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Posts from ‘May, 2009’

Guest Host Leo Gold

On this week’s Partisan Gridlock….Leo Gold takes over and wonders whether Pacifica ought to follow GM’s lead into reorganization. That’s tonight from 10:00-11:00PM on KPFT, 90.1 in Houston.

Dick: Please Keep Talking

“But in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground. . . ” Dick Cheney, 5-21-09.
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”  Barry Goldwater, July 16, 1964.

Update: Plus, it’s not every day that a (formerly) major American political party stands up for those parts of the constitution that codified the enslavement of [...]

Anti-Gay Marriage Activist Defends Ad

On this week’s Partisan Gridlock, we’re joined by Maggie Gallagher, President of the anti-same sex marriage National Organization for Marriage. NOM has been running this ad in New Hampshire:

We’ll ask Ms. Gallagher whether having to teach kids something new is really as bad as all that.
Plus, pledge drive concludes with a gigantic session of giving [...]

Tonight: Meat So Red It’ll Make You Want to Pledge

KPFT’s pledge drive continues and we’ve got what you’re looking for. Tonight, remarkable idiocy from “opposite marriage’s” newest spokesmodel / Constitutional scholar, Carrie Prejean, who says that her First Amendment rights are being violated because there are people who disagree with her.
Also tonight, the Republican Party finds the forward-looking strategy it’s been searching for. This [...]

Texas Supreme Court to Three Year Old Leukemia Victim: Tough Luck

Tort “reform” has finally reached its logical conclusion:
The Texas Supreme Court has wiped out a $7.64 million judgment in a 9-year-old case centered on a San Antonio girl diagnosed with leukemia [] at age 3. . .
A Bexar County state district court in 2003 ordered San Antonio to pay the family $23 million, a judgment [...]