Obama Acknowledges Two Father Families In Father’s Day Proclamation, Christian Right Flips Out

Secular News Daily reports: As part of his Sunday proclamation, Obama included a reference to “two fathers”: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. Tim Wildmon, president of the far-right American Family Association, responded [...]

Bad Science In The Gulf

Rachel Maddow warns that the Obama Administration is ignoring scientific opinion about the way to rebuild the Gulf: Your Thoughts?

Olbermann And Matthews Rip Obama’s Oval Office Speech

Thanks to Terri Lee for the heads up. Your Thoughts?

Cults Of Inerrant Leaders

Glenn Greenwald summarizes an atrocity of institutionalized injustice, whereby the executive branch of the United States has the power to abduct and torture innocent people with impunity: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning [...]

Obama To Make Reassuring Eye Contact With Every Last American

Obama turns to his strength: ROCKLAND, ME—In an attempt to convince an anxious populace that his legislative agenda is working and that everything is going to be all right, President Barack Obama embarked on a 50-state, 30,000-town tour Monday during which he plans to gaze assuredly into the eyes of each American citizen, one at [...]

Obama’s Correspondents’ Dinner

Pretty funny stuff as usual and just like last year his parody of Michael Steele’s forced attempts to make the GOP relevant to African Americans is one of his funniest stretches: Your Thoughts?

Obama Prays With Billy Graham

As good as Obama is in his abstract thinking about the value of the separation of church and state, I loathe having to watch him pander to religious power brokers like Jeremiah Wright, Rick Warren, and, now, as president after president before him has, Billy Graham.  Here’s Christopher Hitchens on Billy Graham: Your Thoughts?

Obama’s Rawlsian Defense Of Separation Of Church And State

This video of a speech Obama made during his presidential campaign which is making the rounds among my atheist Facebook friends today: When the speech was made I commented on James Dobson’s faulty reaction to Obama.  As I implied in that post, in the part not addressing Dobson, I think this speech is a spectacular [...]

Palin’s Youth

Andrew Sullivan publishes an eerie e-mail from a high school teacher in the midwest about the response of young conservative students to Sarah Palin. My conservative students can’t discuss or write about Palin to my satisfaction. These conservative kids can be intelligently critical of Obama and his policies; of the wars; of Bush and torture [...]

Daily Hilarity: Dave Barry Recaps 2009

Dave Barry cathartically recaps a miserable year for the nation, taking it month by month, starting with January: during which history is made in Washington, D.C., where a crowd estimated by the Congressional Estimating Office at 217 billion people gathers to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the first American president ever to come after [...]

Encouragements Of Imprecatory Prayers Against Obama

So insidious: Over the past few days, a Biblical verse has reportedly topped the google trends charts. It is also turning up in bumper stickers and tee shirts across the country. It reads: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” But what do you see when you look up that Psalm? “May his days be few; may [...]

Turn That Smile Upside Down…

These and a whole bunch more can be found here.

President Obama’s Speech At Fort Hood Memorial

Your Thoughts?

David Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim About His Vote Against Rape Victims’ Rights To Sue Haliburton

A month ago we highlighted the unconscionable decision of 30 Republican senators to vote against Al Franken’s bill which would assure that those who were raped in connection with their employment at Haliburton’s would have rights to sue Haliburton.  In this tense exchange, a rape victim confronts one of those senators, David Vitter. A transcript [...]

The Hard Case Against Perpetual War

Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, an uncompromising, non-partisan champion of civil liberties and opponent of U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, sat down with Bill Moyers the end of last month and made a sobering case about the self-perpetuating character of war in America.  I feel very conflicted personally since even though I opposed [...]

FOX News’s Fair And Balanced Coverage Of The Obama Presidency

The epitome of self-parody: Your Thoughts?

Obama Administration Supports UN Exceptions To Free Speech Protections In Cases Of Religious Speech

Upsetting: Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to [...]

Little Boy Asks Obama “Why Do People Hate You?”

Presidents have the darnedest things said to them: I love his response.  He uses the opportunity as a chance to model both empathetic understanding for his enemies and an unflappably positive, resilient spirit amidst disdain. Your Thoughts?

For The Sake Of The Children

From The Associated Press: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. Neither [...]

Daily Hilarity: Marlin Hill’s Awesome Obama Impression

This guy is so, so, so much better than the lame SNL one we seem stuck with.  His Obama is as good as Carvey’s Bush, Sr. and Fey’s Palin.

Gore Vidal On America, Obama, Homosexuality, and Timothy McVeigh

Johann Hari has an interview with Gore Vidal, in which Vidal expresses some wild opinions. First Hari’s rundown of Vidal’s one of a kind biography: At 83, he has lived through one third of the lifespan of the United States. If anyone incarnates the American century that has ended, it is him. He was America’s [...]

Judge This: Obama’s Speech On Gay Rights To Human Rights Campaign Last Night

Here’s a key 2:34. And the full text, via the White House Press Office: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DINNER Walter E. Convention Center Washington, D.C. 8:10 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Please, you’re making me blush. (Laughter.) AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Barack! THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. [...]

Gay Rights Activists Debate Obama’s Record On LGBTQ Issues

Cleve Jones vs. Joe Solmonese, interviewed by Chris Matthews: via Joe.My.God Your Thoughts?

Why Did Barack Obama Win The Nobel Peace Prize?

Geir Lundestad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee explains the reasoning: (H/T) Your Thoughts?

Why Barack Obama Does NOT Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize At All

As I already said, everyone left, right, and center is baffled today by Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize received out of the blue and before he has actually accomplished much of anything of what he had promised from his presidency (as Saturday Night Live compellingly argued).  Earlier I made an argument that his election merits the award [...]