Two years ago I posted an article about the McCain campaign paying people to down-vote web articles they didn’t like. Including mine. Well, it looks like it has gotten a lot worse since then. A well-researched posting on AlterNet shows exactly how conservatives groups are deliberately spam-voting against articles they don’t like, or people they […]
Missouri voters passed a proposition rejecting the federal mandate to purchase health insurance by a close-to three-to-one margin: The citizens of the Show-Me State don’t want Washington involved in their health care decisions. Because the corporations are doing such a good job of it. There is little doubt that their proposition will be invalidated by […]
© Matt Davies The government has built a national security and intelligence system so big, so complex and so hard to manage, no one really knows if it’s fulfilling its most important purpose: keeping its citizens safe. – Washington Post Meanwhile, Republicans are still coming up with petty excuses for blocking the confirmation of Obama’s […]
Newt Gingrich doesn’t think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are bad enough. On Thursday, Gingrich twice said that the US should attack North Korea and Iran. But the best part is his reasoning — we need to finish what Dubya started when he created the phrase “Axis of Evil”: I believe he was right […]
American politics has become a cynical blame game. The left-wing blames Obama for not doing enough, the right-wing blames Obama for everything (which is their coward’s strategy for getting votes, since it is easy to blame the party in power, and doesn’t require to to have any, um, ideas). My favorite conservative, Andrew Sullivan has […]
© Tom Toles The Republicans are filibustering a bill that would require political ads to disclose who funded them. Democrats need only a single vote to break the filibuster, but not a single Republican will support the bill. This bill is a small thing that would reverse some of the Supreme Court decision (“Citizen’s United“) […]
A post from ‘Niceguy’ Eddie got me thinking: Since I don’t let an ideology do my thinking for me, I don’t really care what positions fall under which label. I really, just DON’T CARE. I’m not trying to Liberal here, I’m just trying to be RIGHT. (As in “correct,” not “wing.”) And the way I […]
On the other side, there are reports that the leaked documents reveal the names, and sometimes the location, of Afghanis who worked as informants for the US military. If this is true, then lives will have been put in danger by these leaks.
© Kevin Siers The release of US military records on Afghanistan is being compared to the 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsburg, with one important difference. The media no longer cares, and even if they did, hardly anyone is surprised to learn that Afghanistan is a mess, or even that we may […]
© Tom Toles Yes, I know that weather is not the same as climate, but since conservative pundits repeatedly called global warming a big hoax every time there was a snow storm last winter, I wonder if they are saying anything now that this year is turning out to be the hottest in recorded history. […]
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has suddenly decided it is time to give a “major national security address” at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Thursday. In his speech, Gingrich will directly challenge Obama. Gingrich is also spending an awful lot of time in Iowa and South Carolina. Personally, I think this is […]
More Maddow Magnificence: Want even more? Maddow pwns Bill O’Reilly.
The gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is mostly known for picketing the funerals of murdered homosexuals and Jews, but they also protest other places and events. One of the craziest was picketing an appliance store that was selling Swedish vacuum cleaners, because a Swedish pastor had been convicted of anti-gay hate speech. The pastor, whose […]
© Tom Tomorrow More proof that the unemployed are just lazy!
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