An excerpt from the Hug the South rant:
Southern America has a lot of North in it, and more of it every year. People aren’t shuffling off to Buffalo anymore; they’re sloughing off Buffalo and moving to sunnier climes. Out of the top ten states that Americans are moving out of, nine are Northern (and the […]

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They found that George W. Bush and John McCain agree on an overwhelming majority of the issues - 80 percent. You don’t get much closer than that, so yes, it’s very fair to say that a vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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A mysterious organization calling itself “Hillary Responders” appeared over this past weekend on the world wide web. The purpose of the website, which proclaims it is not directly connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign, is to provide “talking points” for Clinton supporters on their blogs, on talk radio shows, in letters to the editor […]

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Senator Edward Kennedy skewered George W. Bush’s rhetoric on surveillance without a warrant, corporations, and the value of human life in a speech to the Senate on December 17, 2007:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress […]

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In the NPR Presidential Debate of December 4 2007, Democratic presidential candidates were confronted with the sentiment of a North Carolina resident:
We mentioned that we’ve been taking questions from listeners in recent weeks about this debate, and one is on a small issue that, I think, points to a large concern. It comes from Tally […]

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire said it centuries ago, but it still holds true today. There’s a group of authoritarians in our country who are doing everything they can to make you afraid of things that almost certainly will not harm you, like terrorist bombs. […]

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee may have refused to answer a question about Jesus’ position on the Death Penalty in a November 2007 debate, but he had no compunction about answering such a question back in 1997. Back then, on a radio program, Mike Huckabee argued that because Jesus didn’t ask for clemency when […]

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In the Republican YouTube debate of November 2007, presidential candidates Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee noted that they were in favor of the death penalty. Tancredo and Huckabee were then asked regarding the death penalty, “What Jesus Would Do?”
Neither one answered. That they were asked this question demonstrates yet again that religious tests […]

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Why is it time for a progressive president? Most Americans hold the progressive position on the issue of habeas corpus. 70% of Americans say they want the next American president dedicated to “restoring habeas corpus rights for people held at Guantanamo.” The Republicans haven’t shown an interest in restoring habeas corpus. Centrist Democrats haven’t […]

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