Our First Pacific President??

Our “smartest President ever” is a moron. From Politico:
Trying to reassure allies and rivals, President Barack Obama billed himself Saturday as “America’s first Pacific president,” promising the nations of Asia “a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect.”
“America’s first Pacific President” took office forty years ago, and [...]

Is it the Y chromosome?

Honestly, I know enough biology to know that it can’t be. It just can’t. And yet how else to explain the sudden ignorance of a guy as sharp as Bob Somerby? He’s talking about Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow beating up on Stupak for tribalistic, Village reasons.
Somerby finds that inappropriate.
For ourselves, we [...]

Saturday Afternoon News REAL

Good Afternoon Conflucians!
In the mood to discuss some news?
The Nation Politic:
I read this yesterday morning from a link in the morning news thread down page, but it bears putting up here if you didn’t catch it.  It’s from RealClearPolitics and it’s entitled “Can the Clinton Coalition survive Obama? It’s a great [...]

Debate Club: The use of animals for testing

I must admit, I love debates; and the caliber of those in our community make this forum an excellent opportunity to hone our chops in this area.  We previously held an excellent debate discussion here at TC on the issue of parental rights versus responsibility regarding medical treatments for their children.  Therefore, I’d love to [...]

Saturday Morning Open Thread

Fred is obviously an Obot.
 
What are you doing this morning?

Make me laugh: Open Thread

OK Conflucians, we’ve had more depressing news this week than we certainly deserve.  Therefore, I’m ordering a cease and desist on gloom and doom, at least for this thread. I’m challenging you all to make me, and everyone else here, LAUGH.  What do you have in your bag ‘o’ tricks that will create spontaneous explosions [...]

It’s time to say “No More.”

Yesterday I received my official Democratic Party Headquarters “2009 Priority Issues Survey.”  This document reveals just what “Change” is being implemented.  While pleading for donations to the DCCC, they provide a checklist survey which includes among other things, a request for donors to rank a list of Democratic “priorities.”  Here’s the list:
_____ Lifting the economy [...]

Irreconciliable Differences in Stupakistan

Politico has a series of threads up on the Stupak Amendment, insurance coverage of abortion, and angry choice activists.  The first one is on the amendment and what hopefully is its inability to survive the reconciliation process . The other is on the RNC pulling abortion coverage from its staff’s insurance plan. The men in [...]

When the President does it . . .

 
This way to the Egress:
 
In the first major shakeup among President Barack Obama’s senior staff, White House Counsel Greg Craig is being pushed out in favor of veteran Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer because of a dispute over plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, CNN has learned.
The move will be announced by the [...]

This ain’t your daddy’s Country and Western

Last night the Country Music Association had their annual awards show. Taylor Swift was the big CMA winner, with four awards: Album of the Year, Music Video of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year.
For those of you who weren’t paying attention at the [...]