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NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made the movie, Citizens United, is a [...]

Recently my girl Ashley pointed me to a post at Jack and Jill Politics. In my browsing there, I came upon yesterday’s post, “The Field Negro Smacks Down Shelby Steele’s Self-Hating BS.” While the post makes important points about the natural alignment of the black power movement and liberal politics’ focus on the government’s commitment [...]

Check out this article by Nicolas Kristof of the New York Times for all of the details on Al Queda’s endorsement of McCain for president and why it makes a lot of sense that the most “anti-America” position supports the most “pro-America” position: extremism breeds extremism. (Cartoon source: Married to the Sea).

Couchsurfing might conjure incongruous images. I admit that my first thought was of buoyant furniture. Yet there is something seriously rad going on here — a social phenomenon that sometimes seems more like a political or philosophical statement than a mode of travel. Kind of like frisbee. Let me explain. Couchsurfing.com is a networking website [...]

What’s this? I’ve heard that the Right has discovered a new kind of discrimination that occurs… wait, wait, this is just coming in… against women, of all people. That’s right, folks, there is some kind of “double standard” being employed, as we speak, that makes women less free than their fellow citizens. But the good [...]

Well, I have to admit it: I’m kinda angry. Or to put it less originally, MY VAGINA’S ANGRY! “Whoa,” you are saying as you back out of the room, “easy there, cowgirl.” I mean, really, that’s a joke: I feel my anger in my brain — you know, that pea-sized appendage. That’s also where I [...]

My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.” One path [...]