Showing posts with label Rachel Maddow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Maddow. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Rachel Maddow on Franklin Graham's Recent Facebook Hissy Fit: "The Universe Has a Way of Making Things Work Out, Big Guy!"

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Here's an example of the kind of sassy from-the-margins political discourse that the Controllers of Significant Conversations have ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Rachel Maddow on Lawrence O'Donnell's Report re: the "Mistake" Made by St. Louis Assistant Prosecutor in Ferguson Grand Jury Hearing

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In a news segment  yesterday, Rachel Maddow noted the importance of Lawrence O'Donnell's hard-hitting questions about the mistak...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Rachel Maddow on Post-Hobby Lobby: "It's Already Started. Justice Ginsburg's Dissent . . . Is Already Coming True"

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While the centrists who are always predictably infatuated with the rulings of powerful men continue to find all kinds of ways  (and here ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Contraception, Five Catholic Supreme Men, and the U.S. As One Big Piggie Park

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When the issue was the sincerely held belief that slavery was ordained by God and that racial segregation is the divine will, the Supreme...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Grim Situation for LGBT Folks in Russia: A Petition to NBC to Make Rachel Maddow Human Rights Correspondent for Olympics

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As a footnote to what I posted earlier today about the dire situation LGBT citizens of Russia now face, I want to note this: 
Friday, February 15, 2013

Illinois Catholic Laity Reject Bishops' Lead about Marriage Equality, Robert Mickens on Benedict's Resignation, Rachel Maddow on Hubris and Iraq War

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End-of-week news items that I couldn't shoehorn into other postings today, but which strike me as eminently worth paying attentio...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

News Tidbits: Maddow on Gay Marriage, Alabama Immigration Law, Occupy Wall Street

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A number of disparate news stories that have caught my eye in recent days, which I'd like to mention as the week ends: 1. I like ...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, and Craig Ferguson on Dr. Rekers: Why His Business Is Our Business

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A quick follow-up to what I posted last evening about the Rekers story: Anderson Cooper did, indeed, do a segment on Rekers last night at...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Continuing Ugandan Coverage: Rachel Maddow Interviews Jeff Sharlet Again

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A quick update to yesterday’s posting about Rachel Maddow and Bob Hunter of The Family: but before I get to it, I want to say that I hope re...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Health Care Reform and Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Making the Connections--Moral Imperatives and (Non-Existent) Leadership

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I’ve been holding onto bits and pieces of commentary for some days now. Today, I want to post these in a series of interconnected postings....
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Rachel Keeps on Keeping On: Let Me Count the Ways Pat Is Wrong about Race

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As a follow-up to my previous posting about Rachel Maddow's refusal to allow Patrick Buchanan to spew racist nonsense unchallenged: yes...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Rachel Takes on Pat: Many Hands Built America, Not Just White Men's Hands

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Patrick Buchanan tells Rachel Maddow that white men built his nation ( see here and here ): White men were 100% of the people that wrote th...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Evidence for the Shifting (Progressive) Moral Consensus in American Political and Cultural Life

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In a posting yesterday (and in previous postings ), I note that many Americans seem to be moving towards a tipping point that represents a...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

At the Crossroads: White House Meeting with Human Rights Groups Yesterday

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A number of news reports today link to what I wrote yesterday about the divide between progressive idealist and pragmatist wings of the Oba...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Rachel Maddow Phenomenon and Post-Gay America

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In yesterday’s posting on the baby-boom generation, I said, The people most resistant to the idea of gay rights in the latter decades of the...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan: Hateful Speech Translates to Hatreful Acts

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Back after the long weekend, during which Steve and I spent welcome days with our dogs in the Ozarks, walking, reading, and watching and lis...
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