I know the title seems to overstate the situation, but it doesn’t. Seriously. This recent ruling certainly seems like you can’t be sexually liberated in Italy and expect protection from the police and the government. From CNN: Sexually abusing a teenager is less serious a crime if the girl is not a virgin, Italy’s higher [...]

First, the NAACP Chairman calls the GOP a bunch of Nazis. Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld compares Chavez’s rise to power with Hitler’s rise to power. Excuse me for a moment…yawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn…. In other news, Justin Gardner likens radishes to cauliflower, chaos follows.

Tim Russert asked Barack Obama a question yesterday on Meet The Press, and frankly I thought it was just plain dumb. The question concerned Harry Belafonte’s ridiculous, recent comments about Bush being the biggest terrorist in the world. After watching the Meet The Press clip (linked above), I can only imagine what Obama was thinking [...]

I appreciate his service in Iraq, but this is ridiculous… Hackett said in a Sunday column in The Dispatch: “The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious fanatics that, in my opinion, aren’t a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden and a lot of the other religious nuts around the world.” And no…he’s [...]

This is ridiculous: WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller? SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The â€â€? I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand [...]

This is INCREDIBLE. Hugh Hewitt recently said the following: With a nomination made, I prefer to press to the desired outcome, and support the president and recognize that the defeat of a nominee is a calamitous political consequence, no matter what other people say. It may come as a shock to people, but I am [...]

Like Bill Bennett, I probably should just keep my mouth shut. I confess, I’ve completely lost track of what “racist” means in contemporary American political discourse. I know what I think it means, but evidently I’m one of the people who are disqualified from knowing anything about it because I am a racist. That is, [...]

So to address some major points: Are blacks, on average, convicted of more crimes than any other race? Yes. Did Bennett disagree with author Steven Levitt’s theory that higher abortion rates = lower crime rates? Yes. Did Bennett agree that higher black abortion rates = lower crime rates? Yes. I blogged about the Bennett’s Black [...]

Media Matters For America captured a conversation Bill Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, had on his show Bill Bennett’s Morning in America. The program is said to reach an estimated 1.25 million listeners each week. Are you ready? Okay, here we go… BENNETT: you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics [...]

This is truly amazing, and no, not the good kind of amazing. From Washington Post. Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael D. Brown said yesterday that it was not his job to take over the evacuation of New Orleans and rescue the drowning city from Hurricane Katrina, blaming Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, New [...]

Ridiculous. Listen, I think our election system is as such that we’ll never truly know who had the most votes in Florida in 2000. Did Bush win? I don’t know. Did Gore win? I don’t know. But Carter says he has “no doubt” that Gore was elected. No doubt? Really? Listen to him say it [...]

Totten has collected some that were printed on a leaflet and handed out before the Hitchens/Galloway debate last night. Here are a few and then you can go over there and read the rest. “If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and [...]

I like Garrison Keillor….when he’s not being a litigious whiner. From the blog being sued, mnspeak: I have no doubt about where I stand legally. Parody typically falls under Fair Use (or sometimes, the First Amendment), and this is clearly an instance of parody. There are a series of factors involved in the definition of [...]

MLB strike zone Senator Joe Biden of Delaware said this during Judge Roberts confirmation hearings yesterday: [BIDEN] As you know, in major league baseball, they have a rule. Rule two defines the strike zone. It basically says from the shoulders to the knees. And the only question about judges (ph) is: Do they have good [...]

This is truly sad. Tom Tancredo, the man who called for the bombing of Mecca, says he doesn’t think the federal government should get involved give the state or local governments the money. U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., asked House Speaker Dennis Hastert not to send federal disaster aid to officials in Louisiana, calling state [...]

Here’s the actual quote: “And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this [she chuckles slightly] is working very well for them.” Now, I’m sure she didn’t mean anything vicious by it, but that’s kind of the point. Anybody who says that the flood is [...]

Since I’ve been focusing quite a bit on the good stuff about John Roberts, I figured it’s only fair to take a look at some of the more suspect stances he has taken. Recently a memo was discovered that exposed Roberts’ views about unequal wages between the sexes. That’s right. He wasn’t in favor of [...]

“The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.” Howard Dean, getting it really wrong on the KELO decision A bunch more over at Patterico.

When I first read this story about a flag burning incident involving a family’s tribute to their fallen soldier son, my gut told me that it would be blamed on liberals. Regrettably, I didn’t have to wait long to find out I was correct. The most popular blog I found that indulged in the “whodunit” [...]

Apparently the Tancredo effect is being felt around the right-wing mediasphere. This next to liken all of Islam to a terrorist organization is talk show host Michael Graham, who was promptly suspended by his station indefinitely. From the Wash Post: Graham, 42, said on his mid-morning program on Monday that the fault for recent acts [...]