“Crazy Frog Axel F,” a cell phone ringtone, is set to top the British singles pop charts by this Sunday, knocking off Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound,” the band’s first single in two years. Retail-sales tracker HMV said Crazy Frog would be the first hit ringtone to cross over into the singles charts. According to HMV [...]

“The Koran needs to be flushed!” is the message a Baptist church in rural North Carolina is sending to the world. And the Christianist extremist preacher who runs the Danieltown Baptist Church says he would have no regrets if his message enflames violence in the Moslem world.
Rev. Creighton Lovelace told MSNB’s Keith Olbermann on the [...]

In the aftermath of the fillibuster finagle, the most common theme seems to be to say one side or the other “blinked.” Here’s one of the more twisted analyses so far, excerpted from an e-blast from that paragon of hyperconservative hyperbole, Richard Viguerie:

There is no question that, over the last 40 years, the federal courts [...]

Crackerjack press release today from the Florida House Democratic Caucus, sharing a memo from one House member to Gov. Jeb “I’m Such a Hypocrite I Can’t Believe It Myself” Bush.
Florida Media Outlets and Other Interested Parties:
Below you will find an e-mail that State Representative Tim Ryan (D-Dania Beach) sent to Governor Bush this [...]

What has become an annual controversy over gay pride took a new twist this year in my adopted hometown of St. Augustine, Florida. First, a little background.
The Bridge of Lions, so named for the giant marble statues at its base, flies flags from lightposts across the two-lane structure, which carries people to and from Anastasia [...]

The truth hurts. Rightwingers are such whiners. They always blame the messenger rather than dealing with the real problem:
Comedian Bill Maher’s mouth has landed him in hot water–again.
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) says Maher’s comment on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” May 13, that the U.S. military has already recruited all the “low-lying fruit,” [...]

Homophobia is alive and well in the Buffalo, New York, Jewish community, as evidenced by a local Jewish newspaper’s refusal to run an ad for a Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus performance at Temple Beth Zion in January. As a result, the synagogue has withdrawn its weekly advertising from the “Buffalo Jewish Review.”
Months of discussions between [...]

Yesterday I made the point that the GOP Senate leadership was pursuing the nuclear option because President Bush (a.ka. Karl Rove) wanted it done.
By ending the filibuster, President Bush meant to clear the way to pack the Supreme Court with wingnuts who will rule against privacy rights and in favor of corporate interests – [...]

CNN:
President Bush’s job approval rating dropped near its all-time low and Congress received poor marks as well in a national poll released Monday.
Forty-six percent of 1,006 adults polled over the weekend said they approved of the overall job Bush is doing, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
Over the past year, Bush’s rating has hovered near [...]

We should never forget that it is not Senate Majority Bill Frist who is leading the charge to destroy the institution of the US Senate. Neither is it the heads of the Family Research Council or other Talibani-American groups. While all these folks are complicit in the disaster that is about to befall all of [...]