Only Democrats, it seems, reward their most loyal supporters — feminists, gays, liberals, opponents of the war, members of the reality-based community — by elbowing them aside to embrace their opponents instead.
– Katha Pollitt (b. 1949), in a Los Angeles Times column on Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren, a prominent homophobe and misogynist, to [...]

SCRUBBED: “Someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member as Saddleback Church”
Yesterday, BeliefNet reported that the website for Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, Cal., contained a warning that unrepentant gays were forbidden from joining the church:
Because membership in a church is an outgrowth of accepting the [...]

Corporate socialism has now officially run amok. According to a report from the Associated Press, as much as $1.6 billion of the taxpayer funded $350 billion bank bailout fund has gone directly to top executives at America’s leading financial institutions.
Even at banks where compensation was reduced, executives still received millions in salary, bonuses and [...]

In one of his earliest and most successful attempts to piss off the world and connect Iraq to the 9/11 attacks, Pres. George W. Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the “axis of evil,” and imposed sanctions intended to isolate them. Subsequent Bush-Cheney-Rice “diplomacy” has consisted of further punishing states with which they disagree [...]

The news cycle last week presented something of a see-saw ride for gays and their supporters in California and the nation. First came the devastating news that Barack Obama had invited Rick Warren, one of California’s most prominent advocates of anti-gay Proposition 8, to give the opening prayer at his inauguration next month.
“Proposition 8 [...]

According to Bloomberg News, George Bush’s recent brush with hurled shoes has spurred a spike in sales of the increasingly popular footwear hurled at the increasingly unpopular president:
The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran.
The brown, thick-soled [...]

UPDATE: Aug. 16, 2010: The video I posted here in 2008 has been removed by YouTube, and the video from BeliefNet does not work. I found a clip from GoodAsYou.org that features Warren’s “money quote” and am posting it to replace the original.
You don’t have to dig too deep to find bigoted statements by [...]

Want to throw a shoe at George W. Bush? How about a dead fish, a slice of pizza or Saddam Hussein’s head or the entire state of Florida? Well, you can by simply going here and playing Duck Bush Dick.

It’s hard to tell, hard to imagine what it’s like to go from 100 miles an hour to 5. I’m going to want to build a policy institute at Southern Methodist, probably write a book. And beyond that, I’m open for suggestions.
— President George W. Bush, in the upcoming issue of People magazine, on what [...]

This is really bad:
Warren has admitted that the main difference between himself and the virulent homophobe James Dobson is a matter of tone.
Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges [...]