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A Possible Nightmare Scenario for America in 2012
A new group wants to nominate a third candidate in 2012 but if there is no clear winner, extremists in the House will choose our president
Issues
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Indiana Law Would Punish Schools for Getting National Anthem Wrong
A new Indiana law would punish schools that stray from lyrical and melodic guidelines for the national anthem, stifling artistic expression.
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Republicans Hang a Whites Only Sign on America
Republicans have adopted the old definition that says an American is white, and have added the stipulation that one must also be a Christian
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Why Winning a Caucus in Iowa is a Loss Nationally
With the Iowa Caucus upon us we can see that the GOP has become trapped by its own extreme narrative, depriving any victor of national appeal
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As I See it: Looking Forward in 2012
America and its president face many challenges in 2012 because of an obstructionist Republican House, but Obama has constitutional remedies
The Dirty Thirty Year End Edition
The Dirty Thirty Year-End edition is a recap of legislation, local, state and federal, the GOP is using to destroy America
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With A Different Set of Values Our World Could Have Been Different
Profit is not the only measure of worth. What would the last thirty years have been like if we had not been oriented toward profit, short-term returns, privatization, and creating new ways to make money by handling money?
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West Wing Weekly Round-Up Dec 31, 2010
From the West Wing, we have the mailbag edition of the West Wing Week, President Obama used the recess to appointed six nominees to fill key administration posts that have been left vacant for an extended period of time, signed some bills and made the world a bit safer. Not bad for vacation, Mr President.
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The Ten Commandments Resurface as the Personhood Amendment
Anti-choice advocates in Mississippi have begun to advance so-called Personhood Amendments to attack birth-control, abortion, cloning, and stem-cell research.
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Federal Court Says Murkowski In, Miller Out
Miller lost his federal case – the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his lawsuit on Tuesday, just a week after the Alaska Supreme Court did the same.
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You Read Your Spouse’s Emails and Now You’re Going to Jail
Um, so this whole transparency vs privacy vs secrecy issue is really starting to brew up a storm. A man in Michigan is being charged with hacking into his wife’s computer. Jessica Cooper, the Oakland County prosecutor, said Leon Walker broke the law by hacking in to his former wife’s account but Walker says they shared the computer while his wife says it was her computer. Pay attention people, because this matters.
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The GOP’s Anti-Constitutional Amendment
Now some Republicans are proposing a constitutional amendment that would permit the states to ignore the Constitution by voting to overturn any act of Congress.
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Republican Support for Sarah Palin Plunging in Polls
After a rough two years of Palinitis stained by winning Politifacts’ Lie of Year award among other ignoble distinctions, it appears that even Republicans are mournfully unclenching their stubborn fists from around Palin’s star bursts. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 17-19 and it turns out that support for Ms Palin is nose-diving among Republicans.
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Joe Miller Says He’ll Hold His Breath Until They Let Him Win
Joe Miller will not try to perform a citizens arrest on Lisa Murkowski but he will take her to federal court for having the audacity to defeat him in 2010.
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The U.S. Army – Instrument of Holy War
The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program makes an unconstitutional requirement of spiritual fitness for American soldiers as well as physical fitness.
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Shut Up Barbie: The New Feminism of the Far Left
Shut Up Barbie might remind you of Sarah Palin in her most immediate qualities: she, too, is sexy and cuddles up to big daddy for approval and attention but the super cool thing about Shut Up Barbie is that she isn’t ignorant! Yes, Shut Up Barbie comes with a book and she can talk well at parties. In other words, she’s the perfect companion for liberal men. She’s cute, she’s sassy, she’s smart, but she knows when to shut up.
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Islam4UK and a Holy War of Words
Yes, I know it’s a surprise. Fundamentalist Christians hate Islam and well…fundamentalist Muslims hate Christianity. We have seen this dynamic at work in the United States since 2001 and with renewed vigor over the past two years. It’s as if a perpetual state of Jihad/Crusade exists in the minds of extremists at both ends, leaving…
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Civil Liberties Not Part of the Republican Plan for America
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
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Why Progressives are Wrong About Julian Assange
Anyone accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty but right now I would no more trust a jury of progressives to look dispassionately at the case than I would a jury of conservatives.
