R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The novel (argument)
I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible. To me that...
View ArticleCountry Joe says hello
I wrote "Fixin’ To Die Rag" in the summer of 1965 after I had been discharged from the US Navy for several years. It just popped into my head one day and I finished it in about 30 minutes. I did not...
View ArticleMcShame's sick Chelsea joke
From the LA Times today: A top McCain advisor, former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina, met last week with dozens of Clinton loyalists in Ohio. On Saturday, she joined McCain in a...
View ArticlePBS minus P = BS
Washington Week's future has been in question only once during its existence. In 1972 the Nixon administration, citing Washington Week specifically, generated intense pressure against public affairs...
View ArticleGerson world's worst person?
In his column today in the Washington Post, former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson rips Al Franken for his 2000 piece in Playboy magazine, a satirical piece in praise of pornography (and no, I'm...
View ArticleSpare the rod...Why I'm voting Republican
A good Christian father works hard to educate his 13-year-old son in the ways of Our Lord Jesus. He sends the boy to Greenville Christian Academy and Trinity Baptist School, and for summer vacation, he...
View ArticleGonzo, Gonads & the College GOP
Nothing gets a young man's attention like visualizing testicles crushed in a vise. Last February, when Alberto Gonzales spoke at Washington University in St. Louis, there were campus protests about...
View ArticleMom eyes first Dem vote in 60 years
My former employer in red state South Dakota wrote me a note yesterday commenting on Billary's visits there. He called the Clintons "tenacious."He's from a long line of Republicans and is quite...
View ArticleNY Times makes nice with GOP plagiarism
A story in today's New York Times on the nomination of Michael O'Neill to be a federal district judge is interesting. Even more interesting are the pair of headlines the paper put above Adam Liptak's...
View ArticleProgressive radio success story
Are you looking to forge a national community of Progressive Radio activists? Would you like to come together and conspire with others who care just as much about securing the future of Progressive...
View ArticleWoman's last wish: You vote Blue
From the obituary of Madison, Wis., resident Katherine J. Damon, 83, who died July 29: As passionate in her politics as with all else in her life, no one was more devoted to the cause and candidates of...
View ArticleThe speech Hillary must give
Thank you SO much. I love you all SO much. And I truly appreciate how so many of you stood by me so faithfully through the long campaign season. But now it is time, and I say this from the bottom of my...
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1 Saddleback pic worth 1,000 words
FROM LEFT: Kay Warren (wife of Pastor Rick Warren), Cindy McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, at the Compassion Forum.(Associated Press)Do you remember that song,...
View ArticleFlashback: Reagan's debate cheat sheet
I just heard Mike Malloy talk about the theft of President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers in 1980 and Malloy's sardonic "We're Republicans. We wouldn't cheat!"Well, they certainly did but it didn't...
View ArticleSen. Obama, call me collect!
I'm getting scared at these polls that show downward trends for Barack Obama. And I'm getting angry at the thought of my beautiful daughters growing up in the midst of yet another rich, clueless...
View ArticleHey McCains, cheetahs never win!
When the truth came out about Mother Teresa's "non-conversation" with Cindy McCain on the adoption of her daughter Bridget from an orphanage in Bangladesh, it sent me searching for instances where Mrs....
View ArticleMcCain lied about health care
Sen. John McCain in his speech Sept. 4 accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination: My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance....
View ArticleDon't underestimate Palin
If you think that Joe Biden is going to make mincemeat of Sarah Palin in a debate or that she is going to stumble in interviews with journalists, think again. My cousin wrote me this morning: (My...
View ArticleSomething rotten in the state of Wisconsin
Republican J.B. Van Hollen is Wisconsin's top cop. Thursday in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon he warmed up the crowd before John McCain and Sarah Palin took the stage. The Oshkosh Northwestern...
View ArticleVirgin voter at age 69
The way he pulled in and parked his car and strode purposefully toward my voter registration table on a strip mall sidewalk made me think it was a Republican ready to berate me for practicing democracy...
