In New Hampshire, Republicans are pushing to end rules that allow same-day voter registration in the state, which has often provided key swing votes for candidates from all parties in the state. State GOP lawmakers are also proposing new limits on students, including a bill that would allow them to vote in college towns only if they or their ( Read more... )

 By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'

SPECIAL COMMENT
Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. We need to put the guns down. Just as importantly we need to put the gun metaphors away and permanently.

Left, right, middle - politicians and citizens - sane and insane. ( Read more... )

I think, considering he's a tour book writer, I am in complete adoration for Rick Steves. (Also see his book, Travel as a Political Act.)

9/11 and Other Numbers

by Rick Steves on Saturday, 11 September 2010 at 17:36

This month we Americans - all 300 million of us - remember the tragic loss of 2,973 lives, when terrorists attacked our nation. In the ( Read more... )

US church defiant despite condemnation of Koran burning

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
How. How is this a good idea? General Motherfucking Petraeus himself said ( Read more... )

In a poll of New York City residents for the New York Times, published on 27 August, 72% of those interviewed told pollsters people have the right to build a house of worship near Ground Zero.

No surprise there, that's what religious freedom means.

But when asked, "Do people have the right to build a mosque and Islamic community center near ground ( Read more... )

Which you will probably still get about the treatment of Roma (And thus why France needs to be bitch-slapped).

But that has been interrupted for this piece of news:

ETA ANNOUNCES CEASE-FIRE.

I don't know how many people actually know about the ETA (I actually only really found out about them... yesterday. But it was a very intense yesterday about it ( Read more... )

In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend.

The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the Hong Kong authorities.

A Chinese woman in her twenties, identified only as "W", underwent sex change surgery at a public hospital a few years ago.

The ( Read more... )

This is the 65th Anniversary.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was also attending the ceremony for the first time, presented flowers at the Eternal Flame in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park.

"Life is short, but memory is long," he said.

"For many of you, that day endures... as vivid as the white light that seared the sky, as dark as the black ( Read more... )

US judge overturns California same-sex marriage ban
It's not the end of the battle or anything, but that is just exciting. Though, it will probably/definatly end up going to the Supreme Court, so maybe they'll be as smart as this judge.

Okay, the fact that OBAMA GOT VIRGINIA IS JUST SO HAPPY MAKING ( Read more... )