We Love America More Than Anyone

O”REILLY: Now, how do we get to this point? Black people in this country understand that they’ve had a very, very tough go of it, and some of them can get past that, and some of them cannot. I don’t think there’s a black American who hasn’t had a personal insult that they’ve had to deal with because of the color of their skin. I don’t think there’s one in the country. So you’ve got to accept that as being the truth. People deal with that stuff in a variety of ways. Some get bitter. Some say, [unintelligible] “You call me that, I’m gonna be more successful.” OK, it depends on the personality. Read the rest of this entry »

the wise old men of washington now admit the dirty fucking hippies were right all along.

I just love watching Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman and the rest of these Village gasbags blithely discussing Alan Greenspan’s pronouncement that the Iraq war was all about oil as if it’s always been just so obvious. It’s not even controversial except that it’s Alan Greenspan who said it, which they seem to find tittilating. But now they go on and on about how America runs on oil and that wars are fought over resources (even though it’s a “Marxist” argument *shudder*.)

Well, no shit. It was always obvious and there were a whole bunch of people who told the truth about that from the very beginning and were vilified as traitors, naifs, terrorist sympathizers and worse by these oh-so-jaded commentators who are discussing it now with all the emotion they used when they ordered their lunch today. Read the rest of this entry »

My apologies for not posting over the last couple weeks. I am a law student, and the dark cloud of my 2L year is descending rather quickly.

So, from now on, lady time will take place on Mondays. Start your week right with some feminist blog time. Yeah.

And with that, I am off to read more about Administrative Law. Yes, it is as intriguing as it sounds. More to come later this afternoon.

In the meantime, unicorns!

First, from Cara at Feministing, Air Force Charges Victim in Her Own Rape:

This news item made my stomach turn: Cassandra Hernandez, a female Air Force airman was raped, reported her attack and then subsequently became a court-martial defendant, herself.

The story goes down like this: Hernandez was at a party, where she was drinking. She says that three male airman raped her. She went to the hospital and filed a report accusing her attackers. Due to stress and harsh interrogation tactics by the Air Force, she eventually refused to testify against the airmen. Read the rest of this entry »

you know if you make the top link on drudge, you’re doing your job.

America’s first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »