Month: January 2008

Captain Ed is underwhelmed.

"[Gene Robinson] is certainly not alone in being a gay bishop; he’s certainly not alone in being a gay-partnered bishop. He is alone in being the only gay-partnered bishop who’s open about that status," – Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

A video-blog from New Hampshire.

The best of the African web on Kenya’s alarming tribal clashes here. The chairman of the election commission has admitted he responded to pressure from the ruling party.

Romney’s latest tack on Iraq – not that different from Huckabee’s, with less honesty and more calculation, natch.

Her final TV pitch for Iowans:

Ann Coulter’s facile bigotry even gets noticed by RightWingNews’ John Hawkins.

Micheal Totten’s latest dispatch of security progress still laced with tension, and violence dispersed if not overcome:

One of the peculiar things about Fallujah now is that, for some people at least, it’s less dangerous than some other places in the Middle East, even some that are full of tourists.

“Our interpreter is from Jordan,” said Lieutenant Laughlin. “He’s been with us for four years. He doesn’t go home. There have been threats against his life from former Iraqi insurgents who live there. He is actually safer here in Iraq because we protect him.”

Mark Levin, torture-defender and Bush-backer, on McCain.