Southern politicians aren’t playing very well these days. TPM highlights this story: Naked ex-mayor arrested at campsiteGainesville’s Musselwhite denies causing earlier troubleBy Alexis StevensThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionJune 26, 2009 A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn’t the same naked man seen walking around earlier. […]
How you gonna keep them down on the farm? After they’ve seen Paree… We’ve listened patiently for more years than necessary to the moralizing of the modern Christian Family Values set. As in the centuries before, they’ve told us that there is a way things should be. For example, adolescents shouldn’t be having sex with […]
but now that he mentions it, the resemblence is obvious… I remain committed to rebuilding the trust that has been committed to me over the next 18 months, and it is my hope that I am able to follow the example set by David in the Bible – who after his fall from grace humbly […]
Posted at 10:22 AM ET, 06/26/2009 Washington Post White House Watched Today’s column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for spending your time with me and engaging with me over […]
John Stewart’s comment, "Well just another politician with a conservative mind and a liberal penis," has gotten wide play. But what he said before that, "… you’re just another run of the mill human being whose simple moralizing about the sanctity of marriage is only marred by the complexities of their own life," is much […]
Michelle Bachmann is raving on about the questions on the census form – like age, race, sex, sensitive stuff like that. She’s worrying about invasion of our privacy. I wonder if she knows about the N.S.A. unwarranted domestic surveillance program? She’s an amazing character. Just amazing…
There is speculation about why Governor Mark Sanford revealed his affair yesterday. Was it because his wife had thrown him out? Was he encouraged by "The Family," at "C Street," fellow Religious Right Congressmen who had apparently also been working with Senator John Ensign? The answer, it seems, is much more pedestrian. The State, South […]
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The Senator John Ensign and Governor Mark Sanford stories have focused my attention back to the Religious Right, and lead me to this article about Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas [God’s Senator]. If you haven’t already read it, please do so. The article documents a web of connections among the Christian Right that infiltrates the […]
Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman Woman in affair declines interview The State By JOHN O’CONNOR June 24, 2009 Read the full e-mail exchange in Thursday’s edition of The State. Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, […]