McCain supports overturning Roe

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings He’s been wishy-washy on abortion in the past, back in his media-friendly “maverick” days, but now that he’s running for president he’s turning into the social conservative he needs to be to have any hope of making it through the GOP primaries. Yes, Sen. John McCain told ABC’s George […]

One Last Legislative Push to Legalize Warrantless Surveillance

Guest Post by Anonymous Liberal Yesterday I wrote about Vice President Cheney’s deeply dishonest speech to the Federalist Society in which he claimed, among other things, that the administration’s warrantless surveillance program rested “on firm legal ground.” When I first read the speech, I assumed it was just another case of Cheney being Cheney. The […]

Sunday discussion group: What are America’s obligations with respect to Iraq?

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings I hope Steve doesn’t mind, but I thought I’d get a discussion going today. Basically, the question is this: What to do about Iraq? I know, that’s the big question that we’ve all been thinking about, but if you’re like me you’re still wrestling with the specifics. Should the […]

Democrats serious about tackling global warming

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings The Post is telling us that “[d]ramatic changes in congressional oversight of environmental issues may pump new life into efforts to fight global warming”. The good news isn’t just that Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will be taking over the chairmanship of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee but that […]

Latino voters abandon the GOP

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings No surprise here: Two years ago, Latino voters gravitated in larger-than-ever numbers toward President Bush, the former governor of Texas, a Mexican border state, and his brother Jeb, the loquacious Florida governor who speaks fluent Spanish… How times have changed. Pollsters generally agree that the same voters abandoned the […]

Let the investigations begin

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Congress under the Democrats will likely (and hopefully) be an investigative body as much as a legislative one. The legislative agenda is impressive — a minimum wage increase, stem-cell research funding, lobbying reform, etc. — but we’ve been waiting a long time for the truth about the abuses of […]

Cheney’s Deeply Pathological Speech to the Federalist Society

Guest Post by Anonymous Liberal At an event sponsored by the Federalist Society on Thursday, Vice President Cheney said the following to a room full of lawyers and law students: We’re confident because the Terrorist Surveillance Program rests on firm legal ground. The Joint Authorization to Use Military Force, passed by Congress after 9/11, provides […]

Mitt catches praise and flak from the Religious Right

Guest Post by Morbo While Democrats find themselves wondering if the country is ready for the first female or black president, Republicans face a different dilemma: Is America ready for its first Mormon president? Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, has definitely thrown his hat in the ring. As a one-term governor of a state […]

The appalling, anti-family disgrace that is opposite-sex marriage

Guest Post by Morbo I try to avoid news about celebrities, but in this culture it’s next to impossible not to see some. Thus, I read recently that Brittney Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are divorcing, as are the Hollywood couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe. This leads me to conclude that it was […]

Maybe I shouldn’t have endorsed that Republican after all

Guest Post by Morbo One of the great political myths of America is that African-American voters are like lemmings who do whatever their clergy or political leaders tell them to. That certainly was not the case this month in Prince George’s County, Md., a majority-black jurisdiction east of Washington, D.C. Several local Democratic politicians there, […]