Guest Post by Morbo In previous posts, I’ve noted my belief that the Religious Right’s vociferous anti-gay movement will not stop at state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. They have an agenda far wider than that. I predict battles in the states over issues like gay adoption, gay foster parenting, the right of gays to […]
Guest Post by Morbo I never harbored much hope that Pope Benedict XVI would reverse the shortsighted and dangerous anti-condom policies of his predecessor. Recently the pope made it official: no rubbers no matter what. Meeting with South African bishops at the Vatican, Benedict addressed AIDS, which has decimated the African continent. “Brother bishops,” he […]
Guest Post by Morbo I’ve thought about awarding a prize for the dumbest thing said about evolution every week. I’m certain I would have no problem finding winners. This week’s contender is Connie Morris, a member of the Kansas Board of Education. The Kansas City Star reported that Morris sent a four-page letter to her […]
Guest Post by Morbo The autopsy results for Terri Schiavo were made public on Wednesday, and the Religious Right doesn’t come out looking good. Leaders of various Religious Right organizations, primarily Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council, asserted that Schiavo, the Florida woman who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, could have […]
I don’t think it’s likely, but if the Republican Party is going to be saved, John Danforth will help make it happen. He’s offering his party a path back towards sanity; all they have to do now is follow it. Danforth is not just some Rockefeller Republican from the northeast. He’s an “elder statesman” in […]
They never learn. The Bush gang hasn’t been shy about producing and distributing taxpayer-financed propaganda in the form of fake-news segments, and they haven’t hid the fact that the criticism hasn’t fazed them. As far as the administration is concerned, they’ve been doing it, they’ll keep doing it, and they’re not terribly concerned about independent […]
You know what House Majority Leader Tom DeLay really needs right now? Yet another conflict-of-interest controversy. Fortunately, a new one just popped up. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay owns stock worth more than $50,000 in ExxonMobil, according to financial disclosure reports, while at the same time he is one of the driving forces behind legislation […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) may generate excitement with the GOP base following her role in “fixing” Florida’s presidential vote count in 2000, but top Republican leaders are not exactly happy about her […]
I was more than willing to let the Terri Schiavo controversy fade away. We can look back and realize that Congress was wrong to intervene, Bill Frist was wrong to falsely diagnose a patient he’d never seen, and conservatives in general were wrong to slander Michael Schiavo by falsely accusing him of abusing and trying […]
If the Bush gang asks a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global warming, editing out scientific conclusions he doesn’t like, it stands to reason that the same Bush gang will take similar measures to re-write similar documents on the same issue. Bush administration officials working behind the […]