“Well, the big story is the Supreme Court. President Obama has found his nominee. She is a Federal appeals judge. Sonia Sotomayor, I think her name is. A Latino woman, how about that? So, you know what that means. Ruth Bader Ginsburg no longer the hot chick on the court.” – Jay Leno “History was […]
Karl Rove on Fox News‘ “On the Record”, May 26th: We know from her record on the 2nd Court of Appeals that she’s not a particularly effective colleague. I first got wind of this when Sam Alito, who was her colleague on the court while we were reviewing his record, it — you know, people […]
Quotes from conservative G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race.” And that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments. And, as if calling the […]
One of the complaints that conservatives like to throw at judges they don’t like is that they are “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench”. They seem to use it as an all-purpose insult, even when it doesn’t apply. An excellent example of this is Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. When conservatives […]
OMG! Bush actually believed all that crap about the rapture! It turns out that Bush told the French President Jacques Chirac an involved story about the biblical creatures Gog and Magog at work in the Middle East, and how war in Iraq was “willed by God”. This was revealed by Chirac himself in a new […]
From a new study: Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated. The evidence is based on 1254 community college students and 1600 foreign students seeking entry to United States’ universities. At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores […]
A great montage of the politicians who have appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno over the last 17 years:
Whether you agree with them or not, you gotta love The Onion: In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration’s message of “Change” has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan “Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas.” “Today, Americans face a great many challenges, […]
Garrison Keillor read this poem this morning on The Writer’s Almanac. It was written by former president Jimmy Carter, and published back in 1995: As a legislator in my state I drew up my first law to say that citizens could never vote again after they had passed away. My fellow members faced the troubling […]
The same interrogator dissects Cheney’s lies in a detailed and sobering article in The Huffington Post. Via Raw Story.
It is one of those curious ironies of life that the best thing that liberals could do right now would be to oppose the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Why? For many reasons. Opposing Sotomayor will make it more likely she is confirmed. It is simple politics (a game that the Democrats […]
© Jen Sorensen More info on the new law allowing guns in national parks.
“Ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell went on CBS to reaffirm that he’s still a Republican. And just to prove it, he promised to lose an election right there on the show.” – Jimmy Fallon “Happy Memorial Day, everybody. As you know, the banks were all closed today. And tomorrow, surprisingly, some of them may actually […]
