(1 comments)        Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Will Expletives Ring Out on C-SPAN?   SHARE The tender ears of Supreme Court justices - and the audience at the Supreme Court - will be subjected to raw expletives next week. The "fleeting expletives" case will examine the FCC's changing policy on the one-time, unscripted use of expletives on award shows and other broadcasts. Will C-SPAN itself run afoul of the FCC policy at issue in the case by broadcasting the same offending words?

       Tuesday, October 21, 2008
TNR: Barack Obama For President   SHARE The implosion of the old McCain, if he ever truly existed as we imagined, saddens us. Obama has the makings of a man who understands the times. Unlike Bush, he actually listens to those with whom he vehemently disagrees; and in debating McCain, he frequently, and without hesitation, voiced agreement. His election offers an opportunity to roll back the Bush legacy and perhaps even restore us to our former beauty.

(1 comments)        Tuesday, October 21, 2008
McCain Requested Donations from Foreigners - IN WRITING   SHARE McCain must think public financing should include the public in RUSSIA, too. Russia's permanent mission to the UN said in a statement on Monday: "We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign."

(1 comments)        Friday, October 10, 2008
Greenwald: The Right and mainstream America: a universe apart   SHARE Two new polls conclusively demonstrate how out-of-touch and fringe the Right has become. Obama's popularity holds steady while McCain's plummets, and Palin is a massive liability for his campaign. Americans see McCain as out-of-touch with their values. The more the McCain/Palin campaign attacks Obama with ugly, despicable smears, the worse McCain/Palin look to Americans.

(3 comments)        Tuesday, September 30, 2008
They Make You Embarrassed to be a Conservative   SHARE UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge says racists like Michelle Malkin and Mark Krikorian are embarrassing all conservatives by blaming the Wall Street meltdown on minorities. "The raving of people like Malkin and Krikorian should be taking place in a padded room in Arkham Asylum not in the public discourse. The freezing of the credit markets doesn't have anything to do with either affirmative action or illegal immigration."

(2 comments)        Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Sarah Palin Pity Party   SHARE Is this the week that Dems and Repubs join hands to heap pity on poor Sarah Palin? Even Amy Poehler, impersonating Katie Couric on SNL, jokes that Palin's cornered-animal ineptitude makes her "increasingly adorable." While Palin provokes many unpleasant emotions in me, I just can't seem to summon pity, affection or remorse. I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly.

       Monday, September 29, 2008
Gonzales to Face Continued Scrutiny in Criminal Probe   SHARE The report issued after an 18-month joint investigation by Inspector General Glenn Fine and OPR head H. Marshall Jarrett into the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys says exactly what Congressional Democrats have been worried about: "These removals were not a minor personnel matter – they were an unprecedented removal of a group of high-level Department officials..."

(3 comments)        Monday, September 29, 2008
Sarah Palin is ruining my life,   SHARE I've always disliked the pettiness of politics, the lies, mudslinging, arguments over meaningless minutiae, the parsing of personalities. Then came Sarah. I've crossed every line I believed should never be crossed in public discourse. I've criticized not only her policies and record, but her hair, personal style, her accent, her abilities as a mother. I've begun to suffer professionally. Is there a self-help group for this?

       Thursday, September 25, 2008
Worst self-inflicted campaign move ever?   SHARE This is basically a "dog ate my homework" excuse that anyone can understand. The senator with one of the lowest actual-attendance rates at the Capitol in the last two years, and who has played little role in crafting legislation recently, suddenly needs to be nowhere but Washington -- exactly now?

       Thursday, September 25, 2008
Religious Groups' Declaration demands presidential executive order on torture   SHARE Evangelicals for Human Rights, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and the Center for Victims of Torture have drafted a declaration of principles its members want to see the next president include in an executive order on prisoner treatment, torture and cruelty.

(4 comments)        Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for McCain   SHARE The offer was too alluring to delay. The assignment is simple: We are allowed to make up whatever we want as long as it adds to the campaign. We are to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq.

(3 comments)        Friday, September 19, 2008
Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals, Say Scientists   SHARE Science has now proven what we knew all along. Conservatives are scared senseless. In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats. The results suggest that fear leads to political conservatism.

       Friday, September 19, 2008
Library Unearths Unknown Mozart Work   SHARE The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, is the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed. The library has had the fragment in its collection since the 19th century, but it had never been authenticated until now.

       Friday, September 19, 2008
Boxer Awakens After Two Months In Coma   SHARE Two months after slipping into a coma following a brain injury sustained during a televised fight, San Antonio welterweight Oscar Diaz is awake and breathing on his own.

       Friday, September 19, 2008
Judge rejects saggy jeans law   SHARE A law that landed a Florida teenager in jail for having sagging jeans that exposed his underwear is unconstitutional, a judge has decided. The 17-year-old was arrested and jailed overnight for exposing 4in of boxer shorts in Riviera Beach, Florida.

       Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Less Than Half the World Believes al Qaeda Was Behind 9/11 Attacks   SHARE A poll of 16,000 people in 17 countries reveals the damage done to the credibility of the United States by the Bush administration.

(1 comments)        Saturday, September 6, 2008
Palin: "So Sambo beat the bitch!"   SHARE This is how McCain's VP nominee Sarah Palin described Obama's win over Hillary to political colleagues in a restaurant after Obama's nomination. People who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska's Aboriginal people as "Arctic Arabs" and "mukluks."

(1 comments)        Wednesday, September 3, 2008
McCain-Palin Camp Sanitizing Sites and Re-Dating Photos   SHARE History is being rewritten. Controversial photos of the Palin family that don't fit their story or timeline are now removed, re-captioned, and re-dated. Sites are cleansed of damaging or unflattering information. Everything is disappearing into Orwell's "memory hole."

       Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Palin's Mother-In-Law: Considering Voting For Obama   SHARE "I'm not sure what [Sarah] brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain."

(2 comments)        Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sarah Inhaled   SHARE McCain's new VP pick admits smoking pot, says she definitely inhaled - and is proud of it.