Around 2003 or so, an old boss and I took a side-trip on the way to a meeting to the church he attended. He was a bit younger than me, a devout evangelical Christian, a youth pastor and a pretty decent guy. He knew I didn’t share his particular brand of faith (full disclosure – [...]

Newt Gingrich, like many other Americans on the far right, has a problem with Mosques, more specifically the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero. This doesn’t come as a shock in the least, his reasoning (H/T Justin Elliott at Salon) is that there aren’t any churches in Saudi Arabia and also, New [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard about the writer who moved in next door to Sarah Palin? Apparently he is in the midst of some kind of scandalous tell all book about her and has taken up residence in her hometown in pursuit of stories.
Resorting to her characteristic histrionics, Palin immediately took to her [...]

In a move that will probably dog him for months to come, the President drew parallels between the BP oil disaster and 9/11. In an interview with Politico, Obama said “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going [...]

A U.S. Senator recently proved he was all grown into the modern age by telling the country he can use a credit card to buy his own gas and groceries. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) admitted he was unfamiliar with ATMs when asked to opine on whether ATM fees should be capped at .50 cents. He [...]

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin pointed out how radically our concept of civil liberties and privacy has changed over the years at a press conference when he helped unveil the BELIEVE system, another step towards a national ID card. The proposed legislation would require anyone who plans to work in the United States would have to [...]

Last week, Real Time With Bill Maher featured, among other guests, Matthew Continetti, editor of the Weekly Standard. Normally, another right wing talking head spitting rhetoric on television wouldn’t be anything to comment on, but Continetti’s arguments were enough to make me smack my head into my laptop monitor a few extra times than normal. [...]

The GOP, tea party activists and other assorted right wing conservatives love to appear as champions of the “common man.” They throw out words like “main street” in a folksy drawl while talking about the troops and sacrifices other Americans make, bemoaning the scary modern age while pining for the better days of yesteryear. They’re [...]

Sometimes, people come so close to hitting the mark but miss big.

Mark Dice, conspiracy theorist and Alex Jones acolyte, would like people to boycott the Super Bowl on Sunday and “read a book.” On the surface, I both understand and to an extent, completely agree. Before unweildy mobs of football fans show up at my [...]