First-Time Voters and Voter Suppression, Oh My!
Early voting has started in Ohio, and already there’s voter registration problems brewing, one of which conveniently surrounds registered voters in urban, low-income areas. One of the lawsuits deals with a law adopted in 2005 that requires election officials to send out notices to voters 60 days before an election. As many as 600,000 of [...]
...read moreEid Mubarak!
Fauzia in the comments reminds us that today is also the end of Ramadan and the start of the Eid holidays. Hope everyone eats well tonight!
...read moreJust…wow
I thought that perhaps the Russia/foreign policy section of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric was just particularly bad. But: Nope.
...read moreL’shana Tova!
Or are you supposed to say “Shana Tova”? Either way, happy new year! Anyone celebrating? Anyone else have the day off?
...read moreWe are so fucked.
Holy shit.
...read moreUnfair!
Asking our potential Vice President questions about foreign policy? Totes not fair! Seriously, since when is a debate “stacked against” a Vice Presidential candidate by asking foreign policy questions? And does anyone think that Palin would all of a sudden morph into a Rhodes scholar if she were asked about the economy? Maybe the McCain [...]
...read moreHappy Banned Book Week!
I think this week should be dedicated to Sarah Palin, censorship advocate and vice presidential nominee. One thing I find particularly interesting about the Most Frequently Challenged Books/Authors list is that it’s one of the only “Top 10/Top 100″ literary lists I’ve ever read where almost half the authors are women. What’s your favorite banned [...]
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Paying Poor Women for Sterilization
This is absolutely disgusting. Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo is considering proposing a plan that would pay poor women $1,000 to be sterilized. He has said the program would be voluntary, could involve sterilization of both women and men, could encourage other forms of birth control, and could include tax incentives that would encourage people [...]
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PETA does it again
Other feminist bloggers have covered the PETA breast-milk campaign, and you should read their thoughts. And yes, it is obvious that PETA is doing its usual over-the-top schtick, and the campaign — which encourages Ben & Jerry’s to use human breast milk instead of cow milk to make their ice cream — is not meant [...]
...read moreThe Mortgage Crisis: Blame the Brown and Black People
Ann Coulter says that the mortgage crisis is caused by “affirmative action.” That is, efforts by the Clinton administration to prevent racial discrimination in lending led to a situation where: Instead of looking at “outdated criteria,” such as the mortgage applicant’s credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider [...]
...read moreBailout FAIL. Working Americans PWNED.
It seems as though Congress and the Bush administration are nearing approval of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. It was clear from the get go that low- and middle-income people were not going to be the winners here, no matter the specifics of the package; some details that are coming out now about [...]
...read moreThe stupid, it burns
Kathleen Parker suggests that David Zucker (director of Airplane!, The Naked Gun and Scary Movie 3) deserves a Nobel Prize because his latest film makes fun of Michael Moore. Are conservatives really that desperate for something funny and entertaining that also reflects their political ideology? Are the Left Behind books just not cutting it anymore? [...]
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