I’m a sucker for them.
You Are a Liberal for Life
You’ve got a bleeding heart - and you’re proud of it.
For you, liberal means being compassionate, pro-government, and anti-business.
You believe in equality for every person, and you consider yourself universally empathetic.
Helping others is not just political for you … it’s very personal too.
What political persuasion are [...]
Or at least it should be. I’ve mentioned Franklin Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights many times before, but let’s look a little bit more closely at #2:
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
We’re doing pretty well with the first two, but we’re way behind the rest of the world [...]
Stop calling them the American Taliban. It’s not accurate. It’s stupid, insulting, mean-spirited, and petty. Call them wrong. Call them reactionary. Call them homophobic bigots. Call them anti-woman, anti-choice chauvanists, if you really want to. Call them Republicans. But don’t call them the American Taliban.
Yes, many of them have conflated homophobia, the criminalization of [...]
Eric Baerren has a nice take on the recent Intelligent Design hullabaloo, courtesy of Mainstream Baptist:
This really is an issue of fruit.
In one hand, you’ve got an orange (evolution). In the other, you’ve got an apple (Intelligent Design).
If you engage in a broad discussion about fruit (why we exist), it’s proper to weigh the two. [...]
So the story of the day seems to be that some punks allegedly working for the Democratic Party in Milwaukee slashed some tires on Election Day. I have no patience for that kind of shit, and, if the allegations are true, the punks ought to get the book thrown at them.
But why is this [...]
The Washington Post has been on top of the John Roberts story from day one. In today’s edition, there’s another detailed examination of newly-released documents written by John Roberts. He dismisses our right to privacy as a “so-called right”, claims it has “only the most tenuous connection to the Constitution”, and praises Justice Black’s dissent [...]
Well, Paul Hackett fell just a little bit short in his bid to pull off the political upset of the year.
With all 753 precincts reporting from the Ohio 2nd:
JEAN SCHMIDT (R) 57,974 52%
PAUL HACKETT (D) 54,401 48%
Turnout was expected to be around fifty thousand. It was over twice that. The Republicans [...]
305 precincts of 753 reporting:
PAUL HACKETT (D) 23,957 51%
JEAN SCHMIDT (R) 22,846 49%
This is almost too good to be true. The Ohio 2nd is extremely Republican. The 2000 and 2004 President elections went to Bush 63-37. And the Republican margin in past Congressional races (against mostly token opposition, but [...]
A few months ago, the always-pleasant folks over at the right-wing magazine Human Events put together a list of the top ten books they were afraid of. Keynes, Darwin, Friedan, John Stuart Mill, and so on. We all had a good laugh at their silliness, and moved on.
This month they have a new [...]
The Washington Post has an excellent article out today detailing the activities of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts during his time at the Justice Department under the Reagan Administration.:
In the early 1980s, a young intellectual lawyer named John G. Roberts Jr. was part of the vanguard of a conservative political revolution in civil rights, advocating [...]
There’s nothing like a good mystery to awaken the Sherlock Holmes in all of us. And the tangled web the Bush Adminstration is weaving about Karl Rove and Valerie Plame is turning into a good one. None of the stories add up yet, and each loose end seems to get more and more interesting the [...]
Our grandparents were all Democrats. Back then, of course, everyone was a Democrat. We swept election after election; at the high-water mark in 1938, there were 334 Democratic representatives, and 88 Republicans. So what happened?
“I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me”
We’ve all heard that line too often, and it’s probably a [...]