| You're probably all blown out of your living rooms from Bobby Jindal's rebuttal to the President's address to Congress, so I'll keep it brief.
• The Daily Beast reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger considered leaving the Republican Party last year, though he never followed through, because he determined that Republicans already hated him as it was and he had nothing to gain from going independent. And the Treasurer of the "Schwarzenegger for California" Party cried real tears.
• In a major announcement, the national NAACP has called for the overturning of Proposition 8. Under Benjamin Jealous the NAACP had been planning on getting more involved with human rights and civil liberties, and this is a bold first step. Can we lay to rest the argument that black people were responsible for Prop. 8's passage NOW?
• The US Supreme Court will hear the case over the eight-foot cross stationed at the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, and whether it can remain as a memorial to soldiers who die in combat. This is a key church-state separation case and we should see an answer in late summer.
• I haven't written about Burton Watch lately, but there's a lot of new information there. Just keep scrolling. In particular, the gerrymandering to impede a potential Senate campaign for Hannah-Beth Jackson, reducing Democratic seats in the Senate by one after 2002, is revealing.
• The SF Chronicle to be sold or closed? |
