Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Reuters AlertNet - Vatican calls Catholic politicians into line I'm all for religious freedom, but it's a two way street. I pity the first Catholic legislator in the US who admits to taking direct orders form an eighty year old Polish guy who tolerates widespread pedophilia. And didn't I read somewhere that the problem with Islamic fundamentalists is that they can't separate their religion from their government.
This isn't a road we want to go down. I call on all Catholic legislators to remind the Pope that they are civil, not religious representatives. Their vow is to the Constitution and not the Catholic Church of Rome.
posted by Dave on 8:09 PM | 0 comments link

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