A NYTimes.comfront page headline reads: ‘Clinton Seeks Middle Ground in Abortion Debate’ with the tag line, ‘Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the nation’s focus should be on preventing unwanted pregnancies.’
I’m only going to scream this once. FOCUSING ON UNWANTED PREGNANCIES IS NOT THE ‘MIDDLE GROUND IN THE ABORTION DEBATE.’ IT’S SMART PUBLIC POLICY! IT’S […]

Karl Rove is all about recycling . . . his old, worn-out political attacks. In a speech to New Hampshire Republican officials yesterday he rolled out these old chestnuts, “They’re for higher taxes. We’re for lower taxes” and “They’re for more spending. We’re for less spending.” Republicans, the party of fiscal incontinence, is for less […]

UPDATE: We have a winner! As soon as she sends us permission we’ll publish her name and her letter to Gov. Bredesen. It’s a good one!
If you’d like a chance to win tickets today to see Bill Maher at the Ryman Auditorium on July 8, particpate in our democracy and send an email to the […]

Our guests for Monday, June 12, will be Randy Tarkington, Campaign Director for Vote NO on 1 (Because marriage equality matters) and Milan Rai, a London-based writer whose most recent book is the just-released “7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War.” Milan is also a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness UK, which […]

AC’s post notwithstanding, it sometimes take me some time to read, read, read all about it.
Although Rep. Cooper did vote for the Markey amendment, which would have codified Net Neutrality into law, that amendment did not pass and yet Mr. Cooper went ahead and voted yes on HR 5252, aka COPE (Communications Opportunity, Promotion, […]

We’re so glad that Representative Jim Cooper is getting some competition in the upcoming election from Independent candidate Ginny Welsch.
Yesterday, Representative Cooper voted for the Communications, Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 (.pdf) that would give large internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast more control over what you see and do online. […]

On Monday, we interviewed comedian Matt Besser of Upright Citizens Brigade. Matt will be in town tomorrow tonight, June 7th, at Bongo Java Cafe Theater, to perform Woo Pig Sooie, his stand up routine/performance highlighting current issues concerning the separation of church and state.
Matt was kind enough to call in to the show from the […]

Media Matters monitors the worst of the media, including Rush Limbaugh who admitted a few days ago to airing a call from phony liberal-bashing Lt. Col. in Iraq.
For a long time I’ve believed that many of Rush’s callers are setups so this doesn’t surprise me. Nor does it surprise me that he’s one of those […]

Molly Ivins: Flag Burning and Other Dubious Epidemics
AUSTIN, Texas—Thank goodness the Republicans are around to tell me what to worry about. The flag-burning crisis—here in Austin, there’s that pall of smoke rising from the west every morning (it’s from an area called Tarrytown, where they burn hundreds of flags daily).
You didn’t know hundreds of flags […]

A woman called the show anonymously this morning to bring our attention to her plight as a victim of Hurricane Katrina and, subsequently, as a victim of the insurance industry. She wanted to remain anonymous because she was in litigation against her insurance company. Here is the Sun Herald news story she wants us all […]