For a while, it seemed as if we’d hear new reports about a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription on religious grounds every week. It led to a flood of publicity, bills in Congress, and new laws at the state level. This week, there was a similar controversy in Ohio, but this one had a […]
It’s not my intention to belabor the point, but I have an important follow-up to yesterday’s item on Barack Obama and the Indonesian school he attended as a six year old. To briefly recap, some of the more hysterical elements of the conservative movement would have us believe that Obama has secret “Muslim heritage,” may […]
The further we get from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the more former FEMA director Michael Brown seems willing to share. His latest remarks are of particular interest. Party politics played a role in decisions over whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA director Michael Brown said […]
First up from the God Machine is a news item that sounds apocryphal, but a) it appeared in a fairly credible newspaper; and b) I can’t find any reports debunking it. The letter “X” soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: […]
We knew it was pretty likely, and today’s it’s official: Sen. Hillary Clinton announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Six years after making history by winning a United States Senate seat as first lady, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this morning that she was taking the first formal step to seek the Democratic […]
Guest Post by Morbo As the Carpetbagger noted on Wednesday, Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Enemy at Home, is out. In a NUTshell (pun intended), D’Souza in this book asserts that al-Qaeda hates America because liberals insist on exporting a crude and sexually charged popular culture to the world. Thus, you see, the 9/11 can […]
Guest Post by Morbo Jan. 16 was “Religious Freedom Day.” Coming as it does around the same time as the federal Martin Luther King holiday, this event often gets overlooked. It’s a shame because the day marks an important anniversary. On Jan. 16, 1786, Thomas Jefferson’s “Act for Establishing Religious Freedom” became law in Virginia. […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The initial reports after Jane Hamsher’s surgery are all positive, which is great news. We’re all pulling for you, Jane. * As partisan and polarized as Congress got last year, at least we’re still not close to the Parliament in Taiwan. * Given how long Thomas Friedman has been […]
I saw a big AP headline a few minutes ago that read, “Pelosi comments draw White House ire,” and got a little nervous. Sometimes, if a Dem slips even a little, and a remark comes out poorly, the White House will pounce and milk it for all it’s worth (and then some). I cringed just […]
I posted this over at my other gig, but it’s probably worth taking a moment to consider in more detail. Dean Barnett, filling in for Hugh Hewitt, highlighted the results of the latest Fox News poll (.pdf), which, among other things, asked respondents, “Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week […]