Liberal Talk Radio

Nate Silver puts Martha Coakley’s chances at winning today at about 25%. We’re well past the point where we can deny that access to basic health care is a basic human right in an industrialized country. Further, the failure to pass health care reform will demonstrate the extent to which our country is beholden to [...]

Dan Savage read this and said, WTF? A handful of gay-rights proponents sided with Republicans in the Democratic-controlled House to vote down the bill 188-186 Wednesday, hours after the Senate approved the gay-marriage legislation by 14-10 along party lines. I had a similar reaction. New Hampshire has almost 400 legislators in the lower house? And [...]

Indeed, it would be interesting to nominate a pregnant woman as Secretary of Labor. Do you think her husband will get freaked out when she leaves the house every morning for work and says, “Honey, I’m going into labor!”

Do you remember these guys from before September 11? That was a while ago. That’s quite the disclaimer at the end. True.

You think Grease is subtle?

“God willin’ an’ th’ crick don’ rise”, as they say, it may be all over but the hangover. In a diatribe against the GOP’s increasingly militant anti-intellectualism, David Brooks throws Sarah Palin under the bus. … over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated [...]

C’mon Lynn, I bet “uppity” isn’t what you say in private. I bet you want to say more, to tell the press all about Obama. C’mon, Lynn, let’s get it done. Your party needs your honesty!

No one seems to want to claim them: Paris Hilton probably won’t be invited to Barack Obama’s home anytime soon, even though the celebrity heiress dug her nails into GOPer John McCain in a recent video spoof. “Malia and Sasha are very down on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton,” said Barack Obama, referring to his [...]

Dan Savage elucidates something I’ve been thinking for a while. Noting the new attack ad on Al Franken that accuses him of being a latte-sipping elitist, Dan writes: Do Republican politicians and campaign consultants ever actually go to the heartland they never shut up about? I travel a fair bit and there are Starbucks literally [...]

Obama in his Father’s Day Chris Rock spiel: Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who sat in the front pew, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make, telling the mostly black audience not to [...]