California Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) has resigned after the family values politician talked into a mike he didn’t know was hot as he talked about his hot affairs with two women. Here’s a TV report that helped break and spread the story:

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Here is the video of President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren — the speech that caused some conservative Republican parents to yank their kids from school, others to forbid their schools to show it to them, and districts in several states to either not offer it or make it strictly optional. Judge for yourself: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Do you think this generation of children can recover from this speech which critics said...

Former first lady Laura Bush has lamented excessive partisanship and defended President Barack Obama in an interview with CNN that will probably cause her to be labeled a RINO who just doesn’t get in some parts of the talk radio political culture. In fact, in the interview she shows that she not only does get it but is quite astute politically about the trending in Washington. She also provides an insight into one of the factors that perhaps caused her husband to adopt his own criticized political...

THIS JUST IN!!! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich must really be a socialist, a RINO, a liberal Democrat, or a Maoist. the reason: he has praised Barack Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolkids, in one of his Twitters: http://bit.ly/HQNSW RT @newtgingrich: Just read President Obamas speech to students. It is a good speech & will be good for students to hear. Another person who has been presenting himself as a Republican now also shows signs that he must really be a Marxist, a Mao worshipper,...

Our political Quote of the Day comes from Democratic activist Joe Trippi on CNN’s State of the Union with John King: “They’re going to keep gunning,” Democratic strategist Joe Trippi said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to conservatives’ recent — and ultimately successful efforts — to target Obama’s green jobs adviser Van Jones over controversial comments he made before becoming a part of Obama’s White House team. “This administration has the potential to be...

White House environmental adviser Van Jones has now resigned in the latest installment of the nearly frenzied partisan skirmish between the Obama administration and political foes who are clearly battling it and Barack Obama himself every centimeter of the way. But can this one be blamed on the administration’s foes — or on poor, incredibly amateurish vetting by an administration which needs to grasp how 21st century politics operates or be prepared to see its clout and efficacy shrink...

Yes, here is proof that not all Republicans buy into or are part of the talk radio political culture. The AP reports: Republican Gov. Gary Herbert supports President Barack Obama’s plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation’s students on Tuesday, saying he sees “nothing but good coming out of this.” Herbert said he favors letting students listen to the speech, and he thinks it will foster a dialogue between parents and their children. “I think it’s...

Our political Quote of the Day comes from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the furor over President Barack Obama’s upcoming speech to school kids, as conservatives around the country are calling districts and demanding that their kids not be forced to sit through what some of them are calling socialistic political indoctrination: “I think we’ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can’t tell kids in school to study hard...

A lot of websites and blogs including this one have run stories and blog posts about President Barack Obama going south in the polls. But is that already outdated? Gallup sees him on the upswing. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of impact the latest broo-ha-ha has on Obama’s ratings. Will it peel off some more of his independent voter and Republican support? Or will it have the opposite impact: turn off some voters who might be getting tired of watching to angry 24/7 outrage, even...

Our political Quote of the Day comes from Time’s Joe Klein, who attended a health care reform town hall in Arkansas and asks the question I’ve asked here at TMV many times: just where is America’s accelerating trend towards political ugliness headed? Klein expresses shock at the number of people at the meeting who were convinced that President Barack Obama is a communist — he talked to one woman who insisted there were four Communists in the administration (she is a talk...

Here’s yet another item about something weird showing up in a product that isn’t the best P.R. for a corporation, via AFP: A Florida man who cracked open an ice cold can of Pepsi found dismembered remains of a frog, the US Food and Drug Administration said today. “It has been verified, and it was indeed a frog,” Charles Watson, a spokesman at the US food inspection authority, said from Florida, noting that the animal had been identified by an FDA lab. Fred DeNegri of Ormond...

A TV milestone: PBS’s Reading Rainbow is coming to an end due to not just funding but a change in philosophy: Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children’s show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. The show, which started in 1983, was hosted by actor LeVar Burton. (If you don’t know Burton from Reading Rainbow, he’s also famous for his role as...

It wouldn’t be news if someone on one side of the debate gave some on the other side other the finger at a healthcare reform meeting. But it IS news it someone bites off someone else’s finger. KTLA reports: - A 65-year-old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday evening at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff’s investigators were called to Hillcrest and Lynn Road at 7:26 p.m. About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org...

Our political Quote of the Day comes from Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball’s guest columnist Alan I. Abramowitz who notes that Obama is holding onto the base that got him elected: Despite the grumbling on the left, however, there is little evidence thus far of erosion in support for the president among the groups that comprised his electoral base in the last election. [Gallup poll] results indicate that the president continues to enjoy strong support among African-Americans, Democrats, liberals,...

Sometimes its happenstance…other times its due to an incredible lack of judgment and bad taste LIKE THIS.

Go to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. h/T Hinessight, “The anti-Drudge”

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s image problems are about to get even harder. She is about to the pitchforked into the national headlines again due to an up and coming article in Vanity Fair that will contain an interview with Levi Johnston where he’ll give his version of what it was like to see Palin behind the scenes at home. His version isn’t pretty: he paints a portrait of a Palin who thinks she was the one running for President, who felt the Governor’s job was too...

President Barack Obama has now hit a major danger zone: a new CNN poll finds that more independent voters disapprove of Obama than approve of him — and his biggest failing grades are on the economy, taxes, the budget and health care: A majority of independent voters disapprove of how Barack Obama’s handling his job as president, according to a new national poll. Fifty-three percent of independents questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say they disapprove...

Here’s yet another sign of the cheapening and gradual decline of America’s news media’s values — as checkbook journalism becomes the order of the day for some, and key players in a big news story now make it known that they be demanding bigger bucks if they open their mouths in the future. The LA Times has this: At week’s end, the Antioch street where Jaycee Lee Dugard lived after she was allegedly kidnapped as a child 18 years ago by Phillip and Nancy Garrido was swarming...

Our linkfest taking you to sites with varying opinions. Is Jenna Bush Being Treated Like Royalty? There were some rumblings about how GWB daughter Jenna Bush is being treated like royalty after she got a non-political gig on ABC’s Good Morning America. But as Jules Crittenden points out here such criticism often seems to downplay or ignore the role of the Kennedys as seeming American royalty. Pointing to the Bush political and cultural dynasty without noting the Kennedy political and cultural...

Poland and Germany mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II:

The toxic and putrid combination of early 21st century hate/demonization politics and the language of outright violence continues to escalate: Parishioners leaving the Faithful Word Baptist Church in the East Valley Sunday carried not just their Bibles, but guns as well. Pastor Steven Anderson said he and his congregation have received death threats after a controversial sermon earlier this month. “Guns are a great deterrent,” said Anderson. “We haven’t had any violence...

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