“This draconian initiative signed into law this morning by Gov. Robert Bentley is so oppressive that even Bull Connor himself would be impressed,” said Wade Henderson, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, referring to Birmingham’s notorious segregationist public safety commissioner from the civil rights era. “HB 56 is designed to do [...]

The Sarah Palin email dump hasn’t yielded any bombshells, but reporters did uncover a new Palinism “unflippinbelievable.” Nobody can refudiate that the former beauty queen has a way with words. If something goes unexpectedly wrong, a normal person will exclaim: Unfreakinbelievable, only Palin would use a g-rated expletive.

You little sawed-off dwarf, you can’t even pick up a rifle. CIA director under war criminals George Bush and torture dungeon Dick Cheney, and now mis-advising Obama as defense secretary, Gates blasted European NATO allies last week for being reluctant to go to war. He said the NATO countries, allies to the U.S. for 60 years, could face a dismal future because of their “penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat.”

Alaska has released 24,000 pages of former governor Sarah Palin’s email. The treasure trove was released by the state government in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Lovers of the King’s English are wincing at this frontal assault on the English language, critics of Palin are salivating at the prospect of finding juicy tidbits [...]

“‘The Undefeated,’ the flattering new documentary about Sarah Palin, has inked a distribution deal with North America’s second-largest movie theater chain for a July 15 release. AMC Theatres will show ‘The Undefeated’ in markets including Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Atlanta, Orange County, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis and Kansas City, according to the news release from [...]