By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 21st at 10:27 AM  | 

Thus spake Luke Visconti, management consultant and Gaffemaster © at large: Luke Visconti, owner of DiversityInc, first said on CNN that Tea Party leaders are “leveraging racism” and that they have risen to power with an “anti-black Obama” message. When the anchor noted that black members are active in the conservative movement, Visconti responded: “There were Jewish concentration guard camps. Weren’t there?” Real life. It | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 14th at 03:04 PM  | 

I mean it. This is not to be borne: NAACP accuses tea party of tolerating bigotry “We felt the time had come to stand up and say, ‘It’s time for the tea party to be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don’t tolerate bigots or bigotry among their members,’” NAACP President Ben Jealous said ahead of the debate. “We don’t have a | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  July 14th at 12:30 PM  | 

One of the greatest things about law school is all the free junk that gets thrown your way; I’ve seen a vast improvement over the free junk I got in undergrad. Not a beer coozie in sight, but here’s your free 2 GB jump drive! (INVALUABLE. LOVE. Sell my soul to Westlaw? Sign me up!) But still, it’s not really free. My tuition pays for | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 29th at 10:00 AM  | 

First, watch this: Now, listen to this: It’s not often you see a politician show emotion while under fire; normally, that’s reserved for the activists and the pundits and the people who don’t have to worry about campaign commercials showing them sobbing into their waffles every 28 seconds. Emotional leaders make people uncomfortable–especially those people who rely solely on soundbites when forming their opinions about | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 23rd at 11:48 AM  | 

Confession time. I am sometimes…mean…on the internet. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone more than a day without making a sarcastic comment, challenging a point, or posting an ironic LOLcat when words simply fail me. It’s just a part of the blogging culture, along with drinking enormous cups of coffee, having a love/hate relationship with Bill O’Reilly, and simultaneously shouting at the TV and tweeting | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 12th at 01:06 PM  | 

And now, for your daily dose of OUTRAGE and RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION: Hatemongering Mayor Throws Bottle Cap, Minorities Seek Justice…or something Mayor Tommy Battle, acting in frustration with councilman Richard Showers, threw a plastic bottlecap into the dais at the end of Thursday’s city council meeting. A member of the audience, the Rev. Mitchell Walker of Church Street CPCA, later that night sent a strongly worded | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 11th at 02:30 PM  | 

When it comes to California, if you hear hoofbeats, assume unicorns: California Spends $800K to Bolster Green Initiatives California is currently mired in a fiscal morass that seems almost intractable, with many in the Golden State blaming overspending by government for the state’s fiscal woes.  Assembly Democrats have proposed plugging the state’s budget hole via $9 billion in loans, whereas Senate Democrats want to suspend | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  June 7th at 03:45 PM  | 

Grab a helmet and get your popcorn ready: Iranian Aid Ships to Set Sail for Gaza Summer would be SO BORING without this whole #flotilla scandal. I don’t know what I’d do without it, honestly. If it weren’t for the TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR and/or TOTALLY HATEFUL AND SO RACIST Israeli strike on the so-called “Freedom Flotilla,” all we’d have to look forward to is the | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 28th at 04:04 PM  | 

h/t to Caleb Howe “1L,” or the first year of law school, is supposed to be the hardest year of any aspiring lawyer’s life. I was assured of this no less than 57 times during the course of my first day, which also introduced me to the concepts of “cold calls,” and “wetting your pants in public and, surprisingly, not being ashamed or judged for | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 25th at 06:14 PM  | 

The whole point of being in Congress is to represent the citizens who reside in your district. It’s a reasonable assumption that a Congressman’s effectiveness is only as strong as is his dedication to his district; it would also be reasonable to assume that the #1 indicator of dedication to a district is residence in that district. So, what do you do if you, an | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 24th at 02:46 PM  | 

As if he hasn’t made enough of a spectacle of himself already… As Economic Worries Worsen, White House Puts on the Glitz I have a lot of feelings about this, none of which have very much to do with how much money was spent entertaining a man who had the unmitigated gall to hold the floor of the Congress for the sole purpose of flaming | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  May 19th at 10:23 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries by Caleb Oh my little Congress critters, we have been naughty, now haven’t we? I’m really not sure I should continue this post, as it may or may not be exempt from the newest regulations allowing the Gestapo KGB federal government to break down the door to my apartment and arrest me for subversive behavior. (God forbid they see my twitter | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  March 30th at 11:23 AM  | 

This was originally posted at The Minority Report, and went out with a TaxDayTeaParty e-mail blast. I was sitting around today, ironing my white hood and thinking racist thoughts when, lo and behold, I saw Eric Cantor on my TV talking about how someone shot a bullet through a window at his campaign office. I want to know more! I hopped on the internet and | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  March 24th at 02:22 PM  | 

My good friend Ryan Kazmierczak threw this up on Facebook today; rather than let it founder in a sea of bar pictures and Farmville updates (incidentally, the “little lonely black sheep” is Raaaaacist© ), I decided to share it here. My fellow Conservatives, I am sure that you are faced with endless comments on how “healthcare is a right” and how the passage of this | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 11:50 AM  | 

Raise your hand if you’ve taken a truckload of garbage over your views on BambiCare. …yes, that seems like just about everyone. You can put your hands down. The votes are in, and the thing we hoped and prayed would not happen has happened. Since the vote, I have been cajoled, jabbed, and called names. A friend and colleague called me naïve and retarded—which, in | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  February 16th at 12:48 PM  | 

I’ve taken a lot of flack for my involvement in the Tea Party movement. The fact that I added “Proud 9/12′er” to my activities on Facebook caused a two-day commotion, in which I was labeled a racist (by default), a misogynist (why not?), a militia-loving anarchist, a homophobe, and (the horror) a Paul-ite Libertarian. I was able to get over it, except for the thing | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  February 9th at 11:04 AM  | 

h/t to Warner Todd Huston Is this real life? Captain America Says Tea Parties are Dangerous and Racist Facepalm. Whargarbl. ZOMG, WTF, etc. Throw in a little #SNOMG. I couldn’t really care less whether or not raving liberals call me names; it’s what they do best, and who am I to rob them of one of their few sources of entertainment? This, however, is outrageous: | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 12:23 PM  | 

I love the military. I don’t come from a military family per se, but my daddy was a SEAL in Vietnam, and I’ve been taught a healthy respect and gratitude for the men and women who keep me safe everyday. I do not tolerate careless, salacious, or hypercritical, ignorant comments about the United States Military. So, needless to say, when I saw this little gem | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 14th at 10:57 AM  | 

I don’t normally pay a lot of attention to people I don’t particularly care about. I’ve been called enough names and accused of enough BS to know that the battle usually isn’t worth my time. But this one was just too much fun to pass up. If you know me or my writing at all, you’ll know I have a bit of a history regarding | Read More »

By: Amy Miller (Diary)  |  August 10th at 02:01 PM  | 

You know, every once in a while these people redeem themselves. Juuuuust a little bit. Ordering Pizza in 2010 I don’t know about you guys, but I got tense just listening to this. It might sound ridiculous, but after everything that’s been revealed since January, I can see this happening in America. With the amount of rhetoric that’s spun every day by Obama and his | Read More »