Liberal Talk Radio

Just when I start to believe the vast HRC conspiracy about Obama’s supposed thinness, Bruno encourages me to take a look at the man’s website.
He’s right. So let’s start with Obama’s “Sportsmen” platform:
Barack Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers and has [...]

The Garden State is the new bastion of progressive politics, says the Times:
“They’re a new leader,” said Joel Rogers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the director of the Center for State Innovation, which describes itself as a progressive public-policy research institute.
“It’s not just California anymore, it’s New Jersey,” Mr. [...]

Was the freelance/permalance labor strife at Viacom precipitated by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s overaggressive meddling? In other words, was a freelance-employer relationship that actually provided benefits to freelancers stupidly, unaccountably deemed illegal by Spitzer so that the upshot is that now none of them will get benefits? It seems that way:
Not every employer is [...]

When Sam Brownback raised his hand to indicate that he doesn’t believe in evolution, what he meant to say was:
If belief in evolution means simply assenting to microevolution, small changes over time within a species, I am happy to say, as I have in the past, that I believe it to be true. If, on [...]

After reading the first few paragraphs of Al Gore’s book excerpt in Time, I became convinced that Gore had not, in fact, invented the internet. This is because his discussion of the destruction of democracy seems so… 1990s. All this stuff about TV as a “one-way” medium, consolidation of ownership, etc.
But, [...]

The great thing about used CDs is that they give the record industry a chance to shoot itself in the foot all over again:
New “pawn shop” laws are springing up across the United States that will make selling your used CDs at the local record shop something akin to getting arrested. No, you won’t spend [...]

Belgians are so, so weird:
During the week, Ivonne Janssens, 57, is a hospital cleaner. But come the weekend, she climbs the narrow steps of a three-story medieval tower and turns into a 14th-century duchess with a faux-emerald necklace, a linen headdress, a leather satchel full of fake gold coins and a retinue of mercenaries to [...]

The meaningless and pork-laden vote to end the Iraq war was something special. But then Democrats do one better by resurrecting the Equal Rights Amendment. No, seriously:
“Women’s equality has been for too long a dream deferred,” Congessmember Carolyn Maloney declared as she joined with several other House and Senate members last week to reintroduce the [...]

Hey, Sara Corbett — congratulations, you got your most E-mailed Times story. Too bad one of your three sources seems to have made shit up:
Big trouble at the New York Times Magazine this morning, as an editors’ note reveals that one of the women who appeared in last week’s cover story on female Iraq veterans [...]

This is better than a film script:
Reeling from the news that his great-grandfather was once enslaved to the family of Strom Thurmond, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday he wants a DNA test to learn whether he and the segregationist senator share a bloodline.
“I’ll do it,” said Sharpton. “I can’t find out anything more shocking [...]