Gabby Giffords’ latest campaign video is causing consternation in some Democratic circles, including one which is a major base of her biggest, and arguably most important supporter, Raul Grijalva. Some immigration rights and Hispanic civil rights activists are concerned that Gabby’s latest ad ‘Safe’ conflates the issue of homeland security to avert terrorism, with … Read more

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."     – Mohandas Gandhi "There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce … Read more

Watch these two square off on KAET.

Support emergency funding to the states to print paper ballots in the upcoming election. From a True Majority action alert:"Paperless electronic voting machines will be used once again this fall, and already during the primaries they failed. In Maryland crowds of legal voters were turned away from the polls when the machines couldn’t be started. … Read more

The Ad Council recently released a series of political spots aimed at boosting youth voting. The ads, and an Onionesque companion web site, highlight to superior qualifications for office of several more or less inanimate objects. The ads are just brilliant and deserve some viral love.

UPDATE: The Administration is predictably refusing to release anything but a redacted version of the Key Judgments section of the NIE, even while slyly implying through Administration members and proxies that the devil is in the details of the report. They had a pretty good strategy – release selected portions before any pressure to release … Read more

The campaigns have come to an agreement on debates. There will be six debate with two televised, if you consider Access cable and KUAT to be televised. I’m rather surprised there are so many. I would have predicted 2 or 3, all televised. And I would have packed more of them into mid-October. Should be … Read more