Screenshot of anti-Tiller webpage that provides the name, address and phone number of Dr. Tiller’s church
Two attacks in churches by right-wing Christianist terrorists in the last 10 months may not yet qualify as a trend, but there is an undeniable resonance between these attacks and the practice of right-wing Islamic terrorists to attack in mosques. [...]

“And remember, one of al Qaeda’s goals — it’s not just to attack the United States. It’s to prove that we’re hypocrites, that we don’t live up to American principles. So when we use torture and abuse, we’re playing into one of their stated goals.”

On the one hand, you can see why any comparison on the Republican National Committee’s part between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and James Bond character Pussy Galore would be just…yucky.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah): “I thought it was reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive.”
After viewing an RNC video that juxtaposed the speaker with the James Bond
villainess, Rep. Jason Chaffetz [...]

From Pres. Obama’s interview on “60 Minutes” last Sunday:
“The whole premise of Guantanamo promoted by Vice President Cheney was that somehow the American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists.”- Pres. Obama
STEVE KROFT: A week ago Vice President Cheney said essentially that your willingness to shut down Guantanamo [...]

There’s a great campaign going on in India against a very, very bad campaign. It takes as its symbol the pink “chaddi,” or “underwear” in several Indian languages, and seeks to fight the Taliban-style oppression by both Hindus and Muslims that leads to things like the recent Mumbai massacre. Sourahb Mishra explains.
Right-wing Hindu organizations have, [...]

Oh man. I see why no one wants to give former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a job. His memory, missing in action during his testimony to Congress on Justice Department malfeasance, is back. And the way he remembers it, he did a heckuva job. In an interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown, Gonzales was just amazing.

His [...]

Joan Walsh at Salon says Republicans are winning the media war over the economic stimulus package.
This had merely been a stupid GOP talking point until 10 minutes ago; now it’s becoming a stupid media talking point. Funny how that works.
…the stimulus fight is tougher than it should be for Democrats. Clearly the best ally the [...]

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

We here at Pensito Review pride ourselves on our ability to toss about the well-worn cliché with the best of them, but even we have a limit to what we can stomach in polite conversation or, worse yet, everyday basic communicative writing that is intended to convey meaning and emotion. Hence our joy at seeing [...]

After George Bush invaded Iraq, it could be said that al Qaeda had him right where they wanted him: Entangled in the occupation of a country whose culture he could not fathom, wasting U.S. blood and treasure at an unconscionable rate in order to secure Iraq’s oil for U.S. and multinational corporations, undermining American credibility [...]