(With apologies to Rockwell. Although, really, he should be apologizing to the rest of us for getting that hook stuck in our heads for the better part of the 80s.) We’ve known for a while that Michelle Bachmann has her own special brand of crazy. She demonstrated it again today when she explained that she [...]
It hasn’t gotten much notice, but the progressive think tank Third Way has done some really interesting work in the past few months trying to bridge and heal divides between the gay rights community and some religious communities. (And, of course, the two communities are not mutually exclusive. A Barna Group survey released this week [...]
I take no pleasure in political sex scandals, even when the perpetrators are politicians I find loathsome and hypocritical. Indeed, any sign that a pol actually is human, has flaws, has faults, is often an indication that, post-scandal, he (or she, but usually he) might be more able to relate a little better to the [...]
The State newspaper, which has been ahead of this story from the beginning, posts a statement from Jenny Sanford, wife of Mark Sanford, in which she discloses that she kicked the governor out of the house two weeks ago, long before his visit to Argentina. She also says she is willing to forgive and reconcile, [...]
The sagacious Don Fowler Sr.–former chairman of both the South Carolina and national Democratic parties–notes that the old joke used to be that when Democrats got into trouble, it was over sex; when Republicans did, it was over money. That’s the reason, the punchline went, that there were so many more Democrats than Republicans. But [...]
I’ll give Mark Sanford this: After all of the terse, tight-lipped, vague apologies for an offense that’s not ever really spelled-out, it was almost refreshing to hear a politician explain–and explain and explain–what he’d done wrong. And it was most definitely a relief to not see the scorned wife by his side.
If, on the odd chance, you’re a fan of C-SPAN, you may have noticed that the House has been stuck voting on motions to adjourn – four of them today thus far. That is because the GOP is protesting – as they have been for a week. The scuffle started when Dems moved to cut [...]
The Obama Administration has decided to send a U.S. Ambassador back to Syria, for the first time since Margaret Scobie was pulled by the Bush Administration, which was protesting the likely involvement of the Syrian government in the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. This is a wise move on several grounds. It is [...]
Karen may be swearing off more posts about Mark Sanford’s Excellent Adventure, but I can’t resist one more. This line from the AP story about the governor’s last-minute Argentina jaunt caught my eye: Sanford told The State he was alone on the trip to Argentina. He declined to give any additional details about what he [...]
