Remember a couple weeks ago when a GOP legislator from Colorado got in a bit of trouble for going off at a public hearing on poverty on the role of fried chicken in keeping blacks poor. Well, now a fellow Rep. brought a box of Popeye’s Fried Chicken to the Capitol as a silent protest against the rising tide of intolerance over saying crazy stuff about black people.

I guess the Zimmerman precedent isn’t enough down in Florida. A Florida man is citing both the state’s Stand Your Ground law and the so-called “Bush Doctrine” to justify shooting and killing two neighbors at a Labor Day Barbecue.

When you see the GOP pulling out all the stops to sabotage and undermine the roll-out of Obamacare, you realize that this is what they’re scared of.

With your help, we’re keeping close tabs on where senators and representatives stand on the Syria use of force vote. Keep sending in what you’re seeing in your area (the “Send Comments & News Tips” link is at the top right of this page). It’s a big help.

Here are the running tallies in the Senate and House: Read More

Since I proposed the first non-contiguous, virtual state, conglomerating together all the counties and groups of counties in the country that want to leave their states because, in most cases, their states are trending Democratic, I’ve gotten a slew of responses. They’ve ranged from complaints of urban bias, to fellow-guffawing and many things in between. But the most interesting have been those on the roots of the secession movement in northern California. (Many people mean the Bay Area by ‘northern California’. But here I mean, real northern California, as in, the part in the North of the state.) Read More

In case you missed it yesterday: Eric Holder has informed Congress that the Obama administration will not enforce a law that limits veterans benefits to spouses of the opposite sex.

Meet the 75-year-old, hetero-married county clerk who unilaterally started the same-sex marriage revolution in New Mexico.

Stewart returns: “You know what, senator? Go. There’s a rascal scooter and a bucket of quarters with your name on it over at the “Golden Nugget.” You can play all the video poker you want, 99 cent prime rib. Instead of playing pretend poker in the actual Senate, go to an actual casino and pretend you know what the government should do.”

A Tulsa school told 7 year old Tiana Parker her dreadlocks were not acceptable as part of its policy that states that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”

Around the time those fireworks were going on with sorta candidate Anthony Weiner today in New York, I went out to get a coffee and about a block and a half from our office walked into a press event for Bill de Blasio, the guy who you’d have to say at this point is the most likely person to become the next Mayor of New York. Read More