AltWeeklies Wire
Hypocrisy 101: The Vetting of Judge Sonia Sotomayornew

Does Republican US Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have cotton in his brains? I was listening to the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor and was gobsmacked to hear Graham's "lecture" about the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
07-27-2009 |
Commentary
Obama Finds that Feminism is Really About Principles, Not Personalitiesnew
I urge you to visit a new Feminist Majority website -- feministsforobama.org -- which has a very clear delineation and comparison of the Democratic and GOP platforms viewed through a feminist perspective. It also features Obama on its home page with the caption, "This is what a feminist looks like."
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
10-27-2008 |
Commentary
The GOP Puts All its Political Eggs in the Specious Attack Basketnew
Whether the event -- real or cooked up -- is a sexual indiscretion, tenuous association with someone with an unsavory past or extremist religious views, Democrats seem to get stuck and their GOP counterparts are able to just slip-slide their slimy way through the muck. Why is that?
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
10-20-2008 |
Commentary
Sarah Palin and Fascism's Winning Smilenew
Palin takes over for Reagan in painting Republicans as something they're not.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
10-14-2008 |
Commentary
The Reasons to Keep the GOP Out of the White House, from A to Znew
Here's a handy, dandy alphabetical list of clear-cut reasons to stop Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from winning the White House on Nov. 4.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
09-29-2008 |
Commentary
It's Shoot First and Ask Questions Later for Some Big-Name Right-Wingersnew
The victims of Jim David Adkisson -- two dead, eight wounded -- were the people targeted verbally by O'Reilly, Savage and Hannity as well as the other right-wing pundits in their rants and books. Hey, if I were a right-wing nut with an itchy trigger finger, I'd head over to a UU church myself.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
08-11-2008 |
Commentary
Even Presidential Candidates are Judged on Their Breedability Quotientnew
Hillary Clinton is raising a lot of gleeful misogyny in more than a few male supremacists -- men and women -- because she won't go quietly into the proper middle-aged woman pasture.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
05-05-2008 |
Commentary
Eliot's Alphabetnew
Everything from A to Z with Eliot Spitzer in between.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
03-24-2008 |
Commentary
Freedom Floaternew
The public controversy over the Beijing Olympic float in the Rose Parade was a "Boo-Yay" situation: "Boo" for the egregious human rights violations of the Chinese government, and "Yay" that their violations got a parade-full of attention.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
01-07-2008 |
Commentary
Clinton Global Initiative Summit: Promisepaloozanew
Action matches talk at the pricey but productive summit.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
11-05-2007 |
Commentary