Rachel Maddow points out that we have an ongoing and widely documented program of domestic terrorism going on that is achieving its goals using murder and bombing (including purposely bombing innocent people to spread terror), and we aren’t doing much about it: UPDATE: © Jimmy Margulies
It was bad enough when Republican candidates in the presidential election invoked Jack Bauer from the TV show 24 as their model for how to deal with terrorists. Now the National Review has published an incredibly surreal list of the “Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years“. Here’s the complete list: #25: Gran Torino […]
Quotes from conservative G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race.” And that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments. And, as if calling the […]
OMG! Bush actually believed all that crap about the rapture! It turns out that Bush told the French President Jacques Chirac an involved story about the biblical creatures Gog and Magog at work in the Middle East, and how war in Iraq was “willed by God”. This was revealed by Chirac himself in a new […]
From a new study: Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated. The evidence is based on 1254 community college students and 1600 foreign students seeking entry to United States’ universities. At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores […]
Garrison Keillor read this poem this morning on The Writer’s Almanac. It was written by former president Jimmy Carter, and published back in 1995: As a legislator in my state I drew up my first law to say that citizens could never vote again after they had passed away. My fellow members faced the troubling […]
It is one of those curious ironies of life that the best thing that liberals could do right now would be to oppose the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Why? For many reasons. Opposing Sotomayor will make it more likely she is confirmed. It is simple politics (a game that the Democrats […]
An article in The Economist (of all places) talks about the difficulty comedians are having making jokes about Obama: David Letterman says that Obama is “cogent, eloquent, and in complete command of the issues. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?” Bill Mayer complains that Obama is “not fat, not cheating on […]
How ironic is it that some of the most intelligent and thoughtful arguments about the whole torture issue are coming from a former pro wrestler?
This must be a special time for inherent contradictions and hypocrisy. First, RNC Chairman Michael Steele just published an article in Politico with a conclusion that includes the following paragraph: The Republican Party has turned a corner, and as we move forward Republicans should take a lesson from Ronald Reagan. Again, we’re not looking back […]
Or more accurately, why politics doesn’t work. Ben Smith has an audio recording of a voicemail message left in March 2007 by Hillary Clinton for Norman Hsu, who was just convicted on campaign finance fraud charges. The effusive message includes the line “We’re going to win this campaign, Norman, because you singlehandedly are going to […]
Glenn Greenwald in Salon quotes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, and says that her column is “uncharacteristically cogent and substantive”. Hmmm. TPM points out that at least one paragraph from Dowd’s column was plagiarized from an earlier column by Josh Marshall in TPM. Does that explain why Greenwald thought it was such a […]
© Tom Tomorrow Personally, I think people who use the “ticking time bomb” scenario to justify torture have been watching “24” too much.
News Flash: Taliban Waterboards Captured U.S. Soldiers–Claims “Not Torture” According to reports out of Kabul, the Taliban announced that they have waterboarded three U.S. soldiers taken prisoner. The Taliban commander asserted that waterboarding is not torture and does not violate the Geneva Convention or U.S. law. He assured everyone that a medical officer monitored all […]
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