Planned Parenthood has an independent ad out appropriately chastising the McPalin campaign for their gutter ad suggesting that there’s something terribly wrong for Senator Obama’s support of legislation designed to help protect children from sexual predators. Me likes. Of course one of my commenters suggests that kids getting raped is their parents’ fault. Nice. I’ll go on the record here […]

Rick Santorum thinks you should be supporting Sarah Palin. ‘Cause, you know, you have vaginas and stuff. Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists. The civil rights community, the African-American community obviously should have rallied behind Clarence Thomas an his achievement, but they hammered him because he was a conservative. And the civil rights establishment was first and foremost […]

Aren’t those virulently uber-right wing Freepers a charming bunch? They love this country and, more importantly DEMOCRACY, that they are willing to completely subvert it and interfere in the DEMOCRATIC process. Let’s do some “Community Organizin’” to sink Obambi’s Campaign! Takes 5 minutes! Do it from home!!Barack Obambi web site ^ | 9/6/2008 | politicket Posted on Saturday, September 06, […]

The McCain campaign has been gleefully deriding the Obama campaign for reputedly throwing away tens of thousands of small American flags from their convention. Fox News was on the scene to make sure this trip got wide circulation “The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there,” Fox News reported, “and they […]

I have completely HAD it with people crying “SEXISM!” any time a female candidate running for President or Vice President is criticized or attacked. Hillary Clinton’s campaign did it when she got hammered (despite her own hammering ways) and now the McCain campaign is doing it to defend Sarah Palin. The McCain camp is pushing back hard against the notion […]

This is over the top stuff right here, kids. My friend, Doug, a former inhabitant of the Twin Cities, sent me a link to Glen Greenwald’s reporting for Salon.com on multiple raids that have happened over the past couple of days of peaceful protesters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for the Republican National Convention. Greenwald’s most excellent (and multiply-updated) Salon […]

Are you fucking kidding me??? This week the Democratic party will attempt to hold its first convention that is totally green. They will talk about recycling, buying carbon offsets, and even serve multi-colored foods for some reason…Take part in our carbon ONset program. We are asking you to make just a few small sacrifices to completely wipe out any potential […]

Pundits have been criticizing Senator Obama for going on vacation now, rather than later during the Republican convention when he’s unlikely to get much press anyway. BTW, here’s a shot of the good Senator chillin’ in the “foreign, exotic” locale of Hawaii (yes, NPR’s Cokie Roberts actually called the state of Hawaii “foreign” and “exotic”“): More vacation photos HEREBut I […]

Honestly, why the hell is everyone worried about talk of increasing corporate tax rates? Turns out most of them don’t pay any anyways. Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 percent of […]

I assumed that if you break a law, it’s “crime”. Kinda by definition, right? Not according to our Attorney General, Michael Mukasey. Turns out he’s NOT going to prosecute Justice Department staffers who broke laws regarding hiring practices that involved political considerations. Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to […]

Bob Cesca is one of my favorite political writers these days and THIS COLUMN is particularly on target. Check it out. It’s brilliant. I’m just sayin’…