Santorum got over 10%. (yes, that was the only surprise)

This primary was a lot weird, given how hard the RNC (national party leadership) and the FRC (state party leadership) clashed, and the result was the rules were changed from a partial free-for-all to a winner-takes-half. The new rules favored (heavily) the candidate who could throw the most money at the problem ( Read more... )

...I'm not so sure that's the message the GOP wants to send if they plan on getting elected to anything. But I'm not Karl Rove, so I don't make policy/speechwriting decisions at that level ( Read more... )

Newt plays the race card in arguably the strongest bastion of racism left in the country and catapults to the front. I know, I was shocked, too ( Read more... )

Gay people are not a criminal class.

( WARNING: I belabor a point which should be obvious for about ten minutes. )

Indeed, where is the center of gravity in the Tea Party movement as a whole? When trade union employees openly despise unions on ideological grounds, and hate teachers both for their union organizations and their "indoctrination" tactics (outrageous, how they demand children learn facts in order to be graded on their progress!) and advocate ( Read more... )

In this case, standing to defend. I hope we all remember Perry v Schwarzenegger, in which it turned out the named defendants had no interest in defending, and agreed to let others represent the side they were as happy to concede was wrong. Well, today* the California Supreme Court is expected to answer the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' question: ( Read more... )

So we've been hearing some things about the new START treaty, same as the old START treaty, most recently from British reactionaries screaming “stab in the back” over US' agreement to disclose to Russia when we transfer a nuclear weapon into British (or French, or other) hands. I aim not merely to make light of their utterly puerile, cowardly ( Read more... )

Okay, assume Congress has a new, Republican Speaker in January, who immediately sets out to impeach the President ( Read more... )

I have thinked a few thoughts about the Constitution. ( Let me show you them. )