Author - SK Ashby

Open Thread

The Diplomat

Artist - Bill Day A reminder -- If you are a cable or satellite TV subscriber you can watch live-streams of every Olympic event at NBC's Olympic website. In fact, that may be the only way to see each...

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Voter Suppression

Because ACORN!

According to Kris Kobach, the grandfather of "Papers Please" anti-immigration law and adviser to the Romney campaign, if you want to blame someone for passing discriminatory voter suppression laws...

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Ethics

Homemaker Job Training

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a formal complaint with the Department of Labor over a federally-funded, veteran's job-training provider that is only offering courses in How To Be a...

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Open Thread

Don’t Mind Mitt

Artist - Nate Beeler In other news, according to the former chairman of the Florida Republican Party, the party discussed strategies specifically aimed at suppressing the minority vote beginning in...

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Quote

Quote of the Day

Ed Kilgore on Mitt Romney's "incredible shrinking biography." Yet the number of items from his resume that he is willing and able to talk about in order to cross that threshold is close to the...

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Poll

30 Percent of Republicans Agree

30 percent of Republicans agree that the president is a Muslim. From the latest Pew poll They weren't going for vote for him anyway, but what's remarkable to me is the sharp increase from 2008. In...

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Ethics

Mister Family Values

The Freeh Report commissioned by Penn. State University revealed that there was a concerted effort by school officials to obfuscate and obscure Jerry Sandusky's actions. The report also revealed that...

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Racism

Even If Rush Agrees With You…

...he's probably going to insult you. If you're black, that is. via Politico Ice-T told Channel 4 London in a recent interview that “the right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense...

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Open Thread

Fox Garbage Channel

Artist - Bill Day In other news, according to the Consumer Federation of America and the Consumer Planner Board of Standards, 38 percent of Americans now live paycheck-to-paycheck. Don't worry. The...

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