So, just how big a deal is Tuesday’s Senate primary in Connecticut? The Washington Post’s Dan [tag]Balz[/tag] has a very good piece today that argues, persuasively, that the outcome “could be a party watershed.” The passion and energy fueling the antiwar challenge to Sen. Joseph I. [tag]Lieberman[/tag] in Connecticut’s Senate primary signal a power shift […]
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held a quick gaggle with reporters in Crawford yesterday, when an interesting subject came up. Q: Tony, earlier this year the President brought in some advisors to talk about the war in Iraq, some outsiders — outside experts. Is he doing anything similar, or are any senior officials doing […]
Raise your hand if you find this surprising. Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American […]
A remarkably dumb YouTube video is working its way through conservative circles, spoofing Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and global warming. It’s pretty weak — the video’s basic pitch is that Gore’s movie is boring and is intended to brainwash viewers. The Wall Street Journal noted that the video “has a home-made, humorous quality,” though […]
In March, Claude Allen, a top White House domestic policy advisor and favorite of Christian conservatives, was caught in a two-bit shoplifting scheme in which he’d return items he hadn’t actually purchased. At the time, Allen said there had been a mix-up with his credit card. He was lying. Yesterday, however, he managed to avoid […]
First up from the God machine this week is an unusual religion problem in a religious Texas town. Apparently, it has too many churches. They are not the words one expects to hear from a politician or a Southerner, and Leonard Scarcella is both: “Our city has an excessive number of churches.” Scarcella is mayor […]
Guest Post by Morbo [tag]James Dobson[/tag]’s [tag]Focus on the Family[/tag] is very upset because evolution opponents lost their majority on the [tag]Kansas[/tag] [tag]Board of Education[/tag] this week. The FOF “news” service ran an interesting story about the election. It is full of lies. Let’s parse it, shall we? Advocates of accurate science standards in public […]
Guest Post by Morbo I normally favor trying to work out disputes through dialogue and compromise rather than lawsuits. But sometimes people act so darn stubborn and backward that they deserve to be sued into the Stone Age. Case in point: the rubes in the Indian River School District in Georgetown, Del. As detailed in […]
For a couple of weeks now, my friend Tom Schaller has argued that Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[/tag] would not run as an independent if he loses next week’s primary to [tag]Ned Lamont[/tag]. Today, one of Lieberman’s colleagues predicted the same thing. A Democratic senator said Friday that if Sen. Joe Lieberman loses his [tag]primary[/tag] Tuesday by […]
I follow culture-war issues fairly closely, but the Pew Research Center conducted a survey with an interesting perspective on the hot-button issues. As the researchers see it, there can’t be a “war” because there aren’t two distinct sides. The so-called [tag]culture war[/tag]s rending America over such issues as abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research […]