Salon.com - Debbie does Washington
Red States are much more interested
in porn than blue states.
Total sleaze Abramoff, DeLay's 'best friend', on how the GOP operates.
"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.
This Modern World - Are they stupid or lying?
So what else is new - Alito wrote in 1985 that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," adding that he "personally" believed "very strongly" in that view.
Also in Salon - Showdown between Ron Earle and Tom DeLay.
"Partisan considerations don't enter into it with Ronnie," says Republican state Rep. Terry Keel, who worked for Earle in the D.A.'s office. "I don't think it involves political ambition or is a political vendetta," says former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, a Democrat who was indicted by Earle while in office in 1985 for felony bribery. (He was acquitted at trial.) Adds Joe Turner, who represents John Colyandro, one of DeLay's codefendants, and once worked for Earle: "I like Ronnie. He's a good person. I don't think he's an evil person. And I think he truly believes that what he is doing is correct."
Added - Salon also has a good review of the graphic novel Black Hole, a surreal tale of teenage sex and passion.
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