Web story out today on Obama’s fundraising.
Yeah, I heard about what McCain said regarding same-sex couple adopting a child. In the interview, he even says it’d be better for the children to remain parentless rather than have two Mommies (or two Daddies). As the aunt (ish. Complicated family tree.) of two rather adorable girls who were adopted by their moms out [...]
For Tat.
In addition to Rush Limbaugh, I also listen to Laura Ingraham. She is not as skilled as Rush, or as smart; listening to her really is a kind of work. And sometimes it’s rewarding, like today; her guest was John McWhorter, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and sharp cultural critic who is also black. [...]
The NYT website has a link (via Canadian TV) to the most extensive interrogation video yet released from inside Guantanamo. It’s poor quality and hard to watch–not because of the interrogation techniques themselves, but because of the youth of the “enemy combatant.” Omar Khadr, a Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, was [...]
President Bush’s call to lift a ban on offshore drilling has also revived the argument to lift the moratorium on oil shale leases. It sounds like a sensible idea. After all, by some estimates, there is as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and the United [...]
