Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC has been saying for a long time that Tim Pawlenty is the most likely Republican presidential nominee for 2012, simply because he lacks the fatal faults of the others. I agree.

I've argued that Mitt Romney has a problem which most media will not talk about: the Christianists and Evangelicals who run the Republican ( Read more... )

Apparently Chris Matthews of MSNBC has had it with the Republican field. He complained this morning that the YouTube debate which I could not stomach resembled "a Youth for Christ" rally, and that it sounded like a Sunday school contest for who could quote the most Bible verses.

He singled out Huckabee for the greatest criticism, for the content ( Read more... )

It's obviously (poison) apples versus oranges when the anti-choice movement claims their campaign to give full citizenship to fetuses (by taking it away from women) is comparable to the 20th-century civil rights movement, or to 19th-century efforts to abolish slavery. And now, a new book reveals that the anti-choice apple was already rotten with ( Read more... )