Disturbing distortions: I suppose it would be way too much to ask Donald Wildmon, head of the arch-conservative, hyper-religious American Family Association, not to lie. When it comes to pushing his homophobic agenda, facts become irrelevant in his efforts to stir up his constituents about hot-button issues.
If this Thought Crimes law passes, your right [...]

Saturday would have been Ryan Skipper’s 26th birthday. His family and friends are holding a memorial in Atlanta:
Saturday, April 28, 2007
1:00pm
First Metropolitan Community Church
1379 Tullie Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
404-325-4143
For more information on attending Ryan’s vigil and other ways you can help please contact Melinda Morgan by email or at (404) 327-9898.
Ryan Skipper was viciously murdered [...]

Back in the Clinton era, Rep. Bob Barr filed articles of impeachment against Pres. Clinton in the fall of 1997, fully a year before the momentum was in place to proceed to the actual impeachment. Keep that in mind as you read this:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a candidate for president, introduced articles of impeachment against Vice [...]

You remember Monica Goodling — she was the highest ranking among the 150 the Christian Nationalist plants inside the Dept. of Justice who said she would take the Fifth instead of testifying before Congress about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year. Why? Because, she said, otherwise she would be forced to lie [...]

“Believers” tend to believe in God’s vengeance for their enemies, but in God’s mercy for themselves.
— Sydney J. Harris

Shades of 9/11: Lest we forget that “America’s Mayor” was all over the media following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani has identified Americans’ abiding fear of terrorists in our midst as an issue on which to base his campaign for prez. He was talking tough yesterday in New Hampshire:
‘The freedoms we have are [...]

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See the video at Huffington Post.

Double standard: On the Today Show this morning, First Lady Laura Bush was asked what she thought about the damage the war in Iraq was doing to the American people. Her answer, which came without a pause, may have been revelatory:
ANN CURRY: Do you know the American people are [...]

Only in the George Bush years could something like this happen.
The Office of Special Counsel, charged with enforcing both the Civil Service Act and the Hatch Act, is looking into the firing of New Mexico federal attorney and Navy Reserve Capt. David Iglesias. If you recall, Iglesias was fired after Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) called [...]

I got an interesting note from my friend Judy today:
We made the correct decision to fly our flags at half mast when the students were murdered last week. What is the difference between their promising young lives of the students and the daily deaths of young soldiers in a wasted war? Shouldn’t our flags fly [...]

Pathetic: While he waits for his trial on corruption-related charges to begin, Tom DeLay is out promoting his book. (I seriously can’t think of the title and don’t feel like looking it up.) Sales must not be going well because today he stole a page out of Ann Coulter’s playbook and emitted something deeply controversial [...]