Do you remember Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) who stood up in Congress and said that the Republican health care plan was “Don’t get sick” and if you do get sick to “Die Quickly”. At the time, Republicans vowed to target Grayson and defeat him. So how’s that working out? Well, they certainly found people to […]
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There is a brilliant post by The Desperate Blogger over on Salon. The post is full of brilliant quotes, supposedly from Pat Robertson talking about the earthquake in Chile, who says: God is even angrier with them than he is with the people of Haiti. If I had to guess, I’d say it must have […]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Bill McKibben, who wrote the first book on global warming aimed at a general audience in 1989, notes that at the time even the Wall Street Journal and then president Bush (Senior) both generally agreed that there was a problem. Way back then, there were only a few dozen scientific studies that supported man-made global […]
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tired of being teabagged by the Tea Party? Angry at grass roots movements that turn out to be corporate astroturf? Exasperated at what passes for political discourse in this country? You’re not alone. Now there is an alternative to the Tea Party, and it is called the Coffee Party. Their mission? The Coffee Party Movement […]
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Friday, February 26, 2010
This video embodies why I love Rachel Maddow. As she says, don’t blame health insurance companies for our broken health care system — they are just doing what they are supposed to do:
Thursday, February 25, 2010
A fascinating story on Alternet makes an interesting point. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, so it is illegal to own a person. And yet, if corporations are people with human rights like speech, as the Supreme Court recently ruled, then these corporate persons cannot be bought or sold, so all buying and selling of stocks […]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
While the media is busy with their favored narrative about the teabaggers, covering tea party events with “hundreds” of protestors, they have completely ignored protests in support of health care reform, like this one with thousands of protestors in NYC. Or this eight day march from Philadelphia to DC of Insurance Company Survivors. Is it […]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Glenn Beck talks completely crazy at the CPAC conference. Beck goes on and on about the evils of “progressivism” like “income taxes” and “spending” and finishes up disclosing how he learned about these dangers: “I educated myself. I went to the library and books are free.” I’m sorry, but I can’t believe that Beck is […]
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Taliban’s top military commander has been arrested in a secret joint US-Pakistani operation in Karachi, Pakistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, and is the highest-level Taliban figure to be arrested since the war in Afghanistan started, back in 2001. So, how long do we have to wait […]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Two interesting bits of news: First, a new poll shows that only 6% of Americans think the stimulus bill created any jobs. Second, two non-partisan, well-regarded economic research firms report that the economic stimulus bill passed by Congress has created between 1.6 and 1.8 million jobs and has definitely helped get the economy moving in […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The GOP National Committee is so fired up, they’re running ads against their own members:
Monday, February 15, 2010
© Tom Toles My question is, why is this strategy working? Can you really have a viable political party whose only strategy is to attack the other party and block everything they try to do?
Saturday, February 13, 2010
I’ve long wondered how conservative tea-baggers can scream and yell about our government and socialism, while at the same time taking pretty much everything that Fox News tells them on faith, even when it is a blatant lie and goes against real conservative values. A recent survey says that 74% of Republican-leaning Americans say that […]
Friday, February 12, 2010
CBS News presents a stunning statistic. If you ask Americans if “homosexuals” should be allowed to serve in the military, then 59% say they either strongly or somewhat support it. But if you change the word “homosexual” to “gay men and lesbians”, then the number rises to 70%! The difference is even greater if you […]
