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As I was watching Rachel Maddow's opening segment tonight it brought to mind this comment from Huey Freeman on this morning's post about the Shirley Sherrod firing. Huey wrote:"...what I find to be the most troubling is the story that's not being covered, which is that the right is making a concerted effort play on people's racial fears to bring down the Obama Presidency...The right is playing a sinister game. Instead of trying to...

Is this what the powers that be in Washington have sunk to?:"Sherrod told CNN that the White House urged her to resign Monday afternoon after the video clip surfaced."They harassed me," she said. "I got three calls from the White House. At one point they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight." [...]Sherrod said the White House calls...

Newton's First Law states: An object's inertia causes it to continue moving the way it is moving unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force to change its motion. In the simplest of terms, this means an object (like a passive-aggressive GOP body politik) will always continue moving at its current speed (slowly or not at all as the party of "no"), and in its current direction (down into the muck) until some...

    Desperado sent me this gem from Media Matters: So... race relations were fine until people started "making it about slavery?"  Was he educated in Texas or South Carolina or something? I almost feel like I'm insulting my readers if I give you a detailed list of the pre-civil-war race clashes.  Of the free blacks that were captured, sold to slavery, beaten, children ripped from them and sold, and on and on and...

Something to look forward to if Republicans re-gain control of the House in November--impeachment. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the right-wing noise machine are revving up impeachment chatter over the allegations of Joe Sestak being offered an unpaid advisory position to stay out of the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania. Issa:"It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable,"...

If there is an afterlife, where the deeds done during one's time on earth are the basis for either reward or punishment, I wouldn't want to be one John Sidney McCain. His payment for unleashing upon an unsuspecting country the natural disaster known as Sarah Palin will surely be severe, and deservedly so.To use a comparison to another ongoing national tragedy, Sen. McCain drilled a well in a remote area without any means of shutting...

(Warning: While the following is somewhat connected to politics, it is in reality nothing more than a convenient excuse for an admittedly superficial male to post a photo of a beautiful (and I mean bee-yoo-ti-ful) young woman in a swimsuit. If that type of thing offends you, please stop here and do not scroll down). There is some controversy from some of the usual suspects on the far-right surrounding the crowning of Rima Fakih, Miss...

OK, it's official, we are through the looking glass on the treatment of suspected terrorists. Glenn Beck is the voice of reason and sanity. Yes, you read that right, Glenn Beck, reason, and sanity all in the same sentence. On Fox and Friends yesterday, Beck said of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born American citizen arrested in the attempted Times Square bombing: "He is a citizen of the United States, so I say we uphold the laws...

Just as the right scrambles to blame yesterday's plane crash into a building in Austin, TX as a left wing nutjob, about 600 people as of the time of this publication have joined a group called "the Philosophy of Joe Stack" on Facebook. The discussions on the page paint Stack as some kind of "hero" for committing an act of terrorism that " is no different than what was going on in this same land...

Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? In the aftermath of the failed attempt of the Christmas Day underpants (Fruit of the Boom?) bomber will we become the land of the strip-searched and the home of the paranoid? Apparently so. Let the overreacting, pantswetting, and cowering in fear commence. And let the newer, simpler Bill of Rights be written, "Whatever it takes to keep us safe."Under the new...