Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, as conservative and dare I say reactionary as they come, launches his own PAC: “Liberty Now.”
… or a member of the Hutaree Christian militia: Hang a big map on the wall and redraw the lines to divvy up the country among you and your pals and rename cities and towns to your liking, using your own names. Fun stuff.
With Justice Stevens hinting a retirement might be coming soon, we look at the names being bandied about as his possible replacement and how each Democrats and Republicans are revving up for another SCOTUS battle royale (judiciale?)
Rielle Hunter will do Oprah next. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Ever since that unfortunate turn of events with the Hutaree Christian militia up in Michigan, the folks the feds had to round up for plotting to kill a police officer and then ambush his funeral procession with Iraq-style IEDs, the good militia brand has taken a bit of a beating.
So this Saturday the folks who I guess we’re supposed to think of as coming from the ‘mainstream’ militia movement, the so-called ‘Michigan militia’, are hosting a family-oriented “Open Carry Family Picnic & Tea Party” to show the true face of the lifestyle and help “take the stigma out of the word ‘militia.'”
Join our Rachel Slajda as she journeys through the fever swamp of right-wing Census paranoia.
And before you get too cocky, are you really so sure that the Census isn’t a plot send you to an internment camp or make you marry the gay guy who looked at you the wrong way at Denny’s last week?
Last month Juneau County (WI) District Attorney Scott Southworth sent out 24 letters to top officials in the county 5 school districts telling them to suspend sex education classes in their schools or face possible charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. “Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender,” Southworth wrote. (Someone apparently has a pretty healthy attitude toward sex.)
I’m usually not very sympathetic to arguments that the big corporations are destroying our culture. But then I hear something like this and I have to wonder. Mattel is changing the rules of Scrabble to allow proper nouns.
WTF?
Late Update: Alas, some utterly spoilsport readers have pointed out that the BBC report was, shall we say, a tad overstated.
A federal judge has ruled that Norman Leboon, the man charged with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and his family, is not fit to stand trial and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment.