I've said it before and I'll say it again - Democrats MUST make inroads towards winning back the south. Yeah yeah, Texas will never go blue for in a Presidential election, and certain congressional districts in the deep south will be red for eternity, but that doesn't mean we can just write off the entire region. We're talking about a part of the ( Read more... )

Human Events, "The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944", has come out with their list of America's Top 10 Conservative Cities. Here's the list, so you don't have to look at their Bob Novak & Ann Coulter banner ads:
10. Cincinnati, Ohio ( Read more... )

From today's NYT: Once Boon, Ties to Bush May Be Bust.
NEW ALBANY, Ind., April 22 - Fate has turned Representative Mike Sodrel's re-election campaign into a test case of the impact of public discontent with President Bush and the war in Iraq ( Read more... )

ZOMG WTF?
BRAY, Okla. -- A man has caused an uproar in this southwestern Oklahoma town by advertising in an unusual manner that he'd like to pay for a virgin to be his bride.

A sign 45-year-old Michael Thelemann posted in his yard Sunday said he'll pay $1,000 for a virgin bride between the ages of 12 and 24.''I feel like I'm living down the street ( Read more... )

Your tax dollars at work, ladies & gentlemen! From Newsweek:
May 1, 2006 issue - Fresh from a bruising federal court fight over the teaching of evolution, Georgia marched back into the culture wars last week when Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill allowing Bible classes in public high schools. An estimated 8 percent of the nation's schools offer some ( Read more... )

From the AP: Small-Town USA Joins No-Smoking Trend. This makes me so happy.
LUVERNE, Ala. (AP) - If New York City can ban smoking in bars and restaurants, why not the town of Luverne ( Read more... )

South Carolina Republican wants to ban sex toys.
Lucy’s Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys.

But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states.

The South Carolina bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Ralph Davenport, would ( Read more... )

I swear, I read this 30 times before I realized the title was NOT Pink is the New Blog but in fact "Pink is the New Red". Stupid brain!
It seems that only yesterday American politics appeared to have found its true colors: Republican Red and Democratic Blue, the visual shorthand for an electorate that most thought had become immutably divided by ( Read more... )

You know, I actually get along with social conservatives better than many liberals. They might be deluded and think I'm going to hell for my sinful lifestyle, but in general? Most of them honestly care about their fellow man and believe they're doing the right thing.

But when I read stuff like this AP story, I just want to shake my socially ( Read more... )

Well, Utah and Kansas might still heart Dubya, but the rest of the country is finally starting to wise up to reality. From the Boston Globe, via HuffPo: Change of Heartland.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion unleashed a surge of pessimism at a local farmers' market here, where stalwart Republicans, standing amid aisles ( Read more... )