There’s not much I like about Rick Perry, but this idea from his book ‘Fed Up’ is one I can definitely get behind: One solution the governor embraces is to end lifetime tenure — a cornerstone of the Constitution, whose drafters worried far less about activist or senile judges than about meddling tyrants and political […]
At a townhall in Cincinnati, Republican Congressman Steve Chabot decided that people should not be allowed to videotape the event and had a police officer seize the camera of citizens recording the public event of a public figure inside of a public building: What is even worse is the excuse given by Chabot’s spokesman: Schwartz […]
Welcome to my newest acronym – Angry Men With Guns. I came up with it while reading this article from Politico talking about the rise in threats against lawmakers. The key passage: Though each threat case is different, the FBI documents reveal some common characteristics. The suspects are mostly men who own guns, and several […]
Condi rice decided to pull out a tricky Dick line when talking about torture: So if the President is above the law, then will Bill Clinton get his law license back? What if President Obama decides to lock up all members of the previous administratoin without a trial? I guess that would be legal also. […]
So Obama retook the oath of office last night after John Roberts screwed up the original one on Tuesday. Will that make the wingnuts happy? Of course not. So now FOX and the rest of the right has something to bitch about. I’m sure they will try to claim this also nullifies his presidency, even […]
There has been a buzz today about Palin getting on her own supporters as they chanted “louder”, thinking they were protesters. Despite that, there is something missing in her statement to the so-called “protesters”: “I would hope at least that those protesters have the courage and the honor of thanking our veterans for giving them […]
Maybe we can be saved as a nation. A new Pew Research poll finds more Americans now believe churches should be kept out of politics. I wonder how much the Bush reign had to do with this? His eight years has really muddled the divider between church and state that our founding fathers felt imperative […]
So I ended up watching the Saddleback forum last night. I wasn’t sure if I would or not. To me this was a rather large insult against our nation and founding fathers, a view shared by even people of very deep faith. So what did I think? Well it wasn’t bad. I liked the format, […]
In a speech ignored by cable news networks today, Al Gore sounds the alarm about our constitution being in crisis and the dangers our nation faces by an executive branch that is out of control and power hungry. Excerpts follow: [..] During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the President went out of […]
Just in via the AP Falwell’s ‘Vote Christian’ Criticized A Jewish organization is calling on the Rev. Jerry Falwell to retract a “vote Christian in 2008” statement made months ago in a letter raising money for his ministries. The criticism of Falwell appeared Monday on the Web site of the Anti-Defamation League, a group organized […]