Here’s another one for the IRS to investigate: A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.” The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a […]
Wow did McCain bomb tonight. Holy shit! HuffPo has the rundown of the news networks, who all gave it to Obama (even FOX). Instead of spending time writing out my words on this, I am going to let Andrew Sullivan speak for me: This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal […]
Everybody at once – “awwwww“: John McCain’s campaign hit back at Madonna on Sunday after the pop diva kicked off her world tour with a concert that bracketed the US presidential candidate with Adolf Hitler. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds angrily condemned the segment of Madonna’s concert in Cardiff on Saturday that appeared to draw […]
Rick Davis on the line up of speakers for the GOP convention: “I think one of the things that is important, especially for John McCain, as unique a politician as he is, is to demonstrate the diversity and differences of ideology I would say of our party,” Davis said. “I think one of the things […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers that truth about the Clinton campaign: Woflson claims that Edwards and Clinton voters were the same. Really? What happened in Wisconsin? What happened in Indiana? (you know what I mean) What happened in Virginia? This is, ultimately, why I’m glad Clinton lost. Accountability does not exist with these guys, and in that, […]
A sad loss for the world of comedy: Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in “Blazing Saddles,” died May 29 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81. Mr. Korman had […]
They took action right away on this one: NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama. “This mistake was inexcusable,” MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said. It happened during the opening of “Hardball” Monday evening. Matthews […]
E.J. Dionne has a great piece up today about the Democrats problem in Congress. Democrats in Congress are discovering what it’s like to live in the worst of all possible worlds. They are condemned for selling out to President Bush and condemned for failing to make compromises aimed at getting things done. Democrats complain that […]
Rudy talks about being so pro-active when it comes to Iraq and terrorism. Well how about this: Rudolph Giuliani’s membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel’s top Republican to give him […]
This one from right here in the Buckeye state: A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring. The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who […]