View ArticleDavid Gregory slept with Fannie Mae exec
They even had children together. But it's OK. They were married. What may not have been so OK was for Gregory to report on Fannie Mae without disclosing he was married to Beth Wilkinson. Maybe at some...
View ArticleMcCains For Obama: Don't shame the name
God only knows how many people named McCain really support Barack Obama. (Given his vile temper, pettiness and self-absorption, John McCain might be surprised at how many. Call it the McCain Effect.)...
View ArticleGuys, and ghouls! McCrypt scares baby
Most politicians kiss babies. Not John McCain. He hold them at arm's length and scares the bejesus out of them. A case in point was Saturday at a rally in New Mexico, where friends became just folks....
View ArticleStores pull 'Islamic' Cuddle & Coo dolls
Guys, and dolls, beware: Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Cuddle & Coo™ doll may be hazardous to your child's love of all that is wholly Jesus. Stores in Mitchell, South Dakota (the home of the World's...
View ArticleChair of local GOP pleads anonymity
Mike Herl is the polar opposite of Sarah Palin. If it were up to him, you wouldn't even know his name. And while Palin seems to revel in saying anything that comes into her head, Herl doesn't do word...
View ArticleLet's not forget these 935 lies
OK, the Center for Public Integrity didn't really call them lies but nicely termed them "false statements." We might now just call them "enhanced truth."
View ArticleSchiavo's brother stumps on health care
The Associated Press reports that Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo's brother, is on the stump today in Wisconsin:
View ArticleWherein a wealthy right-wing sister rants
I'm 60 and live in the Upper Midwest. My sister is 68 and lives in southern California. I like pie, she likes cake. I'm left of center and she's way far right. We've been worlds apart politically ever...
View ArticleA close shave with Dennis Miller
On my noon hour I listen to the "Ed Schultz Show" on progressive radio. During commercial breaks I switch to Ed's polar opposite Dennis Miller, who perhaps never met a right-winger he doesn't like....
View ArticleFlashback: Universal health care — for Iraq
On the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, let's jump in our trusty little time machine and set the dial to March 3, 2004: WASHINGTON — Fresh from a two-day weekend visit...
View ArticleSomething amiss with anti-Obama Fla. urologist
I heard Alan Colmes interview the Florida doctor, Jack Cassell, Friday night and was struck by Cassell's cluelessness. But first, the inside urology ditty referred to in the diary headline: "There's...
View ArticleWhat if they gave a climate rally that didn't serve tea?
The lede, an hour or so ago, from Jane Lorber's blog Green in the New York Times: Several thousand people gathered Sunday on the National Mall in Washington to observe the 40th anniversary of Earth Day...
View ArticleObama-hating pastor acquitted in Ariz. border incident
You may remember how Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., entered the national consciousness in 2009 when his "Why I hate Barack Obama" sermon surfaced. Now, Anderson...
View ArticleRacist Minn. editor issues 'if I' apology
Lily-white Lake Crystal, Minn., 12 miles from Mankato, has about 2,600 people and one ignoramus who owns and edits its newspaper, the Tribune, which has no website. It's tough sometimes to fill the...
View Article'Watchdog' Issa wants your photos!
We call the law that put people back to work and kept others on the job the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Watchdog, calls it the "failed stimulus" and he's...
View ArticleSen. Ron Johnson, R(ich)-Wis., schedules meetings
His name is Ron Johnson, he comes from Wisconsin. Rookie teaparty Sen. Ron Johnson, who took Russ Feingold's seat in 2010, has released his schedule of "mobile office hours" next week at several...
View ArticleWhat does the 2008 Wisconsin 'virgin voter' think now?
I wish I'd written down his name, so I could call him in Wisconsin to ask him what he thinks now. I wrote the diary titled "Virgin voter at age 69" on Sept. 27, 2008. About a dozen people commented....
View ArticleOshkosh workers reject 5-year wage freeze — lockout looms
The lede, from tonight's Oshkosh Northwestern:Members of United Auto Workers Local 578 overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer that would essentially freeze take home pay for five years, with 85...
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