Can brain scans explain the depth of right wing anger & prejudice?
My first diary... be kind please! Could this article by Amy Ellis Nutt, explain how the growth of right wing talk radio turned otherwise sentient citizens into rabid, prejudiced, gay-baiting,...
View ArticleAlabama GOP Dogfight: Pull up a chair!
How often do you get to see a judicial dogfight between members of the same party? In Alabama, where one sitting justice told a newspaper editorial board that "It irritates me that nobody respectable...
View ArticleAlabama Responds to Fred Phelps
Fred Phelps has announced that he's bringing his "God Hates Fags" roadshow to Alabama this weekend to picket the funerals of the high school students killed in the Huntsville, AL school bus accident...
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[updated] LIVEBLOGGING: Alabama Democrats Welcome Ron Sparks to Madison Co....
Ron Sparks arrived, gave a barnburner speech, and hung out at the blog for a while:It's a beautiful sunny day in North Alabama and we're all still riding high from President Bill Clinton's...
View ArticleAlabama Legislature Playing Chicken W/ the Consitution - AGAIN
Drifting up like swamp gas from Montgomery is the pungent odor of yet another costly, destined-to-fail constitutional challenge to the First Amendment.Folks, meet "Christian Heritage Week" in Alabama -...
View ArticleAlabama Party Primaries: The Ugly Facts of Life
There was a front-page fracas about Ron Sparks (AL state Agriculture Commissioner and possible Senate candidate) on Saturday here at DailyKos. Unfortunately, I was slaving in my vegetable garden and...
View ArticleFew Are Guilty, But All Are Responsible
Few are guilty, but all are responsibleHere in Alabama, we're just a few hours before the start of Yom Kippur and I decided to read some essays by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - one of the greatest...
View ArticleUp Close at an Iowa Caucus - Crowds, Debates, & Hustling for Votes
I would have liked to have posted this Thursday night or Friday, but stupidly stayed in a place without Internet access!! Anyway, finally arrived home in Alabama late last night and thought, well,...
View ArticleNorth Alabama to See 60 Minutes/Siegelman Story - a day late!
Well, all Hell broke loose among North Alabama Democrats and Progressives last night when our local CBS affiliate - WHNT - went on the fritz. Yes, we know that every station has problems at some...
View ArticleStuart Rothenberg: "Journalists willing to give McCain a Free Pass"
Cross posted at Left in AlabamaYesterday's Jewish Vote Seminar sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) was a wide-ranging discussion whose implications for the 2008 election went far...
View ArticleYet Another Thing That Senator Sessions Doesn't Know
Cross-posted at Left in AlabamaAdd this one to the already painfully long list of things that Alabama's junior senator does not know. At his health care town hall meeting in Huntsville, AL this...
View ArticleRon Sparks Considering Run for AL-05
Great news for Alabama Democrats and anyone who wants to send Parker Griffith home to his funeral home business and return AL-05 to the Democratic column!cross-posted at Left In AlabamaAlabama...
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Richard Shelby's Pork Tram Takes Taxpayers For $2.6 Million Ride
What do you get when you cross so-called "deficit hawk" Senator Richard Shelby and a $2.6 million North Alabama pork project? You get an empty tourist tram that traveled for 4 weekends - on a...
View ArticleThis Isn't The First Time American Cities Were Occupied. Remember the Bonus...
Few actions are as shocking as a government turning on its own citizens. Americans have grown used to that spectacle in other parts of the world, but we're generally surprised when it happens here....
View ArticleSurprise, Surprise, Surprise! AL GOP Admits Immigration Law Is Flawed
It's finally occured to the geniuses in the Alabama Legislature that HB-56 is a disaster for the state. Ya think, guys? Seems like some of them woke up on the sane side of the bed for a change.A week...
View ArticleChair of Committee Considering Alabama "Ultrasound" Bill is VP of an...
Can you say "conflict of interest,"Greg Reed? He's the Alabama state senator that heads the "Health" committee. Yesterday, the committee approved SB12 - a bill essentially the same as the Virginia...
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AL Supreme Court Candidate Fills Facebook With Anti-Gay Hate Speech
Welcome to Harry Lyon's little shop of bigotry, folks.While it's fun to mock the dim bulbs that comprise Alabama GOP leadership, we'd be remiss if we didn't draw your attention to the recent Facebook...
View ArticleAlabama Sheriff Thinks He's A Constitutional Scholar
Add this nugget to Alabama's long, sordid history of our elected officials pledging to ignore federal laws. But at least Madison County Sheriff Blake Dorning tries to dress his pig in a Supreme Court...
View ArticleAlabama State Boy Scout Leadership Email Respects "Courage" Of Churches That...
Judging by this email sent to scout masters & sponsors this week, Alabama's state Boy Scout leadership seems a bit less than committed to full inclusion. At least that's how the scouting...
View ArticleAL Chief Justice Roy Moore Misquotes "Plessy vs Ferguson" During Award Ceremony
You have to hand it to Judge Roy Moore. It takes real balls to give a speech praising Plessy vs Ferguson minutes after a group of African-American pastors has hung a "Letter from the Birmingham Jail...
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It's Time To Look Away, Dixieland
As a born and bred Southerner (7th generation Alabama native), I’m told I come with a ready-made set of assumptions when I mention that fact to someone from another part of the country. Well, when you...
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Huntsville, AL Abortion Protester: "I Hear There Are Some Vacancies In...
The usual contingent of anti-choice protesters lined up outside the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, AL today – fewer than 24 hours after three people were killed inside a Planned Parenthood...
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Alabama Politicians Really Need To Stay OFF Social Media.
Here’s the joke: “how many days since Alabama has been a laughingstock in the news? ZERO.” Unfortunately, the easy access of Alabama political leaders to social media and other outlets is really bad...
View ArticleAlabama Rabbi Urges Congressman Mo Brooks To Meet With State's Muslim Community
For AL-05 Congressman Mo Brooks, a "charm offensive" translates into "no charm; always offensive." Hey, if there's a budget crisis, national tragedy, or disaster, you can be sure that Brooks will seize...
View ArticleUPDATED: AL-04 - 5 Police Cars Respond When 9 Senior Citizens Visit Rep....
A small group (9 people) of "Democratic anarchists" descended on Rep. Bob Aderholt's district office on February 21st. The canny intruders, armed with walkers and canes, moved slowly towards the...
View ArticleAL-05 Mo Brooks: Town Hall Invite Is An "Attempt to Make the Democrat [sic]...
AL-05 Rep. Mo Brooks’ office responded to a town hall meeting invitation with a partisan rant and a demand to know if former AL-05 Democratic congressmen ever met with Republicans.Brooks is famous in...
View ArticleAL-05 Mo Brooks Kicked Off Senate Campaign In His District. Special Guests...
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer isn’t the only prominent Republican who likes to hide in the bushes. AL-05 Congressman Mo Brooks kicked off his statewide press conference blitz in Huntsville,...
View ArticleRasmussen Polling Head-to-Head Trump vs Harris ONLY?
I just got the oddest polling phone call. An automated poll from 214-283-1316 that said it was from Rasmussen polling. The ONLY head-to-head match-up polled in the call (which lasted about 10...
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