Loathsome Ted’s Record Before the Supreme(s)

I think I’ve finally figured out why Ted Cruz inspires such loathsomeness among all but his most dedicated followers. The answer is: Time Travel! The thesis is this: Someone has invented a two-seater time machine, traveled back into the past, to either the time of the Spanish Inquisition or the Salem witch trials, and brought forward their chief prosecutor…. It’s called “judicial activism,” or in this case, a variant and precursor thereof. If there is any remaining doubt that that judicial activism, the bete noire of conservatives, is anything but their projection aimed at liberal and progressive politicians, then one need only point to its walking, talking embodiment — Ted Cruz.

First US Corp to Run For Congress

In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s deplorable ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, wherein corporations were given the same rights as individuals and afforded the right to spend unlimited amounts of “free speech” cash to back candidates of their choosing; and in the spirit of the Yippies of the Sixties and the Yes Men of today, …

The War On Empathy (Update 1)

Having failed in their previous wars—the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on anything not right wing crazy, the Rethugs have launched a new one—the war on empathy.

Supremes Slap Jr. Over Habeus Violations

Photo credit to newsgroups.derkeiler.com How dare the highest court in the land hold our resident White House psychopath accountable for anything, let alone violating the US Constitution, which Bush is said to have called “just a goddamn piece of paper.” Same goes for Dem senators like Carl Levin who supported The Military Commissions Act— Bush’s complicit enablers. Glenzilla does the …