If you believe in prayer, pray for the Biden family
The Vice President's  44 year old son, Beau Biden, who is the attorney general of Delaware and served a tour in Iraq, is currently hospitalized at an undisclosed location in Houston, TX after becoming...
View ArticleSaturday night Republican lies
There were a lot of lies told by House Republicans during the debate on Saturday night about the Continuing Resolution, but I want to concentrate on just one category of those lies -- those concerning...
View ArticleHow are furloughs of Congressional staffers being handled?
I just watched the rebroadcast of tonight's edition of CNN's Crossfire, and I'm completely puzzled about something. At the very end of the program, the hosts asked Tom Coburn and Debbie Stabenow...
View ArticleThe Tea Party Bolsheviks
In the popular American imagination, the essence of the Bolsheviks was their leftist political and economic views, but there were lots of other groups around during the Russian Revolution that were...
View ArticleTwo GREAT PBS documentaries were on tonight
The first one was the first hour of what is to be a 6 hour series entitled "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross." Â It was put together by Henry Louis "Skip" Gates. Â Tonight's episode began with...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough just told a bare-faced LIE!
He was talking about Harry Reid saying the Senate isn't working, and claimed that this was Harry Reid's fault. Â He then went on to say that the Senate hasn't passed a single appropriations bill, and...
View ArticleAre there corporations in heaven?
I don't mean this question literally, since I know that there are many (perhaps most) here who don't think heaven exists. Â But it's a relevant question for the owners of Hobby Lobby, and the judges and...
View ArticleCall a waaahbulance for Senate Republicans: UPDATED
After two all-night sessions to "debate" nominations that they know are going to be approved, but that they insist on fully"debating," Senate Republicans are upset. Â Today's New York Times has an...
View ArticlePresbyterians vote to allow same sex marriage
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), by far the biggest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, voted this afternoon to permit its clergy to perform same sex marriages in...
View ArticleIT'S THE SUPREME COURT, STUPID!
In 2000, there were those who argued that there was really no difference between George W. Bush and the "corporatist" Al Gore. Many of them voted for Ralph Nader. Had essentially all of the Nader votes...
View ArticleBREAKING: Israel has launched a ground invasion of Gaza Strip
CNN is reporting that the Israeli government has announced that a ground operation is underway by essentially all branches of the Israeli military: Infantry, armored forces, artillery, and combat...
View ArticleMD-Gov: I'm officially worried
I'm becoming more and more worried about the Maryland gubernatorial election. Anthony Brown has run an absolutely dreadful campaign, the worst I've seen in this state since Kathleen Kennedy Townsend...
View ArticleThe question that should be put to Republicans
Any Republican who objects to the measures that the President just announced should be asked a very simple question:If you think the parents of American citizen children should be deported, are you in...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren for President!
I know she says she's not running, but she NEEDS to run. I worked hard to nominate and elect Barack Obama. I spent an entire month in Iowa at my own expense to volunteer for him in deeply hostile...
View ArticleO'Malley isn't aiming for VP
Today, in a speech at Harvard University, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley made it pretty clear that he isn't running for VP on a Hillary Clinton ticket. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley...
View ArticleNow, how about changing the MD state song?
If serious efforts can be made in South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State Capitol grounds, and if efforts can be made in Mississippi to remove it from a portion of the...
View Article"Illegal immigrants" -- a story from my mother
The minister of the church my mother attended as a youth had been a missionary in China, along with his wife. While there, they adopted a young Chinese orphan girl, who they raised as their own...
View ArticleWhy body cams are good for everybody!
A couple of days ago, there was a police shooting of an unarmed 19 year old black man in Baltimore County, Maryland. Given some recent incidents, it was easy to jump to the conclusion that this was yet...
View ArticleAn answer to the GOP Planned Parenthood Question
At today's hearing on the supposed "investigation" of Planned Parenthood, several GOP members of Congress harped on Planned Parenthood getting something like 41% of its funds from the government. They...
View ArticleIf somebody held a loaded gun to your head
Another diary about how some of the Republican candidates are now calling each other "crazy" (a sentiment with which I whole-heartedly agree) led me to contemplate what I would say if somebody held a...
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