: china economics trade labor environment america bananas free
Matt Hittle, everyone's favorite libertarian, is up to his usual antics with an editorial this week in the Volante professing the greatness of free trade. The main point of his editorial is that free (international) trade benefits all except for a small...

(Re: Iraq) Volante Editorial Disregards Common Sen...

USD Democrats | Tetris | Wednesday November 07, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: iraq tim carr war volante bananas
What's up with the Volante?  It seems like every week they dedicate space on their Opinion page to kool-aid drinking Republicans.  This week?  An absurd assertion that leaving Iraq is worse than staying because it "will" result in...

Why the Bible Shouldn't Dictate Our Laws

USD Democrats | Tetris | Wednesday October 17, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: church government slavery bananas state bible
I grew up going to Sunday school and learned a lot of great lessons.  My favorite lessons were to love thy neighbor, materialism is bad and forgiveness is better than revenge. That's why I get upset whenever I see the Christian Right movement pulling out...

Hilarious: Stephen Colbert to Run for President

USD Democrats | Tetris | Wednesday October 17, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: bananas colbert 2008 president elections stephen
Stephen Colbert, of Daily Show and Colbert Report fame, has announced that he is running for president last night on his show.  I'm going to HAVE to catch the rerun for that today.  Apparently he is only planning on running in his...

Radiohead Revolution: $1 Album!

USD Democrats | Tetris | Tuesday October 16, 2007 | By cberry
Tags: bananas music radiohead revolution
I know some of you have anxiously been awaiting my next political entry on the USD Dems blog... but I'm going to have to sort of disappoint you for something only quasi political.  Radiohead has a new album out and they are selling it in a REVOLUTIONAIRY...


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