GOP Vixen

Veepapalooza is over!

After beating that kid with the stage dad from hell by 12 million votes with 97.5 million votes cast in the "American Idol" final, David Cook has surely secured his place as McCain's long-awaited running mate, right?

Belly up to the Arizona barbecue...

It’s time for Kuwait to liberate itself

I’ve had Kuwait’s back ever since I was 15 years old. Bad boy Saddam Hussein had just invaded Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor, and before too long the Gulf War was on. Promptly, my high school campus turned into an emirate lovefest: We scribbled “Free Kuwait!” (and, er, “Saddam Sucks!”) on our book covers and binders, and some enterprising students even printed buttons for our backpacks. Since expanding my horizons past the point of rudimentary 10th-grade knapsack foreign-policy advocacy, I’ve still always supported the decision to liberate Kuwait. Now if only Kuwait would liberate itself.

Read my column about last weekend’s disappointing parliamentary vote in the wee Gulf nation…

Bridget the Editorial Sadomasochist

Or at least that’s how I sound in this interview I gave for a profile in Nielson Business Media: “To be in this business, you have to just love the news to the point where you don’t mind working weekends, holidays, nights, overtime; and you don’t mind dropping everything when a story happens. … You have to be the person who will do the editorial equivalent of walking to school three miles in the snow barefoot. You have to put the news and the newsroom first.”

Incidentally, I didn’t remember too much what I’d said in the interview because I’d just come off of working many many days straight and spoke with the reporter while still in PJs (which lends immense credence to my weekly gig at Pajamas Media) and fuzzy socks, bleary eyed and wondering how much Diet Coke it would take to arrive at a semiconscious state…

Chatting with Vitali Klitschko about his mayoral fight

Former WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is running for mayor of Kiev, and the May 25 vote is swiftly approaching! I recently got a one-on-one interview with the boxer from the campaign trail, and wrote about it in my Los Angeles Daily News column. I have a feeling GOP-V readers will find him to be much more than a pugilist — having grown up in the Soviet Union, he’s committed to bringing real democracy sans corruption to the Ukraine, and his model is the West: “I see the life standards in the U.S. and what we have to bring here to Ukraine People want to be part of the modern world. It’s one point to speak, another point to be.”

Or for a snapshot of Klitschko’s quotes and a poll on his chances for victory, click on over to my *NEW* (shameless plug alert!) World News site at About.com.