Senator Sam Brownback acts more like a presidential candidate every day. In December of last year a Quinnipiac Polling Institute poll showed when given a choice Americans preferred life in prison over the death penalty in cases of murder. At that point in time Brownback was a staunch death penalty supporter.
Brownback’s support of [...]
Senator Brownback’s main push in the international arena is the Sudan. I applaud him for discussing the conflict openly and for rightly calling it genocide. I’ll gloss over the fact that he is not as interested in similar deaths in other African nations. Perhaps his interest in Sudan comes from the evangelical lobbying groups [...]
I wrote a DailyKos diary today about the anti gay marriage amendment in Kansas. As a result of the hangover I had from that experience there will unfortunately be no scathing Brownback critiques today.
I was not surprised when I saw that the speaker list for the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith Conference included Senator Brownback. This seems like an event where he would feel at home. While looking at the website, I noticed that Brownback was not listed on the schedule of events. Intrigued, I e-mailed [...]
For a short while, Ahmed Chalabi became one of the most well known faces of the Iraqi opposition groups. He was the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) which was a group of exiles working to overthrow Saddam. On the strength of the old adage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” Chalabi [...]
You may remember in the myriad of stories last week about Brownback’s potential presidential run a mention of a New Hampshire speaking engagement he was to attend. He is speaking at the Cornerstone Policy Research’s “True Blue Breakfast.” According to Cornerstone’s site, the “True Blue” breakfast serves to “recognize New Hampshire legislators with a [...]
According to a Kansas City Star article, Brownback wants to eradicate the long standing right of a husband or wife to make health decisions about their spouse:
Brownback, a Republican with close ties to the party’s social conservative base, said he hoped that in the aftermath of the Schiavo case, states would pass laws [...]
From the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington comes a report(pdf) on members of Congress who accept campaign donations from porn purveyors. It may surprise some to know that ‘ole Sam was one of the politicians highlighted. You may be asking yourself if this is this the same Sam Brownback who held hearings [...]