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October 9, 2006
One of the Talk to Action diaries has the text of a speech by Gary Lankford, president of the Ohio Restoration Project. Some of the statements in it are astonishingly ignorant. Like this one: For over 300 years in America, it was widely assumed that to be in public office, you needed to be a…
October 9, 2006
Stop and imagine for a moment what it would be like to be stoned to death - buried up to your chest with only your neck and head above ground and pelted with rocks (small ones so you don't die too quickly) until your flesh is ripped open and the pain is unbearable and you finally die. Now think…
October 8, 2006
Despite widespread criticism even from conservative scholars, Bush continues to issue ridiculous signing statements. The latest is on the homeland security bill passed recently, which included requirements that the FEMA director actually be qualified for the job. Since Bush apparently still thinks…
October 8, 2006
How much of a theocrat do you have to be to consider Bill O'Reilly anti-Christian? You have to be as out of your freaking mind as John Lofton. This actually sounds like something Jeff Foxworthy would say if you changed his famous catchphrase just a bit: If you think the guy who spends countless…
October 7, 2006
I'm off to Bloomfield Hills to play poker with my old debate pals and won't be back until Sunday afternoon. But I've got a few posts scheduled to go up so you all can keep busy arguing with each other.
October 7, 2006
Sen. Sam Brownback, locked in a continual battle with James Inhofe of Oklahoma for the title of the Senate's loopiest anti-gay member, is now holding up one of Bush's judicial nominees because of a story that she presided over a lesbian commitment ceremony 4 years ago. Judge Janet Neff has received…
October 7, 2006
AP reports: Guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as common practice, a Marine sergeant said in a sworn statement obtained by The Associated Press. The two-page statement was sent Wednesday to the Inspector General at the Department of Defense by a high-ranking…
October 7, 2006
Holy cow, if this report is true the Republicans are in serious trouble: House Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if House Speaker Dennis Hastert remains speaker until Election Day, according to internal polling data from a prominent GOP pollster, FOX News has learned. "The data…
October 6, 2006
In the wake of Bruce Chapman's public statement about the double secret probation research allegedly going on at a secret lair on a south pacific island comes this DI press release claiming to have funded millions of dollars worth of research. But notice how vague the wording is: "So we started the…
October 6, 2006
In Berkley, Michigan the city has erected a creche on the grounds of city hall for the past 65 years. Last year, the ACLU started making noise about a possible lawsuit, since the city pays for it and puts it up and does not allow any other religious displays, and now the city council is considering…
October 6, 2006
I thought this was quite funny. At the beginning of his daily press briefing yesterday, Tony Snow said the following: "I know a lot of you are going to want to hear all sorts of comments about what's going on on Capitol Hill," said Snow. "I will tell you what we have to say, and then you can ask…
October 6, 2006
Among the religious right leaders, almost no one can be counted on to, as Jon Stewart puts it, bring the crazy as consistently as Catholic League president Bill Donohue. You're gonna love his response to the possibility that Mark Foley was molested by a priest when he was a teenager: "As for the…
October 5, 2006
A speech at Columbia University by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was overrun by students who objected to his views on illegal immigration in a planned attack to shut down the event. The speech, sponsored by the College Republicans at the school, never took place. And the students…
October 5, 2006
Judge William Pryor has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal responding to recent arguments from Justice O'Connor concerning attacks on the judiciary (and perhaps to Judge Jones from the Dover trial as well, he has been saying much the same thing O'Connor has in speeches recently). Orin Kerr thinks…
October 5, 2006
Denyse O'Leary has a post defending Frank Beckwith's credentials from an anonymous attacker on her blog. The anonymous critic wrote: Beckwith is not a law professor. He does not have the requisite education to be a law professor. He has no juris doctorate. Therefore, he can only teach at the…
October 5, 2006
Good ol' Judge Roy Moore, the Christian supremacist former Alabama supreme court justice, thinks HR 2679 (which I refer to as the Tonya Harding bill - if you can't beat the ACLU in court, hobble them on the way up the steps) is a dandy idea. And you're gonna love the hypocritical rhetoric he uses…
October 5, 2006
It turns out the FBI had the Foley emails in July and did nothing about them: The FBI acknowledged yesterday that it did not begin an investigation in late July after receiving copies of e-mails sent in 2005 by then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a Louisiana teenager -- messages that troubled the boy'…
October 4, 2006
So last night I'm playing in a satellite at Poker Stars, trying to win a seat in their Sunday Million tournament (which I did, by the way, but I unregistered and took the tournament cash instead because I'll be out of town on Sunday). It's a rebuy tournament and I'm at the table with this guy whose…
October 4, 2006
In true Harry Potter style, Fox News magically transformed Mark Foley into a Democrat:
October 4, 2006
Agape Press reports on the "ecstatic" reaction of religious right groups: .Concerned Women for America (CWA) is applauding the passage of the Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act, a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona. The legislation prohibits the use of credit…
October 4, 2006
Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute provides us with the latest excuse for why ID has produced no supporting research: it's being done under double secret probation at an undisclosed location. He begins with this lurid metaphor: The most important is that the Darwinist establishment would like…
October 4, 2006
Things have been crazy the last couple days in the online gaming world. The response from various companies ranges from "maybe we can survive this" to "man the lifeboats". Party Poker has announced that if the president signs the bill (which is inevitable, and will likely happen in the next day or…
October 4, 2006
Buju Banton, a Jamaican reggae artist whose tour is being greeted with protests by gay rights supporters all over the country, says he's not a gay basher: "I have never bashed any gays before, and if I bashed gays, I bashed them 16 years ago," Banton tells Billboard magazine in an interview…
October 3, 2006
If you want to see partisan hackery on spectacular display, you have to see this post by Hugh Hewitt spinning the Foley situation. He's taking the tried and true tactic of blaming it all on the media and changing the subject: The Washington Times wants Speaker Hastert to resign. To do so would be…
October 3, 2006
I really must be getting old because my memory seems to be getting worse. I can't believe I didn't remember the Gerry Studds scandal, especially since the congressmen and bookmarks joke that I told the other day I first heard in the wake of that scandal (I was in high school at the time and taking…
October 3, 2006
STACLU has been busy adding new contributors lately. It appears that they've been seeking out every anti-ACLU crank they can find on the internet and asking them to post there. Unfortunately, the quality of the arguments and the level of intellectual honesty hasn't budged. A new contributor named…
October 3, 2006
A columnist for the St. Petersburg Times has a column on the mounting cost of the Iraq war. It's stunning to me that the "liberal media" hasn't made a bigger deal out of the fact that the White House was either completely clueless about what the war would require, in terms of both troop strength…
October 3, 2006
After yesterday's shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, CBS News gave Brian Rohrbough, father of one of the kids shot at Columbine in 1999, a forum to blame it all on evolution: When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last…
October 3, 2006
Over on the ADF's blog, Patrick Trueman is appalled by an article concering Anthony D'Amato's study that concluded that pornography may play a role in reducing rape. But this may be the most substanceless blog post you've ever seen. It contains one sarcastic remark followed by a red herring and…
October 2, 2006
A very amusing parody from Jim Burroway, The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing the Myths. Funny stuff.