His name is Scott Roeder and it looks like he’s involved with Operation Rescue in some way. Obviously that doesn’t mean they’re to blame, but if you convince your followers that somebody is a mass murderer and is doing it legally…you think something bad might happen?
Here’s the comment he left at Operation Rescue’s site, via [...]

Even though I don’t have one myself, I’m definitely a cat person. Sure dogs are fun, and there’s no doubt they dish out much more unconditional love than cats, but my reasoning has always been that if I wanted a child I’d go and have one myself. Because that’s basically what a dog is: a [...]

From the description of the car in the earlier post, it’s not surprising that a suspect has been rounded up so quickly.
From KansasCity.com:
A suspect in the fatal shooting today of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller is in custody in Johnson County. [...]
Police said had been looking for a white male who was driving a 1990s [...]

Not only that, he was killed at his church.
From KMBC:
In a news conference on Sunday afternoon, Capt. Brent Allred said they were looking for a blue Ford Taurus with a K-State vanity plate, license number 225 BAB. He said the car was registered to an owner in Merriam.
Police described the shooter as a white male [...]

Looks like I’m not the only one.
From Huff Post:
“Of course this disturbs me,” said Lionel Sosa, one of the more influential Hispanic media advisers in the GOP. “I’m not surprised at Rush Limbaugh but I’m very surprised at Speaker Gingrich because he is one of the key people who knows the importance of the Latino [...]

The last paragraph in SCOTUSblog’s evaluation of her decisions on race says it all…
In sum, in an eleven-year career on the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor has participated in roughly 100 panel decisions involving questions of race and has disagreed with her colleagues in those cases (a fair measure of whether she is an outlier) a [...]

Here’s how the numbers break out…

Votes approve 54/24 %

22% undecided

Democrats support 81/3 %

Independents support 50/26 %

Republicans oppose 46/26 %

Men approve 48/31 %

Women approve 59/18 %

It’s pretty much a done deal at this point. The “racist” meme isn’t sticking and many Republicans are calling for their cage-rattling compatriots to cool it. So now it’s more about [...]

Wish fewer people smoked? Maybe it’s time for visual warnings on packages.
Cigarette packages should show graphic images of yellow teeth, blackened gums, protruding neck tumors and bleeding brains to alert smokers to their disease risks, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
WHO says 20 nations already use some form of visual warning and evidence suggests [...]

John Feehery, who served House Speaker Hastert and several other Republicans on the Hill, had this to say about the GOP party today. Like Feehery, “I am a Republican and have been all of my life.” And, I agree that “for the Republican Party to prosper, it must appeal to the close to 40 [...]

After listening to conservative religious leaders talk about preserving the 5000 years of traditional marriage between a man and a woman on NPR last week, I just had to laugh at the notion that marriage was a true reflection of family values and love.  For the most part, marriages were arranged and women were considered [...]

As this is my first post here at Donklephant, I should start with a brief introduction. I’m an ‘Illinois Republican’ who has spent the last decade living and working on the fringes of politics in Washington, DC. I previously wrote at ‘The Yellow Line’ with Alan Stewart Carl and am excited to re-join [...]

npr link to music torture…

If Hannity can’t admit that something is torture after having a friend undergo the technique and claim emphatically that it is, what else to say except it’s high time he makes good on his promise and goes through the process himself.

By the way, most of you know I don’t make it a habit to embed [...]

Hugh Hewitt is as right wing as they come and he’s basically raising the white flag.
From Town Hall:
Some on the right will want to use the occasion of President Obama’s first nomination to raise money through direct mail appeals, even though there is literally almost no way to stop Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation. Activists upset with [...]

Does anybody think Sonia Sotomayor isn’t going to get confirmed? Well, if you do, here are some reasons why you may want to rethink.
First, the rollout went off without a hitch. Even moderate Republicans lavished praise on her credentials, which are impressive and exactly what you’re looking for from a SCOTUS nominee. And there was [...]

Burris went on Hardball tonight and Matthews took him to task for the latest revelation that he talked to Blago’s brother about raising money for the then Governor.
It’s must see stuff…

So sounds bad, right? But nothing will come of it. Here’s why…
Technically, Burris never did raise any money for Blago, and talking about it isn’t [...]

California voters had their say and now Schwarzenegger is doing what needs to be done.
From Mercury News:
In a state that long has prided itself on its social safety net, it could well go down in history as the most drastic reduction in social programs ever. And billions in further cuts will be unveiled later this [...]

This was a bit of a surprise when I heard about it, but apparently Ted Olson has joined forces with the Equal Rights Foundation and they’ve just sent out a press release about yesterday’s decision.
Here are some key excerpts (.pdf) …
“Yesterday, the California Supreme Court said that the California Constitution compels the State to discriminate [...]

Trying to understand what kind of justice a Supreme Court nominee will be is a bit like solving a puzzle. You have to decide which pieces (which legal decisions, which law review articles, which public speeches) are the most important to the picture and which are merely outliers. In the case of Sonia Sotomayor, a [...]

First, the less reactionary ones…

President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is an important decision that will have an impact on the United States long after his administration.

Republicans are committed to a fair confirmation process and will reserve judgment until more is known about Judge Sotomayor’s legal views, judicial record and [...]