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Christine O'Donnell Supporters Decry Debate Coverage
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- What did she say, and what did she mean? In the wake of tea party candidate Christine O'Donnell's comments on the First Amendment in a debate with her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, numerous media outlets (including this one) ran stories about O'Donnell's apparent lack of knowledge about the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Very quickly, however, other media sources, such as Rush Limbaugh, forcefully argued that O'Donnell was correct in that the literal words "separation of church and state" do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. "What she was talking about was ...
Opinion: Primary Commentary Roundup
By not in system - AOL News(June 9) -- Editor's note: Tuesday's primaries sparked a wide range of commentary on the meaning of the races. We've gathered up a sampling. What Anti-Incumbent Rage? I am starting to wonder if the real story -- the one we are making too little of -- is that the primaries are showing much more ideological change in the GOP than among Democrats. ... The bottom line is that the Republicans are now a very homogeneous, conservative party. The Democrats remain a lot less liberal than the Republicans are conservative. -- E.J. Dionne, the Washington Post. Not Such a Big Day for Women By my count, ...
There's a New Sheriff in Town
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe writers at Woman Up are happy to learn their ladies' blog is going to be shielded from rude remarks. Despite our evolutionary long tail, the women who write on this forum are all originally somebody's daughter, and as much as we are big girls, we still get a bit insulted or have our feelings hurt when readers are gratuitously rude. Previously innocent to ubiquitous hate speech, we were a bit unnerved when we guilelessly moved into the Internet neighborhood six months ago, with our parent magazine Politics Daily, and cyber bullies greeted us with weapons drawn. As writers, and as ...
An American Revolution: NASCAR and Hip-Hop
By tallglassofmilk - AOL NewsNASCAR is going to have to do a lot more than put Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a commercial with T.I. or video with Jay-Z to convince the hip-hop community that its athletes are on par with basketball greats Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, et. al.Herald Sun columnist John McCann says a NASCAR driver isn't any more of an athlete than a mechanical bull or a brother strolling through the 'hood back in the day with a boombox perched on his shoulder. Link to AudioIn fairness, he quotes from Webster defining an athlete as "one having the natural aptitude for physical exercises in sports as strength, agility ...
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