Doonesbury

Everyone should be checking out the latest Doonesbury series.  It's about a Fox News reporter embedded with the military in Afghanistan.  In today's best line a female GI says of Fox News:  "It's like getting your news from the town drunk."

Ann Romney

I am sure that Ann Romney is a fine woman and a wonderful mother.  And when you run into her at Aldi or Walmart, I'm sure you can share many parenting stories that you have in common with her.

Christian Life Resources and Politics (Part 10)

The fact that Christian Life Resources (CLR) is a shill for right-wing extremists and the Republican Party is now beyond dispute.  As a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)--with which this group is supposedly affiliated--I find this appalling to no end.  It is only compounded by CLR's dishonesty in trying to claim otherwise.

This fact is proven almost every day on CLR's website, but nowhere is it more apparent than in its choice of speakers at its national conventions.  Cal Thomas has been keynote speaker for at least two conventions in the past.  In 2010, the right-wing blogger/columnist Patrick McIlheran was a featured speaker.  And now, following the 2012 convention, there is a fundraising dinner with featured speaker Charlie Sykes, the well-known extreme right-wing talk radio host in Milwaukee.

The fact that Christian Life Resources (and apparently the WELS) fails to see the inappropriateness of this blatant and unabashed political activism shows how deeply entrenched they have become in the world of right-wing politics.