Is this bad or good? James Dobson, the maniacal fundamentalist (notice how that word has “mental” in it?) preacher beat out Howard Stern for inclusion in the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program is the first religious program to receive the honor, started in 1992 by the Chicago-based Museum of […]

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
— George Orwell (1903-1950), English writer

Pollster John Zogby’s new Electoral College analysis gives Barack Obama 273 EC votes to John McCain’s 146. Zogby says 119 votes are too close to call at this point in the election cycle.
Here are the latest changes and Zogby’s analysis on the Zogby Electoral College map:
Arkansas changes from purple to red: “It may look […]

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American writer, editor

Say you’re Al Franken. Your idol was Sen. Paul Wellstone, a man who exemplified what was right with America and with America’s Democratic system of government. But Paul Wellstone died, and his alter-ego from hell took his seat: a man whose only ideas are those placed in his head by the Bush neocons, who voted […]

If you thought you could escape political ads by watching the Olympics, we have some bad news. A presidential candidate has bought $5 million in ads. The good news is, it’s Barack Obama!
Will this make him the Official Presidential Candidate of the U.S. Olympics?
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC […]

Is this the future for Florida?
A chemical tanker collided today with a fuel barge from one of three nearby refineries in the Mississippi River near New Orleans, causing the barge to split in half and spill 420,000 gallons of oil into the waterways.
A sheen at least 12 miles long spread down river, and the Louisiana […]

Presidencies are about looking forward, not backwards, so it was predictable that Barack Obama would signal that, if elected, he would have little interest in prosecuting the criminal acts of the current administration.
If Nixon had been imprisoned, it’s doubtful that 30 years later Dick Cheney would have opted to exchange his seat as the […]