Nice: Sen. Ken Salazar said Wednesday he regrets referring to Focus on the Family and its founder James Dobson as “the Antichrist” – a term among the worst slurs in Christianity. Salazar issued a statement Wednesday evening, backing down from a remark he made Tuesday night during an audio interview aired on KKTV of Colorado …
Archives for April 2005
The N-Word
This is going to make the irrational Earth Firsters insane: With gasoline prices up and his political standing down, President Bush on Wednesday proposed several new energy initiatives, including the novel idea of using shuttered military bases as sites for oil refineries. The president directed the federal agencies to work with communities to see if …
Abortion Politics
It looks like Republicans have finally found a big business they won’t cozy up to: Big Abortion: The House passed a bill on Wednesday making it a federal crime for any adult to transport an under-age girl across state lines to have an abortion without the consent of her parents. A vote on a similar …
Quite Literally, Pay as You Go
Interesting: It is a California still life. In this land of mobile ambition and instant communities, life is on hold in the parking lot that is the Riverside Freeway, 10 miles or more going nowhere at all hours of the day on one of the most congested auto corridors in the world. But like a …
Tough Choices
I dunno: Friends and family of an Appleton woman convicted of theft can pack away their Cheeseheads for the year. By shedding the green and gold, Sharon E. Rosenthal will avoid donning an orange jumpsuit. Rosenthal, 49, made a decision that might make many Green Bay Packers fans shiver after Judge Scott Woldt gave her …
Cole’s Law
You all have heard of Godwin’s Law, right? A review: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Here is my new law, which we will call Cole’s Law: In any given political discussion, if religion is mentioned, the probability of the discussion shifting to a …
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