Folks, for all of you who celebrate, we wish you a Merry Christmas.
Vice President Biden says gay marriage “an inevitability.” Watch.
Remembering the biggest battles in this year’s War on Christmas (WOC).
Just in time for Christmas our Ryan Reilly reviews America’s War on Christianity, by Brad O’Leary and just published by World Net Daily Books.
Our Brian Beutler looks at the top five winners and top five losers of the lame duck session of the 111th Congress.
Kentucky’s new ‘Creationist Theme Park’ gets preliminary okay for state tax incentives/subsidies.
I actually was brainstorming about a possible title when I came up with ‘Ark Park’. But actually, as I read the piece, I see that the actual name if Ark Encounter.
I’m not feeling that either of these really resonate for me. Anyone else have good ideas? Six Flags something, somethingLand? Whaddya got?
Late Update: Okay, we’ve got some pretty funny and pretty silly suggestions so far. But I have to say I think TPM Reader JA is the winner so far with ‘Park of the Covenant’.
TPM Reader DN is thinks there might be a Kwame surge …
Has there ever been a two-time winner?
That’s why I am pulling for our local pride and joy, Kwame Kilpatrick, in the Local Venue category. Based upon the vote results, which I have been (pathetically) monitoring, it appears that there is some Kwamentum. He is inching closer and closer to third place in the reader’s poll. Perhaps news that he is working on a book while in prison on probation violations and facing 38 indictments for corruption that, in my opinion, more than rivals the Bell, CA scandal will help his cause:
Here’s a piece on the book.
My favorite part is the book title:
“Surrendered: The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick”
Our Hill reporter Brian Beutler has his own take on why the Republicans seemed to give way on so many key votes in the final weeks. The key point — a number of these issues were going to come up again next year and not in particularly helpful ways.
As I noted yesterday, we’re letting TPM Readers vote this year on who should win the Golden Duke in each of the eight categories. The latest results are below the fold and instructions on how you can vote.
Some of the leaders so far don’t surprise me too much. Christine O’Donnell is holding on to a substantial and I suspect insurmountable lead in the Meritorious Achievement in The Crazy category. And there’s a tight race between Michele Bachmann and Sharron Angle for Unrefudiated Champion of Tea Party Wackiness. (I voted for Angle.) What did jump out at me though was the voting in Most Outrageous Election Season Fib Issued By A Politician. I’m not sure I would have seen one of the fives nominees as the standouts. But TPM Readers don’t see it that way. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is running away with it (over 68% of the votes) for her claims of a rash of beheadings of Arizonans by crazed illegal immigrants.
Need a closer look at the data? Full results after the jump. Read More