Guest Post by Morbo Proponents of so-called “faith-based” initiatives insist that religious organizations provide social services more efficiently than secular or government-based providers. To them, religion is always a good thing and taxpayers should have no fear of paying for its promulgation. A recent Associated Press story from Charlotte, N.C., dramatically underscores what’s wrong with […]
Guest Post by Morbo The same right-wingers who brought you creation science and proclaim that global warming is a myth are now promoting a new pseudo-science: The assertion that Terri Schiavo can be brought out of her vegetative state and restored to a meaningful life. In promoting this view, congressional GOP members cynically exploit a […]
Guest Post by Morbo I have bad news for anyone reading this: Eventually, you are going to grow old and die. I hate to be a downer, but here’s another news flash that won’t exactly make your day: You could, later today, be driving back from the grocery store when an intoxicated person driving an […]
There’s an annoying tendency of high-ranking Bush administration officials to grow bothered by the politics, road blocks, and ineffectiveness surrounding their work, only to have them talk about after they’ve left and it’s too late. The latest in Tommy Thompson. Yesterday, during a rambling question-and-answer session at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Thompson complained bitterly and […]
The Government Accountability Office has already begun looking into the Bush administration’s decision to give Armstrong Williams $240,000, and fortunately, that probe is about to expand to include some more examples of Bush’s political payola. The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether the Bush administration broke the law when it paid a syndicated columnist to […]
There’s something uniquely horrific about school shootings. The overwhelming majority of the time, parents can feel safe knowing that their kids are safe in classrooms, which only makes incidents like the one at Red Lake High School this week all the more tragic. With this in mind, questions about why the White House hasn’t acknowledged […]
My new daily feature about campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * I’m not the only one singing Harry Reid’s praises; DNC Chairman Howard Dean is reportedly impressed with the Senate Minority Leader’s “recent aggressive style,” leading to a budding friendship between […]
The bi-partisan push to undo some of the White House’s heartless stem cell policy is making significant headway and should make for an intense political showdown in the coming months. Just last month, Rep. Charles Bass, a New Hampshire Republican, helped push the issue back onto the House agenda with a proposal to scale back […]
It seems like just a year ago that Dick Cheney had become such an embarrassment to the White House that there was widespread talk that Bush would be better off dropping the VP from the ticket. Oh wait, that was just a year ago. And yet, here we are, three-and-a-half years before the next presidential […]
There’s something terribly callous about Republicans in Congress using the Terri Schiavo case for partisan political gain, but it’s downright disgusting to see someone try and raise money off her plight. Videotape of Terri Schiavo blinking at her parents has inspired donations from people around the country to the foundation set up to help pay […]