Labor Secretary Hilda Solis uses gay-baiting slur in public.

    It’s not turning into a good year for the Obama administration – in fact, it’s not been a good administration for the Obama administration – but I think that this is hardly an excuse for a Cabinet level official to use low-rent sexual epithets in public: At the Florida Democratic Party State Convention over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis insulted members of | Read More »

    Ethical oil’s excellent enemies: Saudi Arabia & Think Progress.

    One of the nicest things about being a mainstream supporter of the Global War on Terror is that you are blessed, for a given value of ‘blessed,’ with a collection of the vilest, most despicable, most appalling domestic enemies in recent political history. Nazis, Communists, Stalinists, Maoists, blackshirt anarchists, Jew-haters of various flavors, anti-human deep ecologists, anti-Israel conspiracy theorists… honestly, by the time that the | Read More »

    G20 Protesters murder man in London. [Bumped: and the cops may have lent a hand.]

    [UPDATE] And when they pull in the sick buggers that threw the bottles, make sure that none of these guys do the pulling in. But don’t preen, ye blackshirts. The cops may have committed manslaughter. Your fellow-protesters are still on the hook for murder. Yes, murder. When you attack people trying to save someone’s life – someone who is dying – then you have made | Read More »