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John McCain and Why Sgt. Coleman Bean Had to Die
When a New Jersey veteran committed suicide after serving in Iraq, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) tried to do something about it, only to see his bill killed by John McCain.
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Christofascist Group CADC Threatens Divine Wrath for America
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has proven it is all about defamation with its attack on the repeal of DADT, threatening Divine punishment for America.
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Joe Scarborough Squeals Over Trickle-Down Con Man Chris Christie
“The day of reckoning is here!†Announces New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a theatrical voice dripping with doom. Joe Scarborough loves him for it, squealing that Chris Christie makes him feel like a 14 year old girl at a Beatles concert. Nothing spells GOP recovery like a suffering American economy. And nothing says desperate party like pushing Chris Christie as the next great white hope.
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START Treaty Overcomes Two Republican Amendments
Republicans have tried every possible delaying tactic: an amendment by John McCain, failed Saturday on a 59-37 vote; on Sunday, a second by Jim Risch, 32-60.
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Is Corporate America This Arrogant?
In a charity campaign aimed at helping school lunch programs in the U.S.A, GAP is promoting FEED USA bags. These bags cost between $19.50 and $39.50. For each bag you purchase, GAP donates $5 to school lunch programs in the United States. It sounds good until you realize that GAP decided to sell bags “Made in China” for just under $40.00 and donate $5 to FEED USA.
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Do You Love Your Freedoms? Sarah Palin Has Citizen Kicked Out for T-Shirt
Sarah Palin had a woman escorted out of her book signing today in Alaska. The woman’s crime was the t-shirt she wore which read “worst governor ever”. Ms Palin is often complaining about her own first amendment rights (translated to mean the Press can not criticize her or fact-check her without trampling on her first amendment rights) but seems to think less highly of other Americans’ rights.
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Obama’s Ability To Compromise Exposes the Politics of Obstruction
It is important that President Obama communicates to the American people his attempts at compromise and bipartisanship because it will expose the Republicans as the obstructionists they really are.
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Why Sarah Palin Isn’t Abraham Lincoln
Comparisons of Sarah Palin to Abraham Lincoln are absurd. It takes more than stacking wood as a child to make another Lincoln. Facts allow no such comparison.
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On GMA, Sarah Palin Hints at Her Plan to Transform America
During Ms Palin’s interview with GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Ms Palin’s response put to bed notions that she isn’t running as she extolled the virtues of “debating ideas†in competitive primaries.
This morning on Good Morning America, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Anyone who is in doubt about Ms Palin running for President had best grab the smelling salts. She is and it’s uncertain if the GOP can stop her without alienating her Tea Party evangelical base.
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The Unholy Triumvirate of GOP Christmas Hypocrisy
If Kyl, DeMint, and McConnell are such devout Christians, why do their voting records belie their claim that they are followers of Christ? Shouldn’t their single-mindedness of faith permeate every aspect of their personal and working lives?
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President Obama’s Tax Compromise Passed by Congress
President Obama’s tax compromise passed Thursday with a 277 to 14 (139 Democrats and 138 Republicans voting aye). The Senate passed the legislation Wednesday.
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Joe Scarborough Blasts Republicans For Throwing Baby Jesus Under the Bus
Joe Scarborough and the MSNBC Morning Joe crew blasted Senate Republicans today for invoking Baby Jesus and Christmas to cover up their complaints about maybe having to work on Christmas. Scarborough pointed out that millions of Americans, including the troops, will be working on Christmas, and he accused Senate Republicans of, “throwing Baby Jesus under the bus.”
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Christofascist Organization Lays Claim to “Gay” Rainbow
NOM says the rainbow is a Christian symbol stolen by the gay rights people. Would this be a good time to ask for the cross back, since it predates Christianity?
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Rush Limbaugh Reveals The GOP’s Horrible Secret: They Can’t Read
This morning on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh made a case for why the Republicans don’t want to vote on the START treaty. Apparently, none of them have had time to read it and Rush thinks they should be given special consideration for their reading impairment. DeMint has called to have all legislation read aloud to him on the Senate floor since he has been unable to complete the 17 page document on his own. Mr DeMint and his Republican buddies now advocate for a special ed version of the Senate in order to accommodate their choice to remain ignorant.
Debunking the Conservative Myth of American Exceptionalism
Many Republicans and Tea Party groups are of the misguided opinion that America has the right to do whatever it chooses in the world and that the choices it does make are perfect. Although America is a great country and one of the world’s super-powers, it does not always make the right decisions and is not exceptional. The phrase “American exceptionalism” is thrown around continuously by conservatives who believe that America is without fault, and it leads to discriminatory policies abroad and here at home. There are myriad reasons why America is not exceptional, and it boils down to one problem; conservatives.
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Children First: the Underground Railroad War Against Women’s Freedom
Back in April of 2009, anti-women’s freedoms groups won the approval for specialized license plates reading “Choose Life†in 18 states. A few states were holding out, continuing the legal fight. One of those states, New Jersey, just gave in last week to stop the financial bleeding of the endless court battles.
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The Right’s False Patriotism: American ≠Israeli
Why did Sarah Palin keep an Israeli flag in her office in Juneau? She needed an American flag and an Alaskan flag. Didn’t her governor’s obligations stop there?
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President Obama Embraces the Liberal Spirit of Christmas
President Obama spoke at the Christmas in Washington celebration last night at a performance to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center, during which he tied the Christmas holiday to the liberal themes that we are all our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and that Christmas is a time to remember those in need as well as to celebrate.
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Michele Bachmann and the Truth About Republican Spending
Michele Bachmann wants to “redefine†earmarks. Do a little tweaking here and there and you can spend wantonly yet present yourself as a fiscal conservative.
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A Date with Kate Gosselin Exposes Sarah Palin As A Camping Fraud
Tonight’s “special episode†of Sarah Palin’s Alaska focused on showcasing Sarah Palin rugged “outdoors woman†as she took novice camper/ fellow reality show diva Kate Gosselin on a camping trip, but what resulted was more evidence that Palin is as clueless about the outdoors as she is about politics.
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Community Organizer Sarah Palin Calls Ravaged Haiti Joyful
Ms Palin finally did something that may have a positive impact somewhere in the world, or at the very least, wasn’t a rage filled episode of non-nonsensical tweeting meant to start WWIII. Small things to be grateful for these days, friends. Perhaps the social democracy of Haiti rubbed off on the social Darwinist.
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Iowa Case Shows GOP Doesn’t Really Believe in States’ Rights
GOP opposition to big federal government and support of states’ rights is a reaction to loss of control and does not extend to their socially conservative agenda
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The DDoS Attack That Wasn’t: Sarah Palin’s Operation Payback Lie
In an attempt to show her dashing ability to thwart off DDOS attacks, Sarah Palin told ABC news she had been the victim of a DDoS attack from Operation Payback but that she had been prepared for the “backlash†and hence warded it off. All of the above turned out to be… untrue.
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Michele Bachmann to Teach Ignorance of the Constitution
Michele Bachmann, who knows nothing about the Constitution, is going to recruit others who know nothing about the Constitution to teach it to members of Congress
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Sarah Palin’s Hunting Fiasco
The problem for Sarah Palin fans reconciling her obvious phoniness with her claims; can they do it when it’s blaring in their faces on their big screen HD TVs?
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The Legal Battle Over Prop 8: A Study in Christian Bigotry
Prop 8 is the result of California’s Supreme Court decision that said banning same-sex couples from marrying was unconstitutional. Religious bigots gathered signatures, mobilized church leaders and conservative pundits to put Proposition 8 on the ballot, and Californians narrowly passed the measure.
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Newt Gingrich’s New Gig: Tea Party Demagogue
Gingrich began his attack by declaring that Obama is “not one of us.†He’s one of “them.†He is feeding on the birther meme that Obama is not American at all.
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Glenn Beck Defends Julian Assange From Sex By Surprise Charge
Today on Glenn Beck’s radio show he and his friends were discussing the Assange situation. It turns out that Sex by Surprise is a GOOD thing! Sure, it may or may not involve continuing sex after a condom breaks even as the woman asks you to stop, but we can’t let the Nanny state tell us what to do! Turns out, nothing says pro-family like a little Sex by Surprise!
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Liz Cheney Lies About Obama’s Afghanistan Policy
Liz Cheney feels free of any reality-based constraints that bind the president and throws our president under the bus in the name of political posturing.
Wikileaks and The Extreme Hypocrisy of Sarah Palin
The release of documents by Wikileaks has caused some embarrassing moments for American diplomats, and there are calls for the arrest of Julian Assange for treason and many on the right claim he is a traitor. One could excuse the harsh rhetoric from Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and right if they had expressed the same outrage during the Bush era for the lies and deception used as a reason to invade Iraq and wage war on innocent Iraqis.
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America Tell Republicans To Stop Holding National Security Hostage
Mitch McConnell and his Republican brethren are holding legislation hostage until the Democrats give them tax cuts for the rich. They claimed that this pledge didn’t include the START treaty, and then like clockwork, they started denouncing the START treaty. Democrats are beginning to realize that negotiating with Republicans “is almost like negotiating with terrorists”.
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Republicanism Kills History on Contact
As the historical facts – the actual facts – are inconvenient, Beck, like other Republicans, have fabricated a history more congenial to Republican ideology.
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Democrats Should Stand Tall Against Republican Tax Cut Extortionists
No matter how one assesses the current Republican obstructionist tactics in the legislature, it is nothing less than extortion, and it will affect working Americans as well as national security. Republicans are threatening to block a vote on the START treaty that will limit the nuclear arsenals of Russia as well as the United States.
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Muslims and Pagans Oh My! (A Christofascist Nightmare)
The Tea Partier in question, John Trautman, was criticizing the build of a mosque. He said “are not only our enemy but pagans. Why would we want them in our backyard?”
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Fox News Combines Sex with Taxes to Sell Millionaire Propaganda
This morning on Fox & Friends, a Fox Cheerleader in a plunging neckline meant to distract the viewer from the obvious dishonesty in her argument sold propaganda about how the poor rich folks needed those tax cuts for the trickle down jobs. Not even Juan Williams could rein in his shock at the audacity of her talking points.
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The Christofascist War on Christmas
Each holiday season the Christofascists come looking for bogeymen to accuse so they can play the seasonal victim, repeating their meme a war on Christmas.
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Foreign Press Says What America’s Won’t: Sarah Palin is a Traitor
Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she’s now being called out for her unpatriotic behavior by international media. Yesterday, the Russian paper Pravda eviscerated Sarah Palin for her unrelenting attacks upon the democratically elected President, at a time when America needs to stand together, united.
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Dismantling Democracy One Disenfranchised Voter at a Time
One of the main themes from conservatives is to follow the Constitution strictly, and in fact, every civil servant and politician takes an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States…so help them God. However, with God’s help or not, there are several Senators and Congressmen in the Republican Party who refuse to preserve and protect the Constitution; instead, they want to dismantle it to restrict the right to vote for the majority of Americans.
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The Sacred Band – Thebes’ Honor and America’s Shame
At battle’s end, Phillip looked upon the dead of the Sacred Band and said, “Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.â€
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150,000 March in Dublin to Protest IMF/ECB Bailout and Austerity Budget
This week saw what has been described as the largest demonstration in the history of the Irish state, as an estimated 150,000 people marched through Dublin city centre to protest the Irish government’s draconian new austerity budget and the arrival of the IMF. They came from all over the country and from all walks of life, united in the belief that there is a better way to deal with Ireland’s economic woes. The march had been arranged by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
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Christine O’Donnell Tries to Revive Clinton V Obama Narrative for 2012
Christine O’Donnell showed up this morning on Good Morning America to talk about how weak our President has been on the current Wikileaks cable dump. She managed to be a good puppet Grizzly for her Mama Bear, suggesting that President Obama was incompetent and that she would vote for Hillary Clinton in 2012 primaries because “anybody is better than Obama.â€
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WikiSqueaks: Sarah Palin’s Incoherently Dangerous Wikileaks Criticism
Today the GOP’s best and brightest, Ms Sarah Palin, tweeted what she intended to be a dig at President Obama over his handling of the Wikileaks situation. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Ms Palin, her jab is going to come right back on her, so full of tells as to why she shouldn’t be anywhere near power as it is.
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Are Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Really The Bad Guys?
This morning, Glenn Beck assumes we should shut down WikiLeaks like we shut down the Prada infringers, in order to enjoin publication of the cables. In doing so, Beck skips over the tug of war between a transparent government and the protection of U.S. national security, the eternal tango between the need to limit power without rendering it impotent. As Lord Acton warned, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
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Republican Extremists Take Aim at Moderation
It is obvious that moderation has no place in modern Republican discourse, whose rhetoric is based on confrontational and inflammatory statements, the more outrageous the better.
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Blackwater Alert: Fox News Calls for the Privatization of the TSA
Yes, as we all suspected, the right had a stake in echoing the TSA outrage and now they’ve come out with it on Fox. Their solution? Private security corporations should take over for the TSA and also, too, aggressive profiling is necessary (but only of the Muslims, not of the blond whites- FYI).
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Palin Won’t “Waste” Time Letting Couric Interview Her Again
That Couric is a pretty horrible person. “Journalistic ethics be damned,” Katie Couric must have told herself. “I’m going to ask her what she reads!”
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Sarah Palin’s Thanksgiving of Spite
In another sad, desperate attempt to get media attention on a holiday, Sarah Palin spent her Thanksgiving day licking her wounds on Facebook and creepily stalking the President, who has better things to do with his day than acknowledge she who has not earned his attention.
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Obama: “Don’t bet against America. Don’t bet against the American auto industry.”
“Don’t bet against America. Don’t bet against the American auto industry!†Not something Republicans want to hear. They have been betting against both.
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Oklahoma Judge Stands Up for the First Amendment
Oklahoma’s efforts to turn the state’s Muslim population into Untermensch (or “sub-humans”) in some sort of quasi-National Socialist racial hierarchy, with White Anglo-Saxon Protestants occupying the top rung as Herrenvolk (or “master race”) of the Volksgemeinschaft (or “national community”) have hit a snag. A federal judge did what a federal judge is supposed to do…
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Sarah Palin Trips Over the Meaning of Enemy Centric
In Sarah Palin’s second book (also known as propaganda; a fact Palin herself admitted on Fox last night, albeit unknowingly- as she seems to do just about everything), “America by Heart,†she accuses the President of having an “enemy centric foreign policy†and reveals that she is spectacularly clueless about what an enemy centric foreign policy is.
Welfare or Warfare: Keeping Defense Contractors Rich While America Crumbles
Republicans want to take the country back to the 1950s, and they want to cut taxes for the wealthy claiming it is good for the economy even though the Bush-era tax cuts have not created jobs or stimulated the economy. Republicans also oppose cutting defense spending that drains the economy and takes valuable resources that could rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create jobs.
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America Falling Down: We’re Not the Good Guys Anymore
We suffered a mental collapse, the same thing that happened to William Foster in Falling Down. But what Foster did was wrong; what America did was wrong.
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Hillary Clinton Won’t Run for President in 2012
Sorry, no kiss goodbye to any Clinton vs. Palin fantasy scenario i.e. strong feminist woman vs. pseudo-feminist quitter in 2012 or 2016.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Dreams of a Second Mexican War
Rick Perry is talking about a Second Mexican War à la Zachary Taylor and the Halls of Montezuma. Maybe he sees himself as another Black Jack Pershing.
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Money and Lies at the Heart of Republican Strategy in 2010
They blame healthcare reform but if any physicians drop their patients, it won’t be because of “Obamacare.” It will be because of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.
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Deficit Hawks Turned Wild Spending Frat Boys Using Daddy’s Credit Card
This is about drunken frat boys at the helm of the economy, sliding daddy’s credit card to pay for anything that suits their fancy and never stopping to think about the bill and then smugly turning around and running on being fiscally conservative.
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Bryan Fischer Wants You to Leave Him on the Battlefield
Saving lives is feminine. We’ll remember that if Mr. Fischer ever finds himself on a battlefield. “Sorry, it wouldn’t be manly to save you. You understand.”
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Barack Obama, High Priest of Baal
When Republicans recently declined to meet with President Obama, it was a rejection of Old Testament proportions. The degree of concern over President Obama’s religion is truly astounding. How can any God-fearing Republican have any time at all for any liberal? It’s like inviting a Canaanite to dinner, or for the Republicans in this case, agreeing to meet with the high priest of Baal in his house.
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Surprise!!! Banning Earmarks Will Create More Big Government
If earmarks are banned, the money must be administered by a government agency, and it will tie up funding for important necessary projects and add to the bureaucracy in government. For teabaggers who hate the idea of government getting too big, this ban should be revolting, and will certainly mean more government intervention into local affairs.
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The Inevitable Bursting of Sarah Palin’s Media Bubble
Palin is stuck in 2008, banking on the press of 2008, when in fact, she will be dealing with a different animal all together. Welcome to the press of 2012, Ms Palin. You will be the center of their attention, just like you’ve always dreamed, but I’m afraid it may well turn into your nightmare.
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Sheriff Arpaio’s Freikorps
Sheirff Joe Arpaio has raised his own little freikorps. FOX News reports that on Wednesday he “swore in 56 members of a new volunteer sheriff’s posse group that includes “The Incredible Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno.”
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Sarah Palin’s Heartland Delusions Go Down in Flames
Yesterday our country suffered the breath-taking blow of hearing Sarah Palin announce that she thinks she can beat President Obama when she runs for President. Today, new polling data shows that the majority of Americans do not think Sarah Palin represents the middle class. That would be those “real Americans” Palin is always dropping her “g”s to ingratiate herself with. Apparently they are not as gullible as Palin hoped. So, that would be a no, you can’t, Ms Palin, regarding beating President Obama in 2012.
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Republicans Talk and Hate and Offer no Solutions
You can search and search; you can look high and low, but you won’t find much. Right now, the closest thing the Republicans seem to have to a real policy is orchestrating a win for Bristol on DWTS.
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Willow’s Facebook Outburst Blows the Lid off Sarah Palin’s TLC Propaganda
The most salient note regarding Willow and Bristol Palin’s facebook slurs is the awkward timing of reality, rearing his mean little head and directly conflicting with the carefully crafted image of angelic wholesome Northern Barbie Family who like to shoot and pray together so cheerfully sold to us on Palin’s reality TV show.
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Tea Party Naiveté Enables Boehner Corruption
I’m sure you’ve heard all about how incoming House Republican majority are going to end earmarks and reform DC, even as they staff up using K streeters and lobbyists. But to really shake things up, they’re going to get rid of the Office of Congressional Ethics. Nothing says reform like getting rid of oversight all together.
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Putting the Republican Messiah on Full Display in Sarah Palin’s Alaska
If ever you wondered if Sarah Palin was indeed the next coming of Christ, her reality TV show proves that not only does Palin own Alaska, but that she is your next Messiah. Special props for the brilliant Jesus propaganda where Palin is backlit angelically with her arms up to the Heavens and music by Christian rock band Third Day calls, “Follow me there!†over and over and over again.
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Bill Kristol Begs Obama to Become a Republican
Here’s Bill on the November 14 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday, finally figuring out how to solve the national crisis his party created. His solution? The President should bang his head against the same brick wall of failed ideas that the Republicans refuse to give up, regardless of reality! Who can say Bill doesn’t love America?
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Jeb Bush for President?
Would Jeb Bush run as an establishment Republican or as a Tea Partier? It is unlikely but not impossible he could successfully straddle the fence but it is a hazardous course. Ideological purity is the prime motivator in Republican politics these days, and a soft stance which would gain Latino voters would lose WASP voters.
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In the Name of The Mother: Palinbots Rig DWTS for Bristol Palin
You Thought It Was Just DWTS, but It’s 2008 Redo for the “Country” Vote! Palin for President if Bristol wins. To this end, Conservatives 4 Palin is hosting a vote-a-thon love fest with hints and clues about how to cheat the vote, because nothing says American like robbing others of their place just so you can prove that your chosen one is the most beloved, even if you have to lie to make it so!
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What do the Midterms Mean to Congressional Women?
Sure, 113 GOP women challenged incumbents compared to 80 Democrats but the Democrats had a 46 percent success rate compared to only 28 for the Republicans. And Democrat women still far outnumber Republican women in Congress.
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President Obama Screwed You. Wait, No He Didn’t
All the rage, all the buzz, is how Obama screwed us all and no one, and I mean no one, likes him anymore! Hey, Obama, you suck! Give us the permanent tax cuts or else, and do not give them to anyone else. We mean it! Cut to the quiet clarification in the afternoon that all of the hysteria was for naught. No need to kill ourselves yet. Oh, is it too late? Gee, sorry. It was for a good cause.
Regulation to Left of Me; Regulation to Right of Me
You hear a lot of talk about the evils of big government and federal regulations but damned if both groups don’t like a healthy dollop of regulation as well. Ultra-conservatives want the government to regulate our sex lives and ultra-liberals want the government to regulate what we can eat.
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Sarah Palin Has Crashed This Party a Little Too Long
Suddenly Mark McKinnon is not so keen on lowered expectations. He went on MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s “Last Word†program last night to denounce Sarah Palin as having crashed the Republican Party for too long, “Everyone’s dancing around Sarah Palin… her stock is falling and it’s falling pretty rapidlyâ€.
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Republican Opposition to Abortion Based on Myths
Fundamentalist Christians claim that abortion is wrong, that their god is pro-life. But abortion isn’t condemned in the Law of Moses, and that contrary to the claims often made, the mother’s life had priority over that of the fetus.
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Going Rogue: The Bush Doctrine and American Exceptionalism
For Bush, war became THE political instrument. No longer does war pick up where politics leave off; war becomes a substitution for politics.
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The Tale of the Weepy Orangeman
In the wake of the 2010 midterm elections it is important to know who John Boehner is and what it will mean to have him as Speaker of the House. Obviously,there are some concerns with Boehner’s very old-fashioned, shall we say…conservative…positions. One might say ULTRA conservative.
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Emboldened by Victories, Republicans Back to Warmongering
Emboldened by their midterm victories, Republicans are already back to warmongering. Having invaded and conquered Iraq (where 50,000 U.S. troops remain to buttress the new government) and mired down in an endless war in Afghanistan, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) now wants to attack Iran.
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Palinectomy Not Going Well for GOP
The GOP’s birther front-runner Sarah Palin is proving quite the problem for the good old boys now that they’ve used her to push the country farther right, thereby handily establishing themselves as the center sane as they begin their domino denouncements of Ms Crazy.
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Sarah Palin’s New Twitter Moment
Sarah Palin has another Tweeter moment. It’s ironic really, that she is the star of a reality show but reality is not a friend to her. She seems to be saying to reality (shrieking really), “Reality, you’re not the boss of me!â€
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New Republican Strategy: Shoot Selves in Foot
These ideologically-motivated refusals are perhaps not such a bright idea when you stop to think about it. The problem being of course, that not many people stopped to do any thinking leading up to these midterms and Republicans seem to be doing less thinking than most. It all became about rage and ideology. Nobody was thinking in practical terms. So they all decided to have a group foot shoot instead.
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Debunked: 5 Tea Party Patriot Myths About the Constitution
In a recent issue of The Atlantic, Garrett Epps an article titled “All Patriots ‘Know’ that Moses Wrote the Constitution.” This is just one of many myths that the far right has constructed about our constitution, and the religious origins of our governmental system.
