Category Archives: Politics

Eight Ways Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Show More Leadership Than Our “Leaders”

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It might sound absurd to think it, but when Congressional sessions sometimes feel more like a joke than Comedy Central programming (c.f. debt ceiling debate), the world’s gone just backward enough for it to work. Besides, as vaunted journo Keith Olbermann pointed out in his pre-Current Rolling Stone interview, “Comedians are the only ones paid to tell the truth in public discourse. Everybody else—politicians, news broadcasters, religious figures—we’re all paid to be oracles, when in fact we are like a good public-relations man. Read more . . . 

Sam Harris, “How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying)”

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There is simply no question that an obsession with limited government produces impressive failures of wisdom and compassion in otherwise intelligent people . . . And lurking at the bottom of this morass one finds flagrantly irrational ideas about the human condition. Many of my critics pretend that they have been entirely self-made. They seem to feel responsible for their intellectual gifts, for their freedom from injury and disease, and for the fact that they were born at a specific moment in history. Many appear to have absolutely no awareness of how lucky one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, to not have cerebral palsy, or to not have been bankrupted in middle age by the mortal illness of a spouse. Many of us have been extraordinarily lucky—and we did not earn it. Many good people have been extraordinarily unlucky—and they did not deserve it . Read more . . . 

Rick Perry To Spend The Weekend With A Pseudo-Historian, A Christocrat, And God’s Sugar Daddy

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David Barton is already well-known to readers of this blog – he’s the Religious Right’s favorite pseudo-historian. . . Rick Scarborough is a self-proclaimed “Christocrat . . . ” [Jim] Leininger has been called “God’s Sugar Daddy . . . ” We can now add these activists to the ever-growing list of extremist Religious Right activists with whom Rick Perry is associating himself. Read more . . .

9/11 Memorial Service to be Secular, Bloomberg Announces

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Mayor Bloomberg has made a wise choice in keeping this government-sponsored event secular. A time of healing is not enhanced by introducing division . . . This isn’t new, it’s a continuation of a multi-year policy of focusing the memorial on the families, not on providing a soapbox for clergy to pontificate . They each already have a place where they can do that . . . [Tea Party Nation] want[s] to destroy America and turn it into a Christian theocracy, populated only by Christians — you know, “real” Americans. Read more . . . 

Anti-Gay Groups Rally To Defend Anti-Gay ‘Charity’ Group

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A campaign spearheaded by LGBT rights and women’s rights groups Change.org and AllOut.org, encouraging companies to drop their ties to the Christian Give Back Group (formerly the Christian Values Network), unsurprisingly has the Religious Right up in arms. The CGBG was founded by Stephen Baldwin (Alec Baldwin’s brother) and Michael Lohan (Lindsay Lohan’s father), with Mike Huckabee acting as its spokesman. Read more . . .

Congress Shall Make No Law . . . Why We Are Not A Christian Nation

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*** MUST READ *** MUST READ *** MUST READ ***

The separation of church and state must be upheld at all costs, because it keeps the majority from pressuring the minority.  We already have horrific examples of the logical conclusion of a Theocracy, and I am not just referring to the Islamic nations, but the countless incidents of homosexuals being beaten and killed, legally licensed physicians being murdered and many other discriminatory and criminal offenses against those who do not hold the “right beliefs . . . ” America is not one nation under God, but one nation under a Constitution . . . Neutrality offends no one, and protects everyone. Read more . . .