The reason the media focuses on gaffes and misstatements during political campaigns is because that's where you get a glimpse beneath the polished veneer of the campaign: a look beneath the mask, if you will.

Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, gave us an unintended peek beneath the carefully laid mask ( Read more... )

( 'Sup )

ms_daisy_cutter says her sympathy meter reads zero for Congressman Bart Stupak, who has received multiple threats and obscene messages in response to voting for health care reform ( Read more... )

After watching the continued goings-on about South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, I jokingly suggested to some co-workers around lunchtime that the reason he'd gone to Argentina was to meet up with a young man for an affair.

Turns out he went to Argentina to meet up with a young woman for an affair. Regardless, I'm really not shocked, but I do ( Read more... )

If you haven't, she's a 20-something caucasian college student, originally from College Station, Texas, is going to school in Pittsburgh. She made national headlines after she told reporters that a 6'4" black man attacked her after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on the back of her car ( Read more... )

First ... to whomever sprang (sprung?) for my LJ subscription, thank you. :)

Second ... ( social engineering skillz, I has dem )

From Reuters:

In a speech before Homeland Security Department employees, Bush said it was important that Americans remember "some serious lessons on September the 11th," and that U.S. security agencies must take the words of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "very seriously" when he says operations are in preparation ( Read more... )

It's time to add onetime presidential hopeful John Kerry to the long list of politicians who have scant understanding of free speech and the Internet.

Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a press release [July 20] that he wants to make it "illegal to transmit images of dog fighting, to run websites that cater to dog fighting."
More here: Sen. ( Read more... )

I have no intention of letting a disagreement affect our friendship. *Smiles* It's perfectly okay for us to disagree -- or for everyone to disagree with you, for that matter. That makes you no less right, and oh by the way, that's one of the things the First Amendment allows us to do in the first place ( Read more... )

In case anyone has forgotten the most fundamental freedom written into our Constitution ( Read more... )