Nothin’ could be fine-a, than to be in South Carolina on Halloween…

There’s one more detail in that NYT article that deserves attention: Christie was apparently charging you and I for his personal trips to Mets games.

Oklahoma “cain’t say no” to civil rights infringements.

Atop the front page of The New York Times today is a color photo of Georgia homes flooded up to their rafters, an image that illustrates how when it comes to insurance our Congress applies two standards, separate and unequal, one for property and a lesser one for people.

Unlike people without health insurance, homeowners have access to public option flood insurance.

Max Blumenthal charts the Republican Party’s descent into religious madness, as it transmogrifies from “I Like Ike” into “Ultimate Fighting Jesus”.

The South Carolina Republicans are putting more pressure on their governor to do the pearl-handled revolver in the library bit, but he’s not budging. In fact, the events of the past few weeks may have given him fresh hope, or at least the chance to take a few people with him in his downward spiral.

Huckabee returns to his roots, if you’ll pardon the pun.

The people who pushed to censor President Obama’s speech and who habitually call him a Communist or Socialist are not only the same ones who approve of Bush and Reagan speaking to our kids, they (or their parents) were running around calling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a Commie, and holding up signs at anti-civil-rights protests that read “RACE MIXING IS COMMUNISM”.

Granted, it’s not quite in the same league as Glenn Beck denouncing someone as an extremist conspiracy nut, but this rates at least an honorable mention in the Ginormous Balls category of the annual political awards that should totally exist:

Tone deaf and tin eared.