Why can’t our media in Southern California be more like this? Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal leveled a colorful if well-worn zinger at Democrats and at Las Vegas on Tuesday in the nationally broadcast Republican response to the president’s address to…
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Racism We Can Believe In?
by Andrew Davey • • 5 Comments
What’s going on in Los Alamitos? Why did Mayor Dean Grose send this email? Grose’s e-mail included the picture with a heading that read, “No Easter Egg hunt this year.” “I think he’s saying that since there’s a black president,…
Whither “Bipartisanship”?
by Andrew Davey • • 6 Comments
It seemed from the start that President Obama really wasn’t interested in the kind of raw partisan warfare that defined the Bush Era. After all, hasn’t Obama preached “the politics of unity”? But now, it seems like those happy dreams…
Don’t come to the table with the same tired arguments…
by Chris Prevatt • • 6 Comments
On Thursday night, February 5, 2009Â President Barack Obama spoke at the House Democratic Caucus Retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia. Worth watching! Transcript on the flip.
President Obama’s First Weekly Address
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In his first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama discusses how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy. “This is not just a short-term program to…
Why I Hope
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“Marriage isn’t a special right. Marriage is a civil right.” – Robin Tyler, one of the plaintiffs in the Prop H8 lawsuit currently before the California Supreme Court Yesterday, something amazing occurred. On a beautiful and sunny Sunday in Southern…
Bigotry We Won’t Believe In
by Andrew Davey • • 1 Comment
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this doozy of a Rec List diary at Daily Kos. Apparently, there’s plenty that Rick Warren hasn’t been honest about. His AIDS programs in Africa have forsaken the effective measures taken to…
