ACLU Defends Christian Students' Anti-Islam T-Shirts
The ACLU of Florida has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Christian students who were told they couldn't wear t-shirts to school with the name of their church and a Bible verse on the front and "Islam is of the devil" on the back. The suit claims the Alachua County School District was inconsistent in handling the situations at each school, with some students being allowed to wear them with the back covered up while in other cases the shirts were banned altogether. Read the rest of this p

Dumbass Quote of the Day
From Sarah Palin, being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. This one was even too much for O'Reilly when she claimed that the media should have questioned Joe Biden about his experience rather than questioning her about hers. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

Rhetorical Technique vs Reality
You've probably read about this silly little brouhaha about someone hacking an email account and getting emails from some climate scientists talking about their data. The Worldnutdaily and most of the rest of the right wing blogosphere has exploded with ridiculous claims about it, distorting those emails to prove that global warming is a fraud. Rational people, like the folks at RealClimate, James Hrynyshyn and

Obama Contradictions on Civilian Trials
Glenn Greenwald continues to attack the Obama administration from the civil libertarian position on the subject of civilian trials for terror detainees and it's difficult to argue with him on any basis other than pure politics. The question is obvious: If KSM should be tried in civilian courts, why not everyone else who was not actually captured on the battlefield being held at Gitmo? Can anyone reconcile Obama's homage to "our legal traditions" and his professed faith in jury trials in the New York federal courts with the reality of what his administration is doing: i.e., denyin

Palin: Limbaugh Lite
Matt Taibbi has a provocative post on his blog that I'm not sure I agree with, but it contains some really amusing and well-written elements. Basically, he declares Sarah Palin to be Rush Limbaugh for those who can't even handle the kind of discourse Limbaugh lays out. I think he does rather overstate Limbaugh's credibility, however, in this bit: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...