Get Justin’s RSS Feed11:27 AM 09/30/2010
Star Wars creator George Lucas has recently completed a thirty-three-year transformation from gifted filmmaker to the dark-side personified. (more)
Justin Duckham - Justin Duckham is a Washington correspondent with the Talk Radio News Service. He was a music journalist in California before making the jump to politics. Justin was a member of UC Merced's founding class and graduated with a degree in History and minors in American Studies and Philosophy. He is the lead singer of the punk rock band Hogfather.
1:16 PM 08/19/2010
In a tweet Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin suggested that Laura Schlessinger may have had her First Amendment rights violated in the controversy surrounding the conservative talk show host’s repeated use of the n-word. (more)
9:14 AM 08/18/2010
With the intention behind the administration’s drawdown date for Afghanistan becoming increasingly hard to pin down, it’s not unreasonable to theorize that the U.S. could have a significant stake in the nation for the remainder of Obama’s presidency. Bearing this in mind, it would be wise to keep the waters as calm as possible. Getting a new defense secretary will not do this. (more)
9:58 AM 07/21/2010
A former San Francisco Chronicle Bureau Chief once described to me phone calls he would receive from irate readers convinced that the editors of all the major American papers were conspiring behind closed doors over the best ways to manipulate public opinion. (more)
10:20 AM 07/15/2010
The right-wing reaction to the NAACP's tea party resolution is not unexpected, but is nevertheless a misfire. (more)
12:59 PM 07/12/2010
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could thrive in the top spot at the RNC, but it would be at the expense of her political soul. (more)
12:00 AM 04/15/2010
President Barack Obama has projected a solemn demeanor over the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 95 others, but his actions in the immediate hours after the news broke paint a less reverent picture. (more)
12:00 AM 03/11/2010
Joe Biden was tapped as vice president with the role of attack dog in mind. That was one of the less explosive revelations from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Game Change.” As the nation will recall, the then-senator took his duty in an ironic direction. Yes, he was an attack dog of sorts, but the only leg he sank his teeth into was that of his running mate. (more)
