AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR PRESIDENT:

Dear Mr. President:

It is apparent that the Republican party continues to marginalize what can best be described as your historical victory this past November. One repeated message, “We The People,” consistently hear from the Republican Party and correspondents from their Running Mate, Fox News, is how this previous election was a status-quo election, in [...]

Three year-old Tripp Palin calls his aunt a “fu–er”

Watch as three year-old Tripp Palin calls his aunt a “fu–er” during an episode of Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp, Bristol Palin’s reality TV show on Lifetime.

Tripp Palin Calls His Aunt A “F***”

What’s most disconcerting about this video is the fact that both adults in the room are laughing along with [...]

New Attack on Romney: Mitt Get’s Worse

A new progressive attack on the impact of Mitt’s election on GLBT Americans with “Mitt Gets Worse”. [...]

In Which Bristol Palin is Sorely Ill Treated; and we all Smile With Delight

This is the must-read editorial of the year so far. Frank Bruni takes Bristol Palin and the whole hypocritical, self-righteous wing of the Republican party to task. His abhorrence of Little Miss Palin seems unquenchable.

Bristol Palin

so perfectly distills the double standards and audacity of so many of our country’s self-appointed moralists and supposed [...]

Marriage Equality, President Obama, and Freedom of Religion

“…I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” President Obama

I had started down this path earlier this week in response to Vice President Joe Biden’s comments from Sunday May 6th edition of Meet [...]

Fox News Lives Down To All My Expectations

Epic.

Oh but wait… It gets better. Fox Nation has a participation policy that reads

Fox Nation is opposed to “excessive government control of their lives” apparently with the caveat that it doesn’t apply to women or gay Americans wanting the same rights as everyone [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

WOOT!

OBAMA: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen [...]

The Left Triumphant!

In Europe, at least. France has a new Socialist President, François Hollande. While the Euro traded lower this morning (no surprise), the opposition in Germany, both politically and to the ongoing austerity pact with France, was energized.

Ms. Merkel’s political opponents, though, seemed cheered. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the opposition Social Democrats, said on [...]

Free Market Capitalism

On The Absurdity of Domestic Labor

Some people have all the luck… The conjuring trick that is domestic labor!

But the brouhaha over Hilary Rosen’s injudicious remarks is not really about whether what stay-home mothers do is work. Because we know the answer to that: it depends. When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work—difficult, sacred, [...]