From Think Progress: “A citizen has a constitutionally protected right to participate in elections on an equal basis with other citizens in the jurisdiction.” In Ohio, that right to participate equally has been abridged by Ohio Revised Code ‘ 3509.03 and the Ohio Secretary of State’s further interpretation of that statute with regard to in-person […]
Right now Drudge is pushing this: From the link: In a last-minute change of plans, Mitt Romney will head to visit storm-affected areas in New Orleans today, skipping a previously scheduled joint rally with running mate Paul Ryan in the battleground state of Virginia this afternoon. A Romney aide told ABC News that Romney will […]
The Grand Old Pale club finally had their convention start yesterday. While the media was all over the speeches, one thing that you won’t really see covered much is something that happened on the floor: Two people were removed from the Republican National Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-American CNN camera operator […]
Bobby Jindal, the man who became famous by blasting federal spending on disasters, is begging President Obama for more money: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is asking President Barack Obama for more federal help as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches the Gulf Coast, urging him to reimburse Louisiana for the full cost of its preparations. “Given the […]
Hurricane Isaac is set to hit the Gulf late tonight, early Wednesday morning. With that we have the GOP at a category five stage of hot air, trying to blame President Obama for everything. First off we have the Republican leader and king of all conspiracy theories, Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that Obama had the Weather […]
Herman Cain is still out there making unfounded claims: Herman Cain offered his take Monday on a recent poll showing that 0 percent of African-American voters support Romney. “[Black voters] are closet conservatives, but the polls aren’t going to pick it up,” Cain said on Fox News. “You may have heard about the Wall Street […]
Hurricane Isaac is on target to Florida starting tomorrow night. Currently the storm is off the coast of Cuba, but being over open, warm water means that Isaac has the fuel it needs to gain strength. As we know the Republican convention starts in Tampa this week. There has already been talk in the media […]
Byron York has a blog post up which must be one of the most idiotic things I have read in a long time: Byron York: Voters fret about economy, Dems focus on abortion “This election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment,” says former President Bill Clinton […]
Apparently Oklahoma City schools have a rule dating back to 2005 that prevents students from wearing shirts that don’t support the state’s collegiate teams: Cooper Barton, 5, comes from a family of Michigan fans. He went to school wearing a maize and blue shirt with “The Big House,” the nickname for Michigan’s 114,000-seat stadium, written […]
This weekend Missouri Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), make big news when he declared women could shut off their bodies from getting pregnant during a “legitimate rape”. Since then we have seen troves of big names in the GOP come out and denounce the comments, including the head of the RNC, Mitt Romney and […]