Because the American Family Association says so.

They were protesting oil dependency and rode their bikes in a colorful way. If bystanders heckled them we assume they turned the other cheek.

The White House advisor who reportedly repeatedly edited government climate reports to downplay play down links between such emissions and global warming has resigned. The timing — coming after a huge controversy — suggests that the resignation didn’t just pop into his head. And the White House’s explanation is the kind of stock statement an employer or organization usually gives when it invited someone to leave: Philip A. Cooney, the chief of staff to President Bush’s...

Nothing stops (most) athletes from playing. Nothing. And Young Pundit has a list of them.

Cross-posted at Random Fate. I recently posted on my own concept of honor, and how I feel the honor of my country has been soiled and continues to be soiled by the choice of our government to maintain the extra-legal prison an Guantanamo Bay. In that post, I disagreed with an assertion made by another blogger, someone whom I respect immensely. I want to make it very clear I was not saying that the Average Tobacco Chewing Joe of Cadillac Tight has no sense of honor. ATCJoe and I have had a relatively...

George Bush to Syria: stop interfering in Lebanon’s electoral process and get your intelligence agents out of Lebanon. Subtext (undefined consequence): or else. If you recall, during the last round of this crisis Syria had withdrawn its troops and, amid much journalistic fanfare, reports said it was withdrawing its intelligence agents, too. Few believe that has happened now. CNN reports: President Bush said Friday that he was disturbed by reports that Syria might still have intelligence agents...

A note: this is the personal opinion of the author, Jack Grant, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Joe Gandelman, the proprietor of this weblog. Cross-posted to Random Fate. In an article discussing the move of Apple from PowerPC to Intel based processors I read this of all things: (The Macintosh sycophancy) …reminds me of another self-justifying group of Americans that will approve anything their party does, no matter what (apparently its leadership believes it’s reasonable...

Attention F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.”: far be it for me to lecture you on democracy– you are professional politician— but you and any who defend what you did shouldn’t lecture Iraqis or anyone else about democracy: After repeated criticism of the Bush administration, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday gaveled a hearing to a close and walked out while Democrats continued to testify — but with their microphones shut off. What adjectives...

The jury in the Michael Jackson case has adjourned for the weekend — leaving a news media camped out in Santa Maria (and elsewhere) drooling in anticipation of a week that’s expected to be one of the biggest ever for celebrity journalism in print, on cable and on the airwaves. You could call this a “media circus” — except modern day circuses aren’t that big and no longer employ freak shows: About 2,200 members of the media have received credentials to cover...

We’ve put in our posts here a statement that Democratic fundraising is lagging under Howard Dean but Media Matters says that is not the case and documented it. Read their whole post where they take the Boston Globe to task for using that assertion here. Here’s the important paragraph for our readers: Media Matters for America documented that, as DNC chairman, Dean raised $14.8 million between February and April 2005 — roughly a 74 percent increase from the same period in 2003, the...

….at Uncorrelated, a really nicely written, tight-weblog that covers a lot of issues — giving you varying writers viewpoints. What’s refreshing is that this weblog does have writers who differ so greatly on how they perceive events. It’s posts are compact, but usually pack a punch. They give you excellent links, often to weblogs that you might not yet know about. This is important because it helps you discover some bloggers out there who may not be getting a lot of attention...

A word to the wise: be warned that you could receive the now infamous Jackson suicide virus in your email. And, no, despite what you might think, the Michael Jackson suicide virus doesn’t encourage you to click on a link where it plays Jackson’s last CD — causing you to commit suicide. Sophos reports it does this: Experts at SophosLabsâ„¢, Sophos’s global network of virus and spam analysis centers, have warned of a spam campaign that claims that Michael Jackson has attempted...

Now they’re going after Big Bird as what’s seemingly shaping up as a multi-fronted war against Public Broadcasting goes on: A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government’s financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children’s educational programs as “Sesame Street,” “Reading Rainbow,” “Arthur” and “Postcards From Buster.” In...

Joe Gandelman has named his weblog The Moderate Voice, I suspect in no small part because he appears to find knee-jerk ideological views damaging to our society in the least and more likely dangerous overall. There are some issues that go beyond politics to some, however, and in my case they are matters of honor, a concept that may not exist to many in this modern world. I have been attempting to define what is a “moderate” and trying to distingish that attitude from the political view...

Cross-posted at The Smoking Room Could the greatest threat to the Syrian regime be an odd coalition of seculars and fundies? In April, the outlawed Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement calling for free and fair elections and an end to the state of emergency, effectively martial law, in place since 1963. The Brotherhood warned the government that it would bear “sole responsibility” for the deterioration of the country if it ignored its call. The declaration from...

No, not the Washington Post after Woodstein, but a much lower-profile newspaper that has quietly impacted the lives of countless individuals around the world through its determination to avoid the pack.

It turns out the robber was a real slacker.

Speaking in two languages can come in very useful if you’re in politics: MANCHESTER – Wondering if Bill Richardson is running for president? It depends on which language you speak. “I want to be very clear about this presidential stuff,” Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, said at yesterday’s New Hampshire Latino Summit. “No, I will not run for president.” Then, switching to Spanish, he told the heavily Hispanic crowd, “Segura que...

A new report says the FBI repeatedly missed chances to find the 911 hijackers — and that it wasn’t happenstance but some deeply ingrained systemic problems. The Washington Post reports: The inability to detect the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot amounts to a “significant failure” by the FBI and was caused in large part by “widespread and longstanding deficiencies” in the way the agency handled terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a report released yesterday. In...

I’ll bet you the left side of John Bolton’s moustache and half of his nose hairs that if you go back and read the original stories about Harry Reid’s ascension to Minority Leader you’ll be struck by one thing: Reid has been a big surprise. When Reid took over from the voter-banished Tom Daschle, the conventional wisdom seemed to be “Here’s this nice, boring, behind the scenes politician who isn’t media savvy and can be no match for the Republicans or White...