The counter on the left side of the blog says less than two weeks until the midterm elections. The netroots pundits are on the road headed to various places for the countdown. The email folder is filling up with last minute requests for more money. And my heart is in my stomach. In 2004, I […]
It appears that the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that depriving same sex couples the privleges of "marriage" is unconstitutional, and orders the State to provide something equivalent to Gay couples. This is a landmark decision, surely to raise lots of contraversy. I’ve quoted the piece below from the decision, as it has a […]
It’s election season – a bit like "hunting season." You can shoot at things, hunt them down and shoot them. But this story is a little bigger than the usual Focus on the Dirt of election season to me. Last week at a rally in Nashville, James Dobson responded to the Mark Foley scandal by […]
on the Michael J. Fox ads…
; There’s a lot of coverage of Bush’s attempt to squirm his way out of stay the course – the talking point that backfired. But I want to go on record as saying that the course was a bad idea from the start. We didn’t declare war on Iraq as part of a War on […]
James Dobson: “I have never seen such hatred in my life. I am being bludgeoned” The social consequences of a liberal victory in the coming elections will be grave, particularly for children, Dr. James Dobson warned in a radio broadcast urging pro-family voters to go to the polls. Dr. Dobson accused the national media of […]
Why There Almost Certainly Is No God America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that […]
Bush Flip-Flops On Timelines; Denies His Central Policy So today it comes as no surprise that the White House is setting timetables and benchmarks for the Iraqis to agree to by the end of the year, and if they fail to meet those benchmarks, we will change our strategy regardless of the situation on the […]
on being wrong Not one of my favorites – being dead wrong. None of us care for it very much. It’s always been interesting to me that I don’t have such lofty expectations of others. For them, "to err is human" works for me. All that I care about really is that when someone’s wrong, […]
1964 In 1964, the “daisy girl” political ad for the Democrats warned of the danger of electing Barry Goldwater because he might use the atomic bomb in Viet Nam.” 2006 Now, in 2006, the heirs of Mr. Goldwater are warning that al Qaeda might do the same thing against us – ergo, vote Republican? It […]