KSHB-George Tiller, the nation’s most well known abortion doctor, was shot to death Sunday morning as he walked into church. A person of interest is in custody in a Johnson County detention center.
Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church, located at 7601 E. 13th St., where he is a member [...]

 
It is laughable to hear the most disgusting POS senator in America, Chucky Schumer go after conservatives who question Sonia Sotomayor’s credibility on race issues. This is the same Chucky Schumer who led the filibuster against a nominee from President Bush just a few years ago by calling the nominee a racist based on one ruling [...]

A survey by the Pew Research Center indicate that both the Republican and Democratic parties are loosing touch with main stream America as an increasing number identify themselves as Independents. It makes for interesting reading.
The survey says “there has been no consistent movement away from conservatism, nor a shift to liberalism – despite the decline [...]

Is this crazy talk?

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I did not support the ruling Sotomayor made in a affirmative action case but calling her a racist for it only creates a distraction away from the issue. And makes many people question if affirmative action is still needed.
HP-One of the top Republicans in the Senate, John Cornyn, is repudiating recent comments by Rush [...]

I agree great essay!
TH-We touched on a lot of issues, and we panelists seemed well received by everybody there. At one point I noted with pride that I considered metropolitan Atlanta, made up of nearly 5.5 million people, to be one of the most racially “in tune” places in America. I pointed out that with [...]

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Our very own Alvaro Vargas Llosa, on his way to a conference on democracy and free enterprise in Venezuela, was detained by its authorities for two hours. Thankfully, his call to the media made them back off for now. The Buenos Aires Herald reports that his passport was withheld [...]

It’s impossible to deny the strong undercurrent of racism in the right’s anti-immigration groups. This guy, Marcus Epstein, is the executive director of The American Cause, founded by Pat Buchanan and Team America PAC, founded by Tom Tancredo. Or he was until he pled guilty to unprovoked verbal (the n-word, of course) and physical (a [...]

We must decriminalize drugs to destroy the money behind the gangs!
NPR-While urban gun violence in Chicago and other cities is nothing new, there is a growing sense among community leaders that it’s now at a crisis level.
“Honestly, I’ll admit it, I’m afraid to come to school sometimes,” says Clinet Jordan, 18, a senior at [...]

Busted!
WP-Senator Now Says He Tried to Solicit Money for Blagojevich
In the latest in a series of shifting accounts of his conduct, Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) told reporters that he tried to raise money for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the same time he was asking Blagojevich to appoint him to the Senate.
Burris said he [...]

How do we pay for this?
THEHILL-House Democrats are about to launch an ambitious effort to move a $450 billion highway bill to President Obama’s desk by the end of September.
The drive to complete work on the highway bill, a magnet in the past for charges of wasteful spending, comes just months after [...]

Will it pass?
TH-President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn’t deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act. “If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not going to get it done,” Obama told supporters by [...]

Will this be an issue?
WRG-There’s some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Association this week.
Specifically: Levin confirmed that he’d seen the classified CIA documents that Cheney has been asking the CIA to declassify and release — and said that they don’t prove [...]

This is apparently making the rounds on rightwing websites. Takes me back to those classic homegrown Clinton campaign videos. Whatever.

Very good post all should read!
REDSTATE-RedState’s leader and my friend, Erick Erickson, wrote a piece today titled “The Peter Principle”, in which he compares Peter’s thrice denial of Christ to Republicans who dismiss the views of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Dick Cheney. Cheney was at least an elected leader. The others are not.
Rush Limbaugh [...]