Recent Votes

• I think I'll burn my bible today.

  When I was 11 years old I got my first book, a bible from the church because I moved from Sunday School into the adult congregation.

  124

  442

• Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him?

  Source: Christian Science Monitor

  Newt Gingrich keeps likening President Obama to radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. But Gingrich seems to have adopted Alinsky's tactics himself, as has the tea party. Mainstream Republicans aren't happy.

  4

  1

• If Republicans Don't Want the Race Card Played, They Should Stop Dealing It.

  Whenever someone has pointed out the obvious fact that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have engaged in open race baiting, or that certain policies negatively impact the black community in disproportionate ways (criminal justice), someone else has complained that the proverbial "R …

  74

  185

• Presidential Follies

  Someone looking for the first time at American electoral politics, particularly at the race for the Republican nomination for president,** must be confused and not a little disappointed. Anticipating intellectual rigor, he gets ad hominem castigation instead.

  14

  14

• Republican Dominated Indiana State Senate Committee Votes for Creationism in Schools

  Source: Little Green Footballs

  Creationism, that zombie of the American political scene, rises again — this time in Indiana:

  80

  192