Politics
“You’re out of order… you’re out of order…. you’re out of order…everybody’s fucking out of order!”… Me…. channeling my inner Pacino, because what the fuck else can one do when facing dick limp leaders who won’t explain their shit to the people, that pay their freight… in Canada, Toronto and Dildo, NFLD. TERRANCE GAVAN [...]
terrance gavan – editor Here’s what we have on this cockamamie story emanating from Parliament Shill and the home of drunken sideways rhetoric formerly known as the home of sober second thought. The red faced and rotund senator, one Mick the Slick Duffy, has issued a statement about a $90,000 repayment for cheating on his [...]
Senators Jeff Flake, Chuck Schumer, John McCain, and Michael Bennet on a visit to the Mexican border near Nogales, Arizona. (Associated Press) The prospects for comprehensive immigration reform got a bit brighter today, as U.S. business and labor groups reportedly drew closer to an agreement on how to structure a guest worker program aimed at low-skill [...]
Reuters In 1943, Allied forces achieved a hard-fought victory in the North African campaign, captured Sicily, and began to fight their way up the Italian peninsula. Victories in places such as El-Alamein, Salerno, and Anzio gave America some confidence that the Allies would ultimately prevail in Europe. That confidence allowed the American public to shift [...]
Plaintiff Edith Windsor waves to supporters outside after arguments in her case against the Defense of Marriage Act. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) When Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan read aloud from the 1996 Report to Congress that accompanied the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, there were audible gasps of shock in the courtroom, according to [...]
Keith Bedford/Reuters In a rare moment of bipartisan consensus, the Senate on Friday voted 99-0 in favor of an amendment that would end federal subsidies for the nation’s biggest banks. The amendment, introduced by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, was one of hundreds that formed the vote-a-rama [...]
First Lady Betty Ford sports a pro-ERA button in 1975. (Reuters) It’s hard to remember now, but same-sex marriage was once little more than a thought experiment. When Andrew Sullivan wrote “The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage” for The New Republic in 1989, it was one of the first articles about the idea, and as [...]
No holiday embodies the essential tension at the heart of Jewishness like Passover does. The story of Passover is the story of a particular people moving from a specific land of slavery to a particular land of freedom (President Obama, on his trip last week to Israel, seemed to understand very well the — you [...]
Reuters President Obama’s health care law — a killer issue in 2010 but an afterthought among voters in 2012 — will face another round of attacks in 2014 as its thorniest parts go into effect, potentially supplying Republicans fresh ammunition in their war against “Obamacare” and creating renewed problems for a plethora of vulnerable Democrats. [...]
