Pastor David Grisham of Amarillo is not shy about his fundamentalism. He recently set up a website encouraging Christians to boycott Houston because, in his words, the election of an openly gay mayor and opening of a Planned Parenthood facility in the city: are [] abomination[s] in the eyes of God and should be boldly confronted by Christians seeking to...
Democratic leadership to party activists: You dirty hippies just stay home in November
No doubt President Obama will deliver an inspiring and substantively appealing State of the Union speech tonight. With a year of history as a guide, it seems unlikely that either the White House or Congressional leadership will have the guts to stand up for anything he says. (Last year, Obama promised to “call out” Republicans who lied about...
This week’s Partisan Gridlock
Who de-balled the Democrats? The obscene Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court which will permit ExxonMobil to decide who serves in what office…plus listener calls and quotes of the week. Listen here.
Heads I win, tails you lose — in Massachusetts and everywhere else
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown, the Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Martha Coakley yesterday, ran a great campaign. Coakley ran a horrible one — expressing shock that anyone would think that she needed to stand in the cold to shake hands with actual voters. She spent more than a week vacationing when she should have been campaigning...
Live update from Haiti – Updated
Today on Partisan Gridlock, we’ll get a live update directly from Port-au-Prince from Danny Biran, coordinator of Israel’s Haitian rescue efforts. We’ll find out what conditions are like on the ground, how the rescue and recovery effort is going, what rescuers are seeing, and what they expect over the days and weeks to come. Update: In addition...
