Republicans for Rape
I checked to make sure that the 30 Republican Senators who voted against Jamie Leigh Jones' anti-rape bill two weeks ago had wives and daughters. Mos...
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Helping Vets, Pets, and Primates
Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.
Republicans for Rape: Lets Get Real
Do the Senators against Al Franken's bill consciously support rape? Of course not. But their actions absolutely support a status quo in which rape and sexual violence flourish.
Projection TV: Real Americans Watch Fox News
Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.
Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz
What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.
Senate Passes Amendment To Prevent KBR and Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally)
Al Franken offered the amendment because of a KBR employee, age 19, who was raped by a bunch of KBR workers in Iraq. After she was rescued, she was informed that she couldn't take KBR to court.
Political Celebrity and Publishing Tastes
Angry books sell on emotion. That's why they'll always sell better than cooler, thoughtful books. It's also why they're soon forgotten.
Sen. Al Franken gets serious on free speech, net neutrality
Sen. Al Franken started his career as a comedian, but he's dead serious about the issue of net neutrality. Appearing Monday at the Future of Music pol...
Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action
The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
Key Senators, Krugman Call for Tariffs on High-Carbon-Footprint Imports
In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.
Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review
David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.
Rethink Learning, Now
Learning involves more than basic skills and regurgitating information. It requires higher-order skills and the capacity to digest, make sense of, and apply what we've been taught.
Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season
Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.
Al Franken, Perry Mason, and Health Care: An Unlikely Trilogy
At some point, we probably rooted for the same outcome of the episode, the same ending to the movie. Yet some of us are running this country now, while the rest of us are watching the news, wondering when our elected officials will get their acts together.
Obama's Second Hundred Days
Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."
If Obama Were Funnier, He'd Be a Lousy President
Comedians detach themselves form their surroundings, observing their social settings critically. In doing so, they put themselves outside the fray. People don't want their elected officials outside the fray.
Al Franken and the Sotomayor Hearings: A Senate Star Is Born
While colleagues on both sides of the aisle were debating old stories about the Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s, Franken focused like a laser-beam on the activism of the Roberts Court.
Ten Things to Do if an Uninvited, Unexpected "Guest" Appears at your Door
If you are "absolutely" sure they didn't already see you though a window or hear your voice, lie down anywhere they won't be able to spot you and try to breathe as softly as you can.
NRA Defeated In Key Gun Violence Prevention Vote: Elections Have Consequences
Today's vote is proof that hard work, and elections, have real-life consequences that can help save lives.
Healing Heroes and Helping Hounds
Operation Heroes and Hounds is a way to support the men and women who served our country, and give a second chance to the animals who ended up in shelters through no fault of their own.
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