The parents of Ryan Skipper, a Central Florida man stabbed to death and dumped on the side of the road earlier this year because he was gay, have a question for the Republicans running for president. Will you take responsibility for the hate and savagery your party has used to manipulate its base into condemning […]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
— Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author

Mike Huckabee may have unintentionally created a masterpiece in the art of campaign ads on television. His new ad, on the air in Iowa, is so bad it may just be the “Plan 9 from Outer Space” of campaign advertising.
It is so unspeakably bad that it should automatically disqualify him from high office. No […]

There are still millions of gay couples who don’t self-identify on census forms, but this is a good start:
In Fort Worth, Texas, the number of reported same-sex couples rose from 196 in 1990 to 2,254 in 2006, giving Fort Worth the 22nd highest concentration of gay couples in the United States.
The report by the […]

It appears that Yankees are impervious to Fred Thompson’s charms:
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson has skidded into sixth place in a new CNN/WMUR poll of likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, edged out by ex-Libertarian and anti-war congressman Ron Paul and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Thompson “has trailed the GOP front-runners in early voting […]

“Should I give little Mary the latest Shakira CD and little Johnny the Resident Evil 4 game, and thereby offend the Lord God our Father in Heaven and condemn myself and my children to everlasting suffering in the lower depths of Hell?”
According to the latest Barna Group survey, Bible-banging parents across the land will be […]

John McCain is taking his presidential campaign to Iraq for Thanksgiving. The move can’t help but provoke memories of the 2003 visit from that other turkey, the one McCain has been apologizing and carrying water for since he ran against him in 2000.
Bush, if you recall, touched down at a makeshift military base at […]

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about us, we’ll stop telling the truth about them.
— Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American politician

Here’s a nifty little time-waster that actually isn’t (a waste of time). FreeRice.com donates grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Program to hungry people all over the world. But it only makes these donations if you play a multiple-choice vocabulary game first. The more words you get right, the more rice is […]