First up from the God Machine this week is a rather silly effort by some religio-political activists, who threw a fit when the new $1 coins featured the phrase “In God We Trust” on the edge of the currency, instead of the front. The uproar worked, and the phrase will be moved. According to the […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger recently ran a short item on a truly insane segment that aired on TV preacher Pat Robertson’s “700 Club” about Interstate 35, a highway that bisects the country, running from Texas to Minnesota. Most segments on the “700 Club” are insane, so this one had to be really nutty […]
Guest Post by Morbo This will be my last chance to pop off on the “War on Christmas” this year, and I don’t intend to miss it. People in Green Bay, Wis., must be either amused or disgusted by the antics of their city council. Chad Fradette, council president, erected a nativity scene on an […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Washington Post ran an interesting opinion column recently by Richard Feldman, a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association who has become critical of the organization. Feldman slams the NRA for eschewing all forms of compromise and taking extreme positions. He speculates that top NRA executives actually want to keep […]
Guest Post by Morbo Maryland’s 4th congressional district is so solidly blue that most Republicans aren’t interested in wasting time or money running for the seat because they know they’ll lose by a wide margin. (In 2006, the GOP candidate got 19 percent of the vote.) This opens the door to candidates who are, shall […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Somehow, the MLK story manages to get worse for a certain former Massachusetts governor: “Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: ‘My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through […]
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee has had quite a bit of trouble lately explaining the Wayne Dumond scandal. In Republican circles for the last generation or two, there’s nothing worse than being labeled “soft on crime.” In Huckabee’s case, to borrow Josh Marshall’s description, he “pushed for the release of a serial rapist who subsequently went […]
Sometimes, the national healthcare scandal isn’t limited to those without insurance; sometimes it’s equally outrageous what happens to those with insurance. (thanks to LM for the tip) The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after her health insurer reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant plans to sue […]
By any reasonable measure, John McCain’s experience in the military during the war in Vietnam were heroic and demands respect. If he wants to use this part of his biography in the presidential campaign, it makes perfect sense — like John Kerry, that’s what war heroes do. But it’s interesting that when McCain ran in […]
When it comes to the three leading Democratic presidential candidates, differences on issues have been practically non-existent. When the most serious, substantive policy fight is over one universal-health care plan with mandates and another universal-health care plan without mandates, you know it’s a primary fight that probably won’t be decided on clear policy distinctions. Instead, […]