Turks Protest Against Headscarves
by A huge crowd – over 100,000 people – assembled in An?tkabir, Turkey over the weekend to protest the Erdogan government’s plan to lift the ban …
Op-Ed Blog
Freedom Allows Hate, Too
Why do advocates think that people who speak out against illegal immigration are guilty of using hate speech? When you stop and think about it, …
Female Suicide Bombers "Mentally Impaired"
Leave the word female out of the title and you have a truism that every person who has the least bit of love for their …
Texans for Obama
The Houston Chronicle’s Texas Politics blog says that Barack Obama’s support is on the rise in Texas while Hillary Clinton’s supporters have remained static the …
Microsoft Buyout of Yahoo?
The Washington Post says Yahoo may be acquired by Microsoft: Yahoo was one of the first companies to popularize Web searching, and it still attracts …
Bill Clinton, Global Warming Fool
This is exactly the sort of thing I’ve been fearing – and expecting – from the Democratic party – the foolish idea that western nations …
McCain Wins Florida
With 74% of precincts reporting, the NY Times has called the Florida Republican primary for John McCain by a 36-31% margin over Mitt Romney. Rudy …
Morris on Clinton, Obama
When I wrote about what Dick Morris said about Hillary Clinton’s bullying, us-versus-them political tactics back in September, there was a bit of a negative …
Cyd Mizell’s Condition Unknown
From ABC: On Monday, the police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said police had not turned up any new information about the kidnapping. …
Greenwald on FISA, Congress
Glen Greenwald has an excellent piece up about the FISA amendments that are about to expire, the Bush administration’s bullying scare tactics that got them …