All those Mormons who are upset that their support of Proposition 8 in California — which took away the right of gay people to marry — is causing uncomfortable scrutiny of their quote unquote religion should take note. KnowThyNeighbor.org is going a step further by publishing the names of those who signed the petition to […]

Hillary Clinton should have just held on until the write-in votes were cast. At least that’s what the results in Jacksonville show.
Write-in votes were released by the Duval County Supervisor of Elections office today, and there were some surprising results. First, the tally reached 736. Second, George W. Bush got two votes in favor of […]

Bush administration insiders are lining up for the one handout they’ll need most after their team is out of office: a presidential pardon.
More than 2,300 people applied for a pardon or commutation in fiscal 2008, which ended Sept. 30, the largest number for any single year since at least 1900, according to Justice Department Statistics…
Bush […]

Forbidden?
A new poll in Florida leaves me mystified.
An amendment to the state constitution making gay marriage illegal (even though it’s already illegal under legislative statute) recently passed with 62 percent of the vote.
The new poll shows 89 percent of Floridians opposed to discrimination against gays. Huh?
Should gays and lesbians have the same rights as everyone […]

Pres. Lame W. Duck
Looks like Pres. Lame W. Duck will spend the last two months of his presidency the same way he spent the entire eight years: royally screwing things up.
Bush’s eleventh-hour changes would lift restrictions on commercial ocean fishing, ease controls on power plants’ emissions, relax drinking water standards, and loosen restrictions on dumping […]

O.K., lord knows I don’t want to make anyone have to watch more Sarah Palin than they already have. BUT. Take a look at about a minute or so of Palin’s address at the Republican Governor’s Conference:

Whoa! She forms complete sentences. She drops that faux-Fargo-Frances McDormand accent. She even tosses out the word, “plenary” as […]

Sorry for the short notice but we just found out ourselves. Simultaneous nationwide protests against California’s recently passed Proposition 8, which overturns a state law legalizing gay marriage, are set for tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Pacific (1:30 p.m. Eastern). To find out where to protest in your state and town, visit JoinTheImpact.com.
If you live in […]

With the rumors flying that Obama’s pick for secretary of state could be Sen. Hillary Clinton, we are of mixed mind. On the one hand, maybe it would finally shut up all those diehard Hillary fans out there (but I doubt it). On the other, one worries about the toll it would take on our […]

In the Last 45 Elections, Only Three Losing V.P. Nominees Have Gone on to Lead Tickets, And Only One of Them Won the Presidency
The 2008 election is barely a week old, but, predictably, the punditocracy has already moved on to 2012, filling the empty airwaves with speculation about the political future of Alaska Gov. Sarah […]