Rand Paul and the Tea Party Movement

By Byron Harvey / August 10, 2010 /

Rand Paul, Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, has become one of the “poster children”, of sorts, for the Tea Party movement.  It’s not surprising, of course, that the media paints the Tea Party as a bunch of fringe kooks—we’ve come to expect such tripe from the lapdog media over the years.  Disclaimer: are there kooks…

Giving it Away

By Byron Harvey / August 8, 2010 /

The Giving Pledge is a new movement founded by mega-billionaires to give away sizeable chunks of their fortunes to charity. Good for them.  It is a little funny—and sad—that in the AJC article, Ted Turner feels compelled to state the exact amount of his contributions, and to call the giving of them “one of (his)…

Amazing Grace. Amazingly Done.

By Byron Harvey / August 7, 2010 /

This is beautiful.  Just like grace.

Why We Will Lose the "Gay Marriage" Debate

By Byron Harvey / August 7, 2010 /

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this one, it would seem, is over.  Not immediately, and maybe not even with the eventual first decision of the Supreme Court (right now, I think that the loony judge’s decision overturning Prop 8 would be overturned at the level of the Supremes; new Justice…