It’s been a while since we last heard from the American Family Association and its endless efforts to boycott companies that bother the group. As long-time readers may recall, every once in a while, Wildmon and the AFA will draw headlines for attacking a group or company for being insufficiently “pro-family,” though most of their […]
I suppose this landscape could be worse for Republicans, but I don’t see how. Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll. In the poll, 81 percent of respondents said […]
Forty years ago today, in Memphis, Tenn., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. John McCain will speak in Memphis today, as part of his “biography tour,” and will reflect on the slain civil rights leader’s legacy. Unfortunately for McCain, though, the speech and the anniversary offer the political world a fresh opportunity to reconsider […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * More discouraging economic news: “The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years, fresh evidence of the damage to a national economy clobbered by housing, credit and financial crises.” * Why did the Maliki offensive […]
As high profile leaders in the Republican Party go, John McCain deserves some credit for believing that the earth really is warming, and that climate change is real. When it comes to environmental policy, McCain’s votes are pretty unreliable, and his plans to address climate change are sad and thin, but at an absolute minimum, […]
About a week ago, Attorney General Michael Mukasey was talking up the Bush administration’s surveillance efforts, and raised a few eyebrows when he got choked up while discussing 9/11 and telecom immunity. But as my friend Sarabeth explained to me yesterday, it was the comments right before Mukasey got emotional that are probably the most […]
It’s possible you’ve had your fill on secret memos written for the Bush administration by John Yoo. But just in case, you may also find it interesting to know that for over a year after 9/11, the Bush gang operated under the assumption that the “war on terror” trumped the Fourth Amendment. Seriously. For at […]
The GI Bill was instrumental in helping send a generation of U.S. veterans to college and helping create the post-WWII middle class, but the law has not kept up with the times. Whereas veterans used to be able to count on the government to pay for all of their college expenses, troops returning from Iraq […]
When a Democratic lawmaker is letting his or her party and constituents down, it makes perfect sense to see a spirited primary challenge. When it’s unlikely that a Republican will win the seat, it’s even better — let the better Democrat win. We’ve seen a couple of good examples lately. In 2006, of course, Joe […]
He didn’t even hint about any specific considerations, but when John McCain mentioned yesterday that he is in the “embryonic stages” of picking a running mate, it was treated as big news. The senator said his list-in-the-making has “every name imaginable,” which apparently includes 20 people, and renewed speculation about who might be included in […]