For the past two years the Democratic Party has been able to make a lot of gains by pointing to the bad behavior of Republicans – Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ted Stevens. But Stevens may be the last of the Republicans to self-destruct for a while. At least until the Republicans get too self assured. For now, though that looks like the problem facing the Dems.| MORE ›
While campaigning for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele has admonished party conservatives to driving away moderates. Steele’s argument is a rather old one in its vague terms — that the party needs to have a “big tent” where different perspectives on various issues can be accommodated by a shared commitment to certain core issues. But this approach begs the question to many conservatives — what are those core issues to be? (more…)
In a stunning blow to Democratic Party claims to represent a reversal of years of Republican corruption, Illinois Governor Blagojevich has been arrested this morning. Charges include attempts by the Governor to trade an appointment to President-Elect Obama’s Senate seat for Blagojevich’s own appointment in the Obama administration or an appointment to a lucrative union position.| MORE ›
Several weeks ago, a post here at PoliGazette prompted an extended discussion about the nature of atheism. Along with a couple of others, I contended that atheism has often allowed itself to be dominated or at least publicly represented by a coterie of militants who have given the atheist movement a strongly negative orientation. Basically, atheism has become defined by its contempt towards religion and religious people and any positive message has been almost entirely lost.| MORE ›
That seems to be the argument David Hume is making over at The Secular Right:
The fact is that religious traditions are a part of human culture, and they interact with ostensibly non-religious parts of human culture. To extirpate all that is religious from one’s life is to extirpate human culture.| MORE ›
A nepotistic-like succession of Caroline Kennedy to the likely soon-to-be-vacated seat of Senator Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to be garnering much support, at least amongst those in the blogosphere. The idea of expanding the Kennedy dynasty…just because…isn’t appealing to people. Glenn Greenwald wrote last week:| MORE ›
MPACUK, a British Muslim “empowerment system” according to its web site, says that it will no longer apologize for the acts of Islamic terrorists. This video, MPACUK says, explains why Muslims have turned to violence against their “executioners”:
Too bad it takes his assistant Patrick Appel to point it out:
While signing off, Andrew mentioned the months long argument he and I have had with regard to Sarah Palin’s fifth child. I am the only other person who has read all the obstetrician interviews, the interview with a reporter at the scene, and all the primary sources. I strongly believe that there is nothing to this story.
Also, on Sullivan’s harping on the birth not being reported in the hospital records:
This is highly misleading.| MORE ›
Admittedly, I haven’t been paying attention to much going on outside the borders of the U.S. recently (except the terrorist attacks in Mumbai), so I didn’t know this was going on. Still, much has happened in Canada in the last week or so.| MORE ›
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