Daily Archives: April 13, 2010

Sarah Palin’s Nuclear Weapons Policy Primer

The Tea Partier alternative to Barack Hussein Obama’s nuclear weapons policy is here! We’ll save Australia. Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo.

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A Song for Barack Obama: “Stuck in the Middle with You”

Barack Obama picked a hell of a time to be president: he’s a centrist politician who, in addition to inheriting a number of seemingly intractable economic and foreign policy dilemmas, is surrounded by total nut cases to one side of him … Continue reading

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Obama: “He’s a thinker, he thinks when he speaks . . . [and] he’s eager to listen”

A thinker in the Oval Office, and someone who listens. What a nice thing it is to have the leaders of other countries express respect for our president’s intelligence, human empathy, and ability to hear someone while in dialogue. Here’s … Continue reading

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Diane Wood for the Supreme Court: Strong for Gay Equality, Women’s Rights, and the Separation of Church and State

Of the main contenders for Justice Stevens’s Supreme Court seat, Diane Wood sounds great to me. Here’s what AlterNet says about her: Diane Wood is 59 and has been a federal appeals judge “since Clinton tapped her in 1995 after … Continue reading

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