In early 2006 no less. And the Wash Post has revealed that his staff knew about it in the fall of last year. Yet nothing was done about it.
Now, of course Hastert is saying that he only found out about this story last week, but the problem he’s running into is that not only has [...]

When you have a Republican like Armey slamming James Dobson on Newsmax.com, you know things are bad in the Grand Old Party.
Dick Armey on the sad state of conservatism:
In an interview with Ryan Sager, author of the book “The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party,â€Â? Armey said [...]

An explanation here.

I have to hand it to the religious right. They do their homework and this is a very sneaky, effective way to limit suits against religious encroachment on public systems.
Erwin Chemerinsky has the story:
A federal statute, 42 United States Code section 1988, provides that attorneys are entitled to recover compensation for their fees if they [...]

Have these people ever heard of a circus?

There’s very little else a guy like me can take from a title like State of Denial. It supposes what the mindset of a President is like who is notorious for having a dearth of intellectual curiousity. Denial also speaks to an unexplainable inability to venture outside of a small circle of ideological immobile neo-cons. [...]

Republican prospects for retaining a House majority had been looking up since Labor Day. Most prognosticators projected Democrats to win a slim majority of the House seats or come within a few seats of majority. However, several Republican mishaps may cost them the House this November.
Consider three seats that in any year should be [...]

While I applaud the intentions of the following program, it almost seems unfair that the state is putting resources toward getting criminals jobs when I’m sure their are non-criminals who would desperately like a job.
From NPR:
Instead of jail, judges in Lancaster County, Pa., have a new option for sentencing criminals: Get a job and [...]

But now I’m going to tell everybody I know not to either…

Jeezus GM, what are you thinking? Great American?
*sigh*

If you haven’t heard about the brewing scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), an underage page and sexual explicit IM sessions yet, here’s the lowdown.
Read up? Okay, now then…
It appears as if some in the GOP knew of this a while ago, but did nothing about it. Obviously, if this is true, it’s pretty appalling.
From [...]

A good interview…and some keen insights into why so many “moderates” don’t want to be labelled as such.

The concept of morality is a complex topic that elicits passion and consternation as people of differing beliefs attempt to validate their own particular versions. I’ve always found it a little odd that God would only provide us with Ten Commandments when it should have been obvious that we would need an abundance of guidance [...]

The Iraqis are free to pass any laws they want, of course. But is this what we envisioned when we invaded?
Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public [...]

I’ve got my own takes on the detainee bill and the warrantless wiretapping bill. But Matthew Yglesias at the American Prospect asks an interesting question: Has the U.S. become a rogue state?
Agree or not, it’s a thought-provoking read.

The Iraqi people want us dead.

About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, a poll finds.

Six in ten. So an IED goes off in a Baghdad neighborhood and ten Iraqis look out of [...]

First, a few words:
The American people often have been equally ready to discard conventional wisdom by rewarding independence and those candidates who, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, show “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind.” [...]
Instead, we had George W. Bush, a president who has governed on party-line votes and who, [...]

Does this sound like the kind of politician you could live with?
From the Wash Post:
Just 10 months after California voters rejected all four of the ballot initiatives he put before them and sent his personal approval ratings crashing to dangerous depths, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is riding high, poised to win a full term come [...]

“The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don’t think he deserves it…I don’t think President Bush deserves it. The people who deserve blame for Sept. 11, I think we should remind ourselves, are the terrorists -the Islamic fanatics-who [...]

The question I asked on September 6 was Did We Just Lose?
Now right-wing pundit Tony Blankley essentially agrees with that headline and leads me to a question for which I have, unfortunately, a ready answer.
With little reporting, and almost without media or governmental comment, the United States has suffered a substantial defeat in the war [...]

As much as I think it’s a bad idea, you can’t disagree with a poll that says 7 out of every 10 Iraqis want us gone within a year.
From World Public Opinion:
A new WPO poll of the Iraqi public finds that seven in ten Iraqis want US-led forces to commit to withdraw within a year. [...]