Brilliant humor: If I were a terrorist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXK...

McCain flip-flops on NRA  He once sought to push the NRA out of the GOP.
In Louisville, KY today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will address nearly 60,000 gun enthusiasts at the annual National Rifle Association convention. McCain requested the speaking spot, but, as Cliff Schecter points out, McCain once said the NRA shouldn’t be embraced by the Republican Party:

The NRA is entitled to their advocacy. I don’t think they help the Republican Party at all, but I don’t think they should in any way play a major role in the Republican Party’s policy making. [CNN, 5/12/00]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/...

Naughty entertainment You saw BillO lose it. Here's what was happening behind the camera. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:18...

American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide  An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2144...

Flashback: McCain Hamas Hypocrisy http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzDBi...

Obama responds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeejb...  Showing signs of psychosis, McCain calls this an "hysterical diatribe" http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...

VA Worker suggests avoiding a diagnosis of PTSD http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...

Obama Calls for Probe of VA PTSD Cost-Cutting http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...

Did someone declare this National Flaming Racist Idiot week, and I just didn’t notice until now? http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...

Huckabee at NRA jokes about Obama being shot http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0... Obama was placed under secret service protection last year -- the earliest ever for a U.S. presidential candidate -- because of racially motivated threats.

University Fires Human Resources VP For Anti-Gay  She says she had a divine mandate to write the column and that she was speaking as a private citizen. However a university spokesman said that Dixon's public expressions called into question her ability to perform in her human resources position. http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2...

Court Concludes Paratrooper Is Entitled To Conscientious Objector Status

Much is made of the fact that Barnes did not attend church services in Iraq. While [this] ... might hold sway if there were other facts showing a sudden and convenient getting of religion, surely the Army agrees that it is not its province to suggest there is a proper way to be a Christian, or for that matter, to lay claim to or practice any other form of religion....

http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2...
He says

This occupation is unconstitutional and illegal and I hereby lawfully refuse to participate as I will surely be a party to war crimes. Furthermore, deployment in support of illegal war violates all of my core values as a human being, but in keeping with those values, I choose to remain in the United States to defend myself from charges brought by the Army if they so wish to pursue them. I refuse to participate in the occupation of Iraq.

Florida Subterfuge: Religious School Advocates Relying On Deception In Upcoming Referendum http://blog.au.org/2008/05/15/florid...

Coming to Amerika and getting shackled http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...

So freakin' clueless In a 20-page memo on GOP electoral woes, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) repeatedly misspells Barack Obama’s name – it’s one R, congressman, not two — and then manages to use the racially charged term "tar baby" in a paragraph about Obama and immigration. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...

Failure of stewardship The EPA's newest contribution to its dreadful legacy under Bush: more smog in national parks. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...

How perilous to reason from insufficient data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZ...

Homeland Insecurity OK, we keep entering the land of the bizarre.http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/0...

Appeasement One TPM Reader goes rational on President Bush ...

When President Bush decries "the false comfort of appeasement," and John McCain raises the spectre of Neville Chamberlain, they're deliberately advancing a fallacious line of argument. Appeasement - the acceptance of conditions imposed by an aggressor in lieu of open conflict - is not the result of negotiation, but of capitulation. And the inverse proposition - the rejection of all negotiation even at the price of open conflict - is just as rigidly obtuse. We call it war-mongering.
I don't particularly mind that our President has chosen to air a domestic dispute abroad - that's his perogative. And I've always been miffed by the notion that foreign policy is for the experts, and too delicate a matter to be subject to public debate or the people's will - what the establishment terms 'politicization.' But I'm incensed that the coverage has focused on whether or not Obama's support of negotiations constitutes appeasement, as if this were subject to dispute. It's not. He has never proposed giving in to our enemies. His support of negotiation constitutes, ipso facto, a rejection of appeasement.

There are not two valid sides to this dispute. For the media to accede to this kind of slander, just because it's what the GOP demands, well, it borders on appeasement.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive...

McCain, Israel and Hagee

Hagee supports Israel, or he supports the destruction of Israel followed by a mass conversion episode and presumably the death of whichever Jews remain Jewish, and McCain specifically sites Hagee's views on the Middle East as praiseworthy. That doesn't sound very good to me, but Hagee's got the AIPAC good housekeeping seal so I suppose "sea of blood" is the new pro-Israel.

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.c...

Pop culture: Iron Man Versus the Imperialists -- What's missing in the movie is what has sustained the comic book series for most of its history. Iron Man is actually a scathing critique of American imperialism. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?...

Arizona Appellate Court Strikes Down School Voucher Programs http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2...

McCain on the war McCain a critic of President Bush's war policies?  Please.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive...