In their apparently rabid defense of "traditional" marriage, the proponents of California's attempt to enshrine discrimination in the state constitution have apparently decided to threaten businesses who've given money to EQCA.

The Republicans are projecting again.

It seems Palin has solved the whole balancing-work-and-family thing: she bills the Alaskan government to take her kids with her, even when they weren't invited. Just the kind of fiscal responsibility and strong oversight we need in a Vice President serving under a President with cancer.

From celandineb, who got it from juniperus, who got it from a_d_medievalist, who nicked it from pisicaAs was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade ( Read more... )

In an interview with the Des Moines Register, John McCain stated that he "always aspired" to be a dictator. To hear it for yourself, click on the third of the little McCain-faces: "Economic Bill Failure".

The White House has been planning this bailout for months. Which explains why they're so insistent that nothing Wall Street doesn't like be added to it: it's not a reaction to the current crisis, it's a way to enrich the already-wealthy at taxpayer expense.

PBS is conducting a poll. As I write this, "yes" is leading "no" 53-47.

Anyone with an interest in US politics should read mizkit's post on Sarah Palin. Rather than attacking Sarah Palin for having supported the "Bridge to Nowhere," if we're going to talk about that bridge, we should be attacking her for her claims that she never blinks on important issues and pointing out how she's breaking a campaign promise. She told the ( Read more... )

In this day and age, when we have so many examples of how disasterous arbitrary divisions along racial/ethnic lines can be, it's appalling that "20 percent of all [W]hites said the word "violent" strongly applied" to most Blacks. I'm going to cry in November, I know it...

Via celandineb, what she said.