Line in the Sand — at Low Tide?

For the record, Barack Obama appears still capable of taking an actual stand on something. The text of his letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in California.

Truth and Patty Cake

It seems this is the outrage of the weekend:

A Birthday Treat for Nelson

Better late than never.

The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list… 

Issue Wedgies on the Campaign Trail

You’d think we’d come a long ways from the days of “no Irish need apply,” and all the other exclusionary nonsense that passed for all-Americanism. Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs point out that if that’s what you think, you might be mistaken:

Plus ca Change

Every baby boomer has to remember this:

 

Skelos is In

I remember Dean Skelos when he was a young guy. He was distinguished by his dream. Everyone knew back then that Dean Skelos wanted to be Senate Majority Leader some day. And so it has come to pass:

So Long, Joe

Well, knock us over with a feather.

Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader and New York State’s highest-ranking Republican, said Monday evening that he would not seek re-election in November, after a 32-year career in the Senate.

Tax Cap? Poll This!

Well, what is real? Is there a mandate for a tax cap, or not?

What Obama Did; What We Can Do

Here’s what Barack Obama said in supporting the new FISA bill:

Hiding From the Red Cross

One of the bombshells among the 25 documents released Tuesday by Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in his probe of cruel treatment of detainees in President Bush’s “war on terror” are minutes of a meeting that demonstrates that –

The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday…