"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on May 2nd, 2011
ThinkProgress » Meet The Deathers: Andrew Brietbart Website Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Osama Might Not Be Dead. That didn’t take very long did it? Birtherism is dead, long live deatherism…
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 27th, 2010
This is an interesting piece about the duality and contradictions inherent in the Tea Party movement. Obviously it’s written by a sympathetic writer, but he does have some insights into what drives the Tea Party’s success and what may tear it apart. The Two Faces of the Tea Party | The Weekly Standard.
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 27th, 2010
All the bitching, groaning and outright threats from the right are all too familiar: What has been really striking has been the eliminationist rhetoric of the G.O.P., coming not from some radical fringe but from the party’s leaders. John Boehner, the House minority leader, declared that the passage of health reform was “Armageddon.” The Republican [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 5th, 2009
I agree “insane hubris” does capture the spirit of this little misadventure: The eager young men at Conservapedia are p.o.’d that the Bible might be seen as too liberal. So they’ve come up with the Wiki-style Conservative Bible Project, to make sure the Lord doesn’t go all wobbly on us… …”The liberal style of high [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 30th, 2009
In Case You Missed It | Talking Points Memo. A long time Newsmax.com columnist, possibly suffering from and acute case of Obama Derangement Syndrome, wrote a piece describing the reasons why a domestic “military intervention” would be a good idea. He tosses about “gems” like this: Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2009
Barney Frank pushes back against an idiot with a Hitler sign at his town hall meeting: Frank: When you ask me that question I’m going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question. On what planet do you spend most of your time? [....] You want me to answer the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 1st, 2009
Birthers of a nation – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. Are people in the south really that stupid? Apparently they are…
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 11th, 2009
The Washington Monthly- Political Animal. This is Steven Benen on the meaning of the popularity of Glenn Beck’s batshit crazy antics on Fox News and much more importantly what in bodes for the GOP. This was about what happened off camera right after Glenn pretended to dose a man with gasoline and set him on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 10th, 2008
Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying … Alabama? | OurFuture.org Redstate believes that a permanent troop presence in Iraq is just like troops in Japan, Germany and the American South? People that stupid should really should be kept away from sharp objects like Ruprecht here:
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 27th, 2008
Steve Benen on the reaction to studies showing lower pregnancy ‘rates for girls receiving comprehensive sex education and another showing one in four teenage girls has an STD: Crooks and Liars » Putting abstinence-only funding on the chopping block House Republicans and Bush administration officials are prepared to fight to keep the funding for ineffective [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 11th, 2008
Iraq: Worth the Price – washingtonpost.com Where to begin? How about Hitchens adding up the comparative costs of the containment policy that was demonstrably working? They’ve yet to find the mythical WMDs that were supposed to have made Saddam a worldwide threat. The policy pursued by Bush Sr. and Clinton worked, plain and simple, at [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 8th, 2008
An idiot speaks: CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – GOP congressman says terrorists would celebrate Obama win « – Blogs from CNN.com An Iowa Republican congressman said Friday that terrorists would be “dancing in the streets” if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency. Rep. Steve King based [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 5th, 2008
Lawmaker’s solution to U.S. campus shootings: More guns – International Herald Tribune More guns on campus will fix everything. It will prevent senseless murders by mentally ill students who don’t receive needed treatment. Perfect.
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 3rd, 2008
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/03/2008 | Fur flies over plan to allow loaded guns in national parks Some years ago I was hiking through the Smokey Mountains National Park. I came across an elderly couple coming down the trail from the opposite direction. The man was carrying a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun with the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2008
After his remark last week about staying in Iraq 100 years, McCain lays this one on us: McCain Warns: “There Will Be Other Wars” – Politics on The Huffington Post Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s [...]
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