I am seriously grateful that Archbishop Chaput is not my bishopThe title of this article is misleading: Catholics didn't "buck advice" from the bishops, but rather from a few who obviously have become full-time campaigners for the Republican Party. As it says way down at the bottom of the article, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said that ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously?Are the Republicans stupid? I don't see how these people can criticize Obama's pick when Bush's two Chiefs of Staff were just as partisan if not more so. I'm sure they'd be happier if he chose Joe Liebermann for the position, but he really does need somebody for this job who is forceful and knows which party he's working for. It ( Read more... )

Pretty cool, huh? Obviously some people on here aren't going to think so, but I do. I mean, thank God that it was a decisive victory. I think that we can all agree that a repeat of the last two elections with disputed states and bare minimums for victory would have been a bad thing. Regardless of who won, we had to have a clear victor or there ( Read more... )

Did you?

Tomorrow is the day. Everybody out there (except, of course, those of you who don't live in the US or who are ineligible) should get out and vote. Regardless of who you're planning to vote for, go out and participate in the democratic process because that's what democracy is all about. If you're expecting that your party will win your state easily ( Read more... )

Wow, so the board whose members she could fire sided with her? What a shocker.Did anybody ever think that she would get an unfavorable outcome from this panel? It would be like allowing the Enron executives to be tried by their employees. The legislature's panel was obviously the less biased one, but all you'll hear about today and tomorrow is how ( Read more... )

November 4th, 2008.

Vote or don't complain.

Seriously, if you don't vote then you can't complain when things go horrible wrong. Foreign citizens are, of course, exempted from this rule.

If you don't know where you're supposed to vote, go here or here to find out.

I thought that they were trying to come up with reasons why we shouldn't vote for ObamaSeriously, perhaps socialism is just what we need right now. We've seen for the past eight years (and really for almost the past 30, since Reagan and "trickle down" economics) what the other extreme leads to, perhaps we need to try this one out for a while. I ( Read more... )

Listening to John McCain is infuriating, all he does is spout the same talking points and refuse to actually say anything of substance. He just got finished talking about William Ayers and ACORN, both of which could just as easily be used to condemn Republicans who have worked with them for good purposes, and now he changes the subject to taxes ( Read more... )

As if we didn't know this alreadyI think that it was obvious that she abused her power, it's rarely a coincidence when somebody gets fired after angering their boss. She obviously used the power of her office to pursue a personal vendetta, and frankly I think that they should have pursued more harsh punishment for her such as impeachment because ( Read more... )