Santorum Sweep
Surprise triple victory for the former senator highlights a race that defies prediction.
Surprise triple victory for the former senator highlights a race that defies prediction.
Over this past weekend, there was a new honor killing in America. A 20-year-old woman is dead. Where is the MSM?
Over this past weekend, there was a new honor killing in America. A 20-year-old woman is dead. Where is the MSM?
Is it possible that PETA, an organization which has equated the eating of animals to the lynching of black Americans, has something in common with the Tea Party?
In Minnesota, residents rushing to postmark last minute tax forms will be subjected to a leaflet campaign organized by government unions.
It is a well-established fact that the United States is a center-right nation, yet over the last fifty years, the country’s laws and policies have slowly drifted leftward. One reason for this is that the Right has passively accepted the premise that the Left holds the middle ground. By labeling conservative ideas as extreme, the Left is laying claim to a default position in the center.
One of the current hot button issues in Minnesota is Voter ID. Critics of the plan speculate it may disenfranchise voters in peculiar situations. However, voters are already being disenfranchised by the lack of transparency in the system.
Is there some obligation to compromise your conviction if it offends someone else? That would seem to be the meme John Avalon and The Daily Beast are promoting.
Not content to let Eric Alterman have all the fun of belittling Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Daily Beast writer John Avlon has joined the Bachmann bashing bandwagon, too. The Beast’s resident “extremism” hand-wringer is taking a more roundabout approach, suggesting that Bachmann is symptomatic of a broader radicalization of Minnesota, for which she and Gov. Tim Pawlenty “are going to have to answer for.”
Please note the remarkable absence of references to grandpa shelling out $21 in crumpled one dollar bills for the kids’ ice-cream (in the same imaginary Baskin Robbins where our president spends most of his time) and suffering a living hell of prosecution and public humiliation as a consequence.