You might notice on the right that I have a new sponsor, TerriPAC. The ad will be there for two weeks. Unlike the last ad, pushing the profoundly silly idea that 9/11 was staged, this is one I can really get behind. It's a political action committee set up by Michael Schiavo to fight against the manipulative and highly dishonest tactics of those who turned Terri Schiavo into a national political issue and to help make sure the same thing doesn't happen to someone else. I'm all for that. What the religious right did to both Michael and Terri Schiavo was an unconscionably cruel and disgusting display of divide-and-conquer politics, led by hypocrites and mountebanks like Larry Klayman and Tom Delay.
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