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Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
Bloggers Consider Deliberate-Dud Theory
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 6) – Among the many "what-ifs" being batted around online in the wake of the Christmas plane bombing attempt is one that got its start on Andrew Sullivan's blog. What if, a reader asked, the so-called "underwear bomber" wasn't out to actually bring down Northwest Flight 253? What if the goal was simply to terrorize America? The Daily Dish reader's question stems from the fact that authorities say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab spent a long time in the plane's bathroom preparing the explosive device, but didn't detonate it there. Instead, he returned to his seat, where other passengers ...
Andrew Sullivan: Only Bush Can Remove 'Stain' of Torture
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn a lengthy open letter in the October issue of The Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan calls on President Bush to take responsibility for the torture and military abuses that happened on his watch, and help absolve the nation of its guilt. Sullivan praises Bush's recognition of September 11 as a declaration of war and of terrorism as a serious emerging threat to the West. But, Sullivan says, the U.S. lost its moral high ground. ...
O'Reilly Hits Back at 'Far Left' Over Tiller's Murder
By David Knowles - Politics DailyDoes Bill O'Reilly have blood on his hands in the murder of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller? To hear many left-leaning websites tell it, there's no real question. One of O'Reilly's regular targets, the Daily Kos, has put together a video montage of the dozens of segments O'Reilly has aired accusing Tiller of "executing babies" for "no reason whatsoever" in a Nazi-style "death mill."But did O'Reilly's vitriol over Tiller's profession really incite the likes of anti-government activist Scott Roeder, the suspect in the murder? After all, O'Reilly -- though he was adamant that Tiller's ...
East Coast Birthers Beef With West Coast Birthers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn the "I Love the 2008 Campaign" department, the "birthers" are alive and not so well. Politico likens the current schism between rival Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists to the hip-hop beefs of the 90's. East Coast Birther chief Philip Berg has filed suit against West Coast Birther poobah Orly Taitz, whose name sounds like an inflammation best treated with some Gold Bond powder. Among the complaints is the charge that Taitz called Berg a "Shyster." That's not to be confused with the more recent adjective form, "Shysty." YesToDemocracy.com is all over it, as usual: Ladies and ...
Poll: 'Tea Parties' a PR Victory or Failure?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyYesterday's "Tea Party" demonstrations were, depending on your news source and ideological perspective (don't these two things go hand-in-hand these days?), either a victory for ordinary citizens spontaneously standing up against government tyranny, or a paltry gathering of dingbats who threw an ugly tantrum at the behest of FOX News. If you're a fan of Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal column, you probably think the former. If you get your kicks on DailyKos, the latter version of events may seem more accurate. Our own Matt Lewis and Tommy Christopher had some good reports from the soggy front ...
Steele Goes Both Ways on Domestic Partnerships?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyLiberal blogger Andrew Sullivan juxtaposes Michael Steele's past comments regarding domestic partnerships. It turns out, abortion isn't the only thing he has been inconsistent -- or, at least, confused -- about. In fact, his answer on a given topic seems to depend on whom he is talking to at the time. I have excerpted the following Steele quotes from Sullivan's blog.This quote is from the GQ article: Well, my position is, hey, look, I have been, um, supportive of a lot of my friends who are gay in some of the core things that they believe are important to them. You know, the ability to be able ...
Save the Economy? Legalize Pot
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThat's the not-so-surprising conclusion reached not long ago by more than a few noted economists, Milton Friedman among them. In a letter to congress and the president, over 500 of the bean counters called for the federal government to decriminalize marijuana, cease the costly and ineffective prohibition of the drug, and regulate it the way we do alcohol. The report shows that marijuana legalization--replacing prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation--would save $7.7 billion per year in state and federal expenditures on prohibition enforcement and produce tax revenues of at least ...
Sarah Palin's 'Secret Pregnancy' and Other Secrets
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPeople magazine has scored the scoop of the geological era, if internet traffic to their website is to be believed. They've got the news on Sarah Palin's Secret Pregnancy, which means Andrew Sullivan probably did this when he saw the headline. What's the big secret? Did she really have octuplets that were implanted from Nancy Pelosi's embryos? WHAT'S THE SECRET?!? From Extra: People magazine reports "Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin" says "Sarah made one slip-up, but [she] dampened suspicion by explaining it away." One of her daughters found a prenatal ultrasound scan of Trig ...
Andrew Sullivan: Officially Outed as a 'Liberal'
By Matt Lewis - Politics Daily.... as if there has been any question about his ideology for the last several years, Andrew Sullivan is finally beginning to be properly classified. First, he was invited to meet with Barack Obama on his pre-inauguration "liberal media day," and now he has made Forbes' list of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." Forbes describes Sullivan as, "A granddaddy of Washington blogging and a former editor of The New Republic, he clings unconvincingly to the "conservative" label even after his fervent endorsement of Obama. His advocacy for gay marriage rights and his tendency to view ...
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