Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States’. They own Citgo. It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. I don’t think anybody can find any evidence that […]
Get ready for the wingnuts to declare war on Iowa: The Iowa Supreme Court this morning struck down a 1998 state law that limits marriage to one man and one woman. The ruling is viewed as a victory for the gay rights movement in Iowa and elsewhere, and a setback for social conservatives who wanted […]
The right wing has been touting out this graphic today as proof that Obama is destroying our government through spending: Now they are saying that Obama is projecting a $1.75 trillion dollar deficit this year. Drudge has had this graphic on top of his blog and even right wing bloggers are on the “apologize to […]
Finally! From Juan Cole: I was told that Warren’s friends among the MPAC Muslim community had urged him to call Melissa Etheridge Friday night in the run-up to their being (serially) on the same stage Saturday night, and that he did so and they talked for half an hour. During his address, Warren mentioned also […]
This is what we have been warning about on the left; that Sarah Palin’s increasingly dangerous rhetoric was putting Obama at danger. Well it looks like the Secret Service also agrees with us: The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties […]
I’m still in catch up mode from being offline all last week, but I have to chime in on this whole Palin’s email account being hacked thingy. The right wants you to believe some massive hacker fiddled his way through cyberspace, altering bits and warping the very space-time continuum in order to hack into Palin’s […]
The Republicans went into full exploitation mode last night, using a video showing September 11th over and over again. Keith Olbermann, as someone who lost friends in the attack, went on to talk about how inappropriate it was. That’s why the Republicans hate Olbermann – he exposes their lack of common sense.
He was just on MSNBC saying how parents of special needs children will flock to Palin because of her son. Excuse me? Growing up with a special needs brother, I have one of those parents and she can’t stand Palin. I have also spend a lot of time working with special needs kids over the […]
He is worse! George Bush just said in a news conference he will not be going down to the Gulf until after the storm. He doesn’t want his trip to impede any of the massive operations underway. Does John McCain follow that same track of rational thinking? Hell no: Mr. McCain plans to go to […]
There has been a lot of talk about rather McCain may have heard the questions Saturday night when they were being asked to Barack Obama. It’s pretty much all coming out of a report by CNN that when Rick Warren said McCain was in a “cone of silence”, he actually wasn’t. As matter of fact […]