A quick synopsis on the Wikileaks dump…!

But really, for every bad teacher, I’ve had a good one. A teacher who gave me faith in the human race. A teacher that would listen to me. A teacher who gave me friendship. Now that friendship comes with a jail sentence.

This is the third part of a series of posts giving recommendations on California’s propositions. This post recommends a “no” vote on Proposition 22, which restricts state borrowing from local funds.

Proposition 24 (and not 23, which everybody has already heard about) will be the subject of the next post in this series.

Sen. Jim DeMint, the conservative and increasingly powerful Republican senator from South Carolina, introduced a bill Friday to strip federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in the wake of National Public Radio’s decision to fire Juan Williams for comments about Muslims that he made on Fox News earlier this week.

Yes I would. No single decision has ever been more damaging

Conservatives in the media have a set of simple narratives that they are telling in this election cycle.  One is that Obama’s policies are unpopular, so Obama has become unpopular, so Democrats or Republicans who vote with him have become unpopular too.  Exhibit A is usually the health care law, but his clean energy proposal is also often thrown in.  This narrative would be very compelling in its simplicity if it were true.

It’s nice to end the week with a victory lap for LBGTs — goddesses know we need one this week.

Obama! A Modern U.S. President

A cornerstone of California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Meg Whitman’s economic platform, is elimination of California’s capital gains tax. If elected and able to abolish the tax that mainly benefits the mega wealthy, Whitman could net some $40 million during a four-year term as governor, according a new report. Now that’s making money the old fashioned Republican way—tax breaks for the super rich.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.