Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) seems to be awfully proud of himself. On Friday, he sent out the following twitter: “I seemed to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question – Where does oil come from?”. Barton was referring to Steven Chu, the new US secretary of energy, who appeared in front of the US […]
“We have a new ‘border czar.’ His job is to make sure nobody sneaks into the United States from Texas.” – Jay Leno “Do you know about this? Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax tea party this week by saying that Texas has the right to secede from the Union if it wants […]
CQ Politics has a must-read article about Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) being caught on tape telling a suspected Israeli agent (i.e., a spy) that she would try to get the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. In return, the (suspected) agent promised to lobby Nancy Pelosi to […]
An interesting article in the Washington Post discusses a speech that Sarah Palin gave at a right-to-life fundraising dinner. Palin talked about how twice in her life she considered getting an abortion, but decided against it. But she did gain sympathy for women who have abortions; “I do understand what these women, what these girls go through […]
I’m feeling overwhelmed with irony the last few days, and not just because of all the teabagging going on. There are a bunch of really good articles that I haven’t had time to report on, so I thought I would just list them here. All of them are worth a read. Over at Salon, Glenn […]
I’ve been thinking about the Tax-Day Tea Party protests, and the ironic thing is that I personally agree with much of the underlying sentiment of these protests, and wish that they had actually been real. If you follow this blog, you know that I am a social liberal, but I am also a fiscal conservative […]
The Religious Right in the US is finally starting to come to their senses and realize that the Republican Party has been playing them for fools for the last 30 years. James Dobson, who recently resigned as the head of Focus on the Family, gave a farewell speech to his staff that acknowledged they have […]
It is not often that you hear something that just seems so bizarre considering the person who is saying it, that it kind-of boggles your mind. Such is the case for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. We don’t often hear from Justice Thomas. He hasn’t asked a question in court since February 2006. His public […]
Whenever I receive one of those chain letters making some unbelievable claims, I wander over to Snopes to see if it is true (or if it really is literally unbelievable). But recently a chain letter has been going around that claims that Snopes itself lies, and is secretly run by Democrats (horrors!). Which brings up […]
As they say, the shoemaker’s children go barefoot, but it is a bit ironic that employees of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are picketing the union itself for unfair labor practices. SEIU recently laid off around 75 workers. The employees claim age and race discrimination, and that SEIU dismissed workers without proper notice and […]
It is well known that traditional media sources are in trouble, largely due to the rise of the internet and what that is doing to their business model. You might think that the media would at least try to understand their biggest competitor. But you would be wrong, as evidenced by this recent epic fail […]
Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich), along with 70 Republican co-sponsors, has introduced in Congress an amendment to the US Constitution to enshrine “Parental Rights”. These rights include the right of parents to beat their children and the right of parents to choose the religion of their children. They are worried that these rights might be taken away […]
While right-wingers are still using red-baiting to try to scare people by calling Obama a socialist, etc., it appears that this tactic is not working. A new survey from Rasmussen shows that just 53% of American adults believe that capitalism is better than socialism. What is even scarier is that for adults under the age […]
It’s tough being a conservative politician right now. You can’t really run on the conservative record of fiscal restraint, and (formerly hot-button) social issues only work with a shrinking number of Americans. So what’s the safe thing to run on? One possibility that we are seeing more of is to be against anything that the […]
If religious conservatives thought that eight years of George Bush would help them gain strength, they are going to be disappointed. Not only did his administration not manage to pass any of the big social conservative issues — no abortion ban or amendment against gay marriage — they didn’t even do so well on more […]
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