I love this woman, mainly for her use of common sense in the face of manufactured hysteria. I have no problem linking this horrible invasion of privacy — this absolute betrayal of human decency — to Tyler’s death. I do … Continue reading
Angelina Jolie is standing up for Islam. The Oscar winner, currently visiting flood victims in Pakistan as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, is speaking out against a Florida evangelical minister’s controversial plan to hold a Quran burning on the ninth anniversary … Continue reading
CNN, unsurprisingly, presents a Muslim sob-story. Boo-hoo Eid falls on 9/11. Boo hoo, boo hoo. For Muslims, the end of the holy month of Ramadan is typically cause for celebration, with three days of feasting and socializing after a month … Continue reading
The right wing of the country is taking quite the beating for “outing” Elana Kagan, or at least attempting to. Karen Tumulty examines the fascination over her sexual preferences in a very solid piece for the Washington Post. “False charges,” … Continue reading
Haiti is devastated. 100,000 people are likely to have perished in a quake that destroyed the entire country and leveled the capitol to a point where it will take years just to get the country back to the mediocre condition … Continue reading
A judge in Oklahoma extended on Friday a temporary restraining order on a law that would post information online about women who get abortions in the state. In extending the restraining order, Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens denied the … Continue reading
8-12 doesn’t sound so bad when you don’t have any place you need to be!
Elliot Spitzer has some pretty good taste… Her column in the Post is here.
Although limited to a review of military operations eight years old, the report could also be read as a cautionary note for those resisting an increased troop presence there now. More pointedly, it seeks to affix a measure of blame … Continue reading
Absolutely spot-on. Go read it. In deciding to use federal court, the attorney general probably considered the record of the military commission system that was established in November 2001. This system secured three convictions in eight years. The only person … Continue reading
The big campaign speeches and oodles of rhetoric during the 2008 campaign are encapsulated in this speech… Demonstrating that “Judgment to Lead,” and following up on all that lofty “we will do this and that” type stuff, the President has … Continue reading
A swine flu vaccine mix-up has sparked outrage and concern. Two children were given the vaccine without their parent’s consent. One mother said her daughter ended up in the emergency room after getting sick. It’s a major mistake that could’ve … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy … Continue reading
A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve. The seven-member … Continue reading
Q: Should more US troops be sent to Afghanistan? We need more troops. The situation is getting worse. We had the highest fatalities among US troops this past year than at any time since 2002. I would send 2 to … Continue reading
Since 1994, almost 13,000 gay servicemen and women have been discharged from the military based not on their performance but on their sexual orientation. In 2009 alone, we’ve had more than 400 of our brave men and women leave the … Continue reading
Ever since those seven Senators decided to vote against defunding corruption-riddled ACORN, I’ve been trying to figure out how a common sense legislator like NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand could get roped into a group that didn’t see fit to putting … Continue reading
Enough of this crap. Here’s what’s wrong with the current “debate” on health care (if you can call it a debate; right now it’s being framed as the good altruistic government versus the evil greedy racist non reformist teabaggers) and … Continue reading