I am, of course, pleased by New Jersey’s top court recognizing what I consider the obvious: that same-sex couples deserve the same legal and tax benefits as heterosexuals.
But what really interests me is not the whole debate over whether same-sex unions should be allowed; it’s that the debate provides a near-perfect example of how a [...]

I’m no election prognosticator. But I do pay attention to political winds and I’m beginning to wonder if the Democrats might still have time to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
One concern is that “conventional wisdom� puts Democrats way ahead. Democrats do poorly when conventional wisdom puts them in the lead (See: Kerry, John [...]

First the good news…
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.
The high court gave lawmakers 180 days to rewrite marriage laws to either include same-sex couples or [...]

The Moose says many smart things.
Here are some more…The Moose celebrates the emergence of the middle.
The political story of the week is that independent voters are heavily swinging to the Democrats this year. This shift could very well result in a Democratic wave that could propel the donkey to control both the Senate and the [...]

Yeah…that’s nonsense…
University of Chicago neurologist Dr. Thomas Kelly says Limbaugh doesn’t have his facts straight. Fox’s disease has progressed where he no longer only gets tremors, which can be controlled with medication, but has more erratic movements which are caused directly by his medicine.
“Chaotic, maybe writhing, dance-like movements, or dyskinesia, the movements I’ve seen in [...]

Unbelievable…and yet…
U.S. Senate candidate James Webb’s last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville because of a computer glitch that also affects other candidates with long names, city officials said yesterday.
Although the problem creates some voter confusion, it will not cause votes [...]

In what strikes me as a sign of desperation, Republicans have been trying to scare people with the prospect of what the Democrats might do if they take over Congress. Socialized medicine! Tax hikes! Impeachment! The destruction of the country! You just know that a bunch of people are going to go trick-or-treating as Speaker [...]

Wow…Rush just gave the pro-stem cell crowd a huge gift on Monday.
From the Wash Post:
Possibly worse than making fun of someone’s disability is saying that it’s imaginary. That is not to mock someone’s body, but to challenge a person’s guts, integrity, sanity.
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The actor, [...]

E.J. Dionne gives us a few thoughts on why a Dem House and Senate won’t be the liberal nightmare many on the right are warning us about.
From the Wash Post:
If a Democratic majority depends on moderate voters, it also depends on the victory of moderate candidates. In five of the seven races likely to decide [...]

By now you’ve seen the videos of Bush saying the administration’s strategy was never “stay the course.” And you’ve heard his advisors go on television and say the same thing.
Well, I went to the White House’s home page and typed “stay the course” into the search bar. This is a sampling of what I found.
Here’s [...]

First, remember last month when those Princeton students hacked into the Diebold machines, uploaded some code and subsequently changed election results with absolutely no trace? Well, if not, click here and read my post about it.
Now we’ve got another situation, and it’s just as ugly. Basically, Diebold is not being honest, and it has the [...]

The press conference will be on Wednesday, but here’s the press release…
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, active- duty members of the military are asking Members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring American soldiers home.
Sixty-five active-duty members have sent Appeals for Redress to Members of [...]

America.
Reports The Christian Science Monitor.
[Y]oung Muslim-Americans today [are] educated, motivated, and integrated into society - and their voices help explain how the nation’s history of inclusion has helped to defuse sparks of Islamist extremism.
“American society is more into the whole assimilation aspect of it,” says New York-born [Omar] Jaber [an AmeriCorps volunteer]. “In America, it’s [...]

Sure enough, Obama is “considering” the presidency.
The only fun thing about that is thinking about the heartburn it must be giving Hillary.

I always seem to feel this way just before an election, as if the forces tearing the country apart are tearing me apart. Call it (small-d) democratic participation mystique*.
If the Democrats really do retake control of Congress in two weeks (WaPo is saying it looks increasingly possible for the Senate as well as the [...]

I’ve never been a gambler and I’ve never actually understood the mentality. Years ago, I told a friend that we live in a country driven by “chain letter economics” and I’m convinced my perception is truer today than it was at the time it first crossed my mind. The basic gist of my theory is [...]

“Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course,â€Â? George. We have been â€â€? we will complete the mission, we will do our job, and help achieve the goal, but we’re constantly adjusting to tactics. Constantly.”
- George W. Bush on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos

That is the question…in the conservative mag world.
First, National Review’s John Derbyshire says conservatives should send the GOP a message…
The only thing we can usefully do then is to assert our existence as a voting bloc in the one way that’s available to us: by not voting. That lays down a warning to any [...]

Powerful. Succinct. Timely.

(h/t: Sully)

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