The Krile Files

It is the night of champagne, toasts and old friends. For our home, it will be as usual the past few years, an early toast after some appetizers spaced throughout the evening. We seldom make it all the way to midnight, particularly when we know we’ll be up at an early hour on New Year’s Day for a 10:30 am Cotton Bowl! Peas are soaking so we can put a big pot of Black Eyed Peas and ham on to cook first thing in the morning. It’s a Southern Tradition to guarantee good luck for the year. I’ll try to slide a few posts up this evening and a few more tomorrow afternoon and evening. But, overall, the blogosphere appears to be quieter than usual today.

Polls, Polls & More Polls

We’re down to the wire now, as the Iowa caucus is just a few short days away and the pollsters are reverberating off the charts with a wide variety of results. The latest McClatchy-MSNBC Poll is here to your left. It gives John Edwards a bit of the edge in the Democratic field, as he [...]

Huckabee Signed ‘USA Today’ Ad Backing Idea of Wife as ‘Servant’

Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, in 1988 signed a full-page ad in USA Today backing the idea of the wife in any marriage serving as a “servant” in relation to her husband. Then-Gov. Huckabee was one of 131 signatories on [...]

“We Cannot Recognize Our Country”

“There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country.” The New York Times lead editorial today echoes what millions of Americans must be feeling as this awful year comes to a close. It was year of self recognition, when Americans finally realized America can no longer pretend to be a [...]

And, for good measure, the “quote of the weekend”. And, surprisingly, it’s not from Mike Huckabee!

Thompson: “Not Particularly Interested In Running For President”

…Yesterday several journalists traveling with Thompson wrote stories about a response that Thompson gave to a ‘fire in the belly’ question. According to a transcript of the answer posted on the campaign’s website Saturday night, Thompson’s response included this line, along with a longer explanation about why it is unfair to criticize his desire to president: [...]

Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, thompson