New York Times’ Conservative columnist Ross Douthat, in a disrespectful and sleezily titled, “Justices Gone Wild” column today, does what Conservatives do: narrows issues down to easily-(mis)understood one-dimensional sound bites that are just plain ignorant and, well, just plain wrong.
Let’s get a few facts out of the way first. Conservatives love to bitch and moan [...]
Center for Individual Freedom Uses Extreme Right-Wing Group “Human Events” To Slam Democratic Speaker Pelosi
Today, the following email was sent to me by the Human Events, “Headquarters of the conservative underground”, on behalf of the Center For Individual Freedom. The email is titled, “Breaking Alert: Did Pelosi Condone Torture and Lie About It?”, and sent [...]
Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth Can Turn A Governor Into An Ass
Barack Obama announced plans Friday to send $1.5 billion to Pakistan every year for the next five years, to build schools and roads and hospitals. That’s $7.5 billion dollars. As far, as we know, the Pakistanis haven’t rejected the funding.
Compare that to [...]
After months of complaining about too few tax cuts for the rich, after weeks of claiming Obama’s budget ”spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much,” after days of trying to blame Democrats and Obama for everything from the AIG bonuses to paling around with Jay Leno, the Republicans Thursday introduced their much-heralded budget.
Calling [...]
The current version of the 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill making its way through Congress as we speak is being attacked by the press, as well as many Democrats and Republicans. But not all. President Obama promised during his campaign to reduce the amount of earmarks to 10% of spending, but the current bill is loaded [...]
Ken ”homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed“ Blackwell, the soon-to-be-failed candidate to chair the Republican National Committee, is a staunch pro-gun advocate. I’m all for the Constitution, and, while I personally don’t believe in having a gun, because they kill people, I believe more in our Constitution, so I respect someone’s right [...]
Two weeks into his presidency, George W. Bush appointed vice-president Dick Cheney to chair the National Energy Policy Development Group. Two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama appointed vice-president Joe Biden to chair the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families. Cheney’s task force was charged with developing “a national energy policy designed to help the [...]
Despite a campaign that crossed two years and several continents, right now it is impossible to grasp the full implications of the election of an African-American to this nation’s highest office. The uninformed and uneducated naysayers, and the fear-sowing right-wing commentators who stoked the fires of hatred and ignorance were wrong: We did know enough [...]
It appears those “liberal” Californians aren’t so liberal. By a current margin of 52% to 48%, Californians voted to overturn their own Supreme Court and amend their constitution to specify that marriage is only between one man and one woman. What does this say about the nature of Californians’ hearts and minds?
Looking at exit poll [...]
With a little luck, and we could use a lot of it right now, four weeks from tonight we will know who will be the next president of these United States. It’s been a long campaign, more than a year, and while, regardless on which horse your money’s riding (assuming you have any left – [...]