Here we are with two no-win wars in the Mideast, an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. economy screwed up like it hasn’t been screwed up in 80 years, and this nonsense is up there with the day’s top news stories. President Obama didn’t want this weekend’s getaway to Florida’s Gulf [...]
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Court strikes down Proposition 8,
affirming marriage rights of all
A federal district court judge ruled today California’s Proposition 8 denying gay and lesbian citizens the basic human right of marrying the person of their choice is unconstitutional. In his ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker cited equal protection and due process clauses, ordering the state to cease enforcement of Proposition 8 provisions. Proposition 8 fails to [...]
Idle hands too often end up holding guns
Federal authorities arrested eight of nine members of a Michigan anti-government extremist group, the Hutaree Militia, over the weekend, bringing the ninth in today, to face indictments on sedition and weapons charges. The group is suspected of planning to kill a police officer and then use IED’s to kill people in the deceased’s funeral caravan [...]
A scandal that isn’t about a racist who’s not
The forces of darkness and party of no smell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s blood, and they’re out to bring him down, all because of a remark from a year or two ago in which he referred to then-Sen. Barack Obama as a light-skinned black with “no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” [...]
All-volunteer military the product
of a two-tier American society
“A wise and just manpower policy remains the foundation of this nation’s national defense. The late Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, the nation’s pre-eminent military sociologist (and a U.S. Army draftee after he graduated from Princeton), gave this wise and timeless insight: ‘The answer to the question of what are vital national interests is found [...]
Taking down righties’ moral hazard meme
Our response to a comment at Major Conflict, under the post, “The Song Remains the Same,” provided a chance to fire back at one all-too-typical regurgitation of conservative conventional wisdom. We hope using the resulting broadside for a post doesn’t strike you as too self-indulgent. First, the part of a comment from someone who calls [...]
Texas might’ve made marriage illegal
After George W. Bush’s reign of error, Alberto “The Amnesiac” Gonzales’ stint as attorney general and Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s secession eruptions before cheering crowds of locals with teabags for brains, it’s reasonable to wonder about the people of that state. But hold on for the latest: The Lone Star State’s narrow and nil of [...]
D.C., church on collision course over gay rights
Washington, D.C.’s municipal government and Catholic Charities are having a showdown over the city’s intention to treat same-sex couples just as opposite-sex couples are treated. If no accommodation is reached, Catholic Charities is likely to sever its working relationship with the city, possibly to the detriment of the city’s have nots. The nation’s capital has [...]
Why do Obama-hating reform foes get traction?
These are people who hang on the every word of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, Savage and their ilk. These are people who see no inconsistency in hating their government and everything it does while presenting themselves as the only true patriots in America.
Ted Kennedy understood, acted upon
truths conservatives wilfully reject
Kennedy understood, in common with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman . . . that some Americans get rich or grow wealth they already have by doing things that keep others from improving their lot in life.
