***************WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE*************** After the initial background, we get into tweets and blogs of a Santorum supporter that are not for children under 18 or adults with delicate sensitivities. (You know that’s not me.) PolitiJim followers are aware of the recent demand for a retraction from Dallas based Alice Linahan and her “new media consulting” [...]
I find political meaning in everything, including the annual ritual of the changing of the Chicago Sports fan’s season, where we exchange bitter disappointment of basketball for the bogus hope for the boys of summer. PolitiJim has changed from his Bull hat to Cubs, but perhaps this year it is prophetic for our political hopes [...]
Despite the toss-up, anyone of the three contenders looks sure to take retiring Sen. Ben Nelson’s seat in November. More >
(WaPo) — President Obama’s announcement Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage highlights the importance of the gay community to his re-election effort, which could get a boost in donations as a result. Many of Obama’s key financial supporters are gay–including finance director Rufus Gifford and Democratic National Committee treasurer Andrew Tobias–and the campaign has regularly held [...]
A nice guy who rocked Congress by finishing first. More >
Rush: We improved TIME’s new cover More >
A consul general of Israel is scheduled to participate in a political rally with the fringe group J Street, which has vowed to turn the 2012 election cycle into a referendum on what it views as “far right” views on Israel. J Street’s Philadelphia-based affiliate announced today that Daniel Kutner, the Consul General of Israel [...]
The bill would reduce entitlement programs, redundancies and loopholes within mandatory spending items in the Federal budget by more $240 billion over the next decade. Measure expected to fail in Senate. More >
The new Salman Rushdie. (Al Arabiya) — Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani, a Shi’ite cleric based in the holy Iranian city of Qom, has issued a death sentence against rap artist Shahin Najafi for apostasy, the Persian-language Al Arabiya website reported on Wednesday. The sentence was issued after Najafi released a controversial song called “Naqi.” The song sparked a [...]
Why would a former, discredited Democrat, who indoctrinated troubled African American men into the teachings of Malcolm X, suddenly run for an obscure Houston area school board at the same time Sheila Jackson Lee daughter does? Furthermore, why would said Quanell X/Malcolm X protégé’ lie about his affiliation and try to pass himself off [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984