Good News: Sanford Will “Try To Fall Back In Love” With Wife

Mark Sanford says Maria Belen Shapur is his “soul mate”, but that he is going to try to fall back in love with his wife.  Jenny Sanford must be thrilled to hear this.

Sanford also told The Associated Press he has ‘crossed lines’ with women other than Chapur, but never had sex with them.

Sanford said one of the trips to see Chapur included what was supposed to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the…

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Veto-proof? Alan analyzes the political impact of the Democratic Party’s 60-vote Senate majority.

• Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern defends her claim that the recession is caused by “debauchery” such as pornography and same-sex marriage.

• Sanford Speaks (Again): Alan sorts through the latest sordid revelations of the embattled South Carolina governor.

Sanford Says He Didn’t Tell The Truth When He Said He Was Telling Us The Truth

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford now says there were more trysts with his Argentine lover than he previously disclosed.

In a lengthy, emotional interview with The Associated Press, the governor described seven meetings with the woman, including their first in 2001. Sanford says there have been five over a 12-month period, including two multi-night stays with her in New York.

It was the first disclosure of any get-togethers with her in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which he admitted to a total…

Wingnut Of the Day: Sally Kern

I was thinking of a feature called “Wingnut of the Week,” but they’re coming at us so fast and furiously that “Wingnut of the Day” seems more appropriate.  Welcome back to Liberaland, Sally Kern, the Oklahoma state legislator who said last year that homosexuality is our biggest threat, “even more so than terrorism or Islam.”

Kern’s latest venture into wingnuttia is the “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation For Morality”.  Here

are some of the WHEREASES

WHEREAS, “It is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can…

Iraqis Jubliant America Is Leaving

Way to win those hearts and minds!  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared June 30 a national holiday. I wonder if they’ll celebrate it yearly.

“All of us are happy — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds on this day,” Waleed al-Bahadili said as he celebrated at the park. “The Americans harmed and insulted us too much.”

There was even a countdown clock and fireworks.  Sounds like New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July wrapped up into one giant party.

On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Alan talks with Dick Morris about his new book Catastrophe, which argues that President Obama is pursuing a radical agenda.

• Ann Coulter, author of Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, sits down with Alan to debate the Supreme Court’s ruling on white firefighters.

• Comedian Andy Borowitz responds to Bernie Madoff’s sentencing with helpful and hilarious tips from Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving Prison.

Bernie Madoff Gets 150 Years

Madoff will never see daylight again, unless it’s in a prison yard.

“I cannot offer any excuse for my behavior,” Madoff was reported to have said in court this morning. “I made a terrible mistake.”

Federal prosecutors had requested the maximum 150 year-term. Madoff’s attorney, Ira Sorkin, said his client deserved a much more lenient 12-year sentence for, in part, cooperating with authorities and citing Madoff’s limited life expectancy.

Ruth Madoff gets to keep $2.5 million in assets while giving up a claim to more than $80 million in other assets.

SCOTUS Rules For White New Haven Firefighters

In ruling in favor of the white firefighters, the high court went against a decision by nominee Sonia Sotomayor, something sure to be underscored by her detractors.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans (such as Gary Tinney, r) and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The court was divided along ideological lines and, in dissent,…

Paul Krugman: Treason Against The Planet

The Republicans who are rejecting the climate change bill are doing so based more on ideology than science.  Paul Krugman reminds us that ice caps are shrinking arid zoes are spreading, and scientists are predicting a 9 degree rise in temperature by the end of the century.

Global greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than expected; some mitigating factors, like absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans, are turning out to be weaker than hoped; and there’s growing evidence that climate change is self-reinforcing — that, for…