The NAACP today stepped up it’s criticism of what the organization perceives as "racist acts of Tea Party protesters." In an email to members today, President and CEO of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization asked Americans to unify and "stop the racism." From Ben Jealous at the NAACP: We are not backing down. Yesterday, [...]
Patti On Tape: "Tell Them To Hold Up That F***ing Cubs S***. F*** them." I don’t have a picture of Patti Blagojevich. Never met her. Met the former Gov. several times. This picture comes from one of those meetings, taken in Matteson’s Lincoln Mall so many lifetimes ago, it seems now. Actually believed in him [...]
From our friends at the ACLU via ENEWSPF: In two related cases, a federal district court in Massachusetts has ruled that critical portions of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violate the federal Constitution. In striking down the section of the statute that bars federal legal protections to legally married same-sex couples, Judge Joseph [...]
What’s worse than two more years of a Democratic majority in Congress? A return to the disaster plan of the GOP. From the Washington Post: Architects of President Obama‘s 2008 victory are braced for potentially sizable Democratic losses in November’s midterm elections. But they say voters’ unease about a GOP takeover will help their party [...]
First, word from the latest CBS poll: Most Americans do not believe President Obama has a clear plan to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. Just 32 percent say Mr. Obama has a clear plan to deal with the oil leak, while 59 percent [...]
Illinois politics takes us down the rabbit hole once again. From Greg Hinz at Crain’s Chicago Business: The Democratic and Republican nominees for the U.S. Senate, Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk, gave their views on planning and environmental issues at a Metropolitan Planning Council lunch on Monday. But the news was what happened afterward: Mr. [...]
For all our readers, we have revised our About Turning Left page to include a caveat… Turning left is a collection of the musings and reflections of select authors, all of whom have been turning farther and farther left for quite some time. As the right continues to raise its ugly head, it is more [...]
From the live feed courteously provided by BP, May 31, 2010, ca. 10:45 CST. We need to face it: “They” have no idea what they’re doing. “They.” You know who “they” are. “They” are the ones who are supposed to know these things. “They” are the ones who say all those neat thing, you know, [...]
No kidding. Arizona superintendent Tom Horne is on the lookout for teachers who pronounce "comma" as "COH-ma." Oy. Vey. From Think Progress: Late last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Arizona Department of Education “recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must [...]
From the NYTimes: Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who bolted the Republican Party more than a year ago in a bid to salvage his Senate career as a Democrat, was defeated in a primary for his new party’s nomination on Tuesday, as Democratic primary voters turned against him and selected Rep. Joe Sestak for the [...]
