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Why gays and liberals need to stop scapegoating the black community for Prop 8

I touched on this briefly in the previous post, but I can’t stress enough how counterproductive it is for the gay and liberal community to scapegoat African-Americans for the passage of Prop 8.  Today,...

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Rush Limbaugh’s strategy for rebuilding the Republican Party: Insult women

I realize conservatives are in a bit of disarray right now, but throwing over half the American population under the bus strikes me as a poor strategy.  Here’s Rush Limbaugh earlier today, reacting to...

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Obama, Nancy Reagan, and “mutts like me”

Yesterday, in what could be described as an otherwise sober and successful first press conference, Barack Obama made two offhanded remarks that are raising eyebrows around the blogosphere.  The first:...

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Super Barack!

Whoever is doing these Barack Obama movie parodies needs to get an Academy Award or something. These are just outrageously entertaining, especially for those of us who grew up on these flicks. First...

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Andrew Sullivan stirs anti-black sentiment among gays, then condemns it

Today, there are more reports of the fallout from recent gay and liberal efforts to blame African-Americans for Tuesday’s gay marriage ban in California, Proposition 8.  At a No on 8 rally earlier this...

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Ayers and Wright occupy the same room at the same time, conservative...

The conservative movement was destroyed today in a spectacular implosion of anti-matter particles and right-wing talking points, as former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers walked into an auditorium at...

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Rahm Facts: Rahm Emanuel hates Arbys

Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s new White House chief of staff, finally gets the Chuck Norris treatment he has so long deserved.  The only difference is that all these facts are true.  Check out what...

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Barack Obama’s political dream team

Great piece on Sunday by 60 Minutes on the inner circle that propelled Barack Obama to the White House.  Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Anita Dunn all sat down for a joint interview...

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Nate Silver at 538: Black voters are NOT to blame for Prop 8

Over the last few days, I’ve written about the recent phenomena of gays and liberals placing a wildly disproportional amount of blame on African-Americans for the passage of Proposition 8– especially...

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Olbermann near tears over gay marriage issue + Gays should have right to not...

Keith Olbermann on Countdown yesterday was in near tears, as he gave an impassioned, typically melodramatic, and highly entertaining defense of gay marriage.  Take a look: First of all, I have to say...

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Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State?

There are a lot of reasons why this could work.  But for my money, the best reason for President-elect Obama is that it avoids the following nightmare scenario, as predicted by a group of hedge fund...

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Guardian: Clinton to accept Secretary of State offer

Just as I’m really beginning to sour on the idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State– and feeling hopeful that no news organization has yet corroborated HuffPo’s initial report last week that she...

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Al-Qaeda plays the race card against Barack Obama… no, seriously

In what is the clearest and most hilariously pathetic example of how far Al-Qaeda has fallen since 9/11, today they actually resorted to race-baiting President-elect Barack Obama. No, seriously:...

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50 fun facts you might not know about Obama, aka Barack is my new BFF

Recently, a British newspaper posted an article titled “Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know.”  (It’s really 51 facts, but– counting, brushing their teeth regularly, standing up to American...

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Rubbernecking the disaster of the 2008 election: the best of Train Wreck...

So in case it isn’t obvious by the two-month hiatus, Train Wreck Politics has pulled into the station.  Watching the inauguration yesterday (from the comfort of my couch) was surreal.  If a single day...

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