On Republican Folly, Baseball Analogies and the Twins

Allow me to use a baseball analogy for a moment. Say you are an aspiring Major League manager. Your best bet to get a job is with the beleaguered Minnesota Twins, a team that is currently 14.5 games out of first, has won only 16 out of 48 games and is in last place overall in the league. At this point in the...

Velvet Bentgrass-roots Group Exposed

Eleven checks totaling $2.75 million does not a grassroots movement make, that is unless you are talking about Velvet bentgrass-roots. AAN does, however, have to make certain public disclosures with the IRS, and the Washington Post has a story on what a new filing from the group shows: American Action...

Live, Up to the Minute Feed of All LBAN Blogs

Have you ever found yourself digging through a seemingly endless list of bookmarks searching in vain for that one blog you saved some time ago and thinking, “isn’t there a better way to keep up to date on my favorite blogs?” Me too. For years I used the blogrolls here at Comments from Left...

Sickening

I am pleased to see that the true compassion of the Republican party is coming out at these times of national disaster. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere...

LGBT Equality Battle in An Unusual Place – Burnaby, B.C., Canada

I have to admit up front that my daughter has attended public school in Burnaby for nearly four years now and while I have my qualms with this school district (hint, she has not made it through a single year where her teacher did not take an extended leave of absence… but I digress), their proposed...