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Something we need: A SWAT team of accountants

Monday, May 31, 2010

It now appears that the oil spill in the Gulf will continue unabated for several months, with BP’s cover its ass approach to containment the only relief in the meantime. Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers has taken a break from his laudable efforts on behalf of cephalopods and against the forces of unreason to make […]

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Something to ponder

Monday, May 24, 2010

This post by Matt Corley at ThinkProgress got me thinking. The subject is Rand Paul, the “libertarian” Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, and the fact that quite a few conservatives disagree with Sarah Palin’s view that Rachel Maddow was somehow unfair to him by asking about his opinions. Corley references a post by a […]

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Disparate treatment

Thursday, May 20, 2010

A few days ago I pointed out that Blumenthal had done something only Republicans are allowed to do. I noted a few examples of Republican malfeasance without discernible consequence, but it turns out that there’s an example much closer to the situation, featuring Lindsey Graham, John McCain’s soon to be successor as the media’s darling […]

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Vanity candidates

Monday, May 17, 2010

We learn today (or yesterday if we watched television) that Janet Peckinpaugh most likely voted for Joe Courtney back in 2008. Or, to be more accurate, she’s not willing to say who she voted for, which leads to the obvious conclusion. The truth is, that Janet is a person who hitherto had no very fixed […]

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I’m rethinking…

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

My support for the Audit the Fed legislation, that is. It passed the Senate 96-0. It’s a bad sign-that unanimous vote. I’ve noticed in the past that substantive legislation that passes unanimously or near unanimously usually brings trouble. Consider the Patriot Act (though we can take some comfort from the surprisingly large numbers of Dems […]

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A bit closer to home

Monday, May 10, 2010

Well, it’s not like New York City has made it official, nor, hopefully, has Apple, but it seems like there may be a bit of racial profiling going on at the SoHo Apple Store, complete with demands for “your papers”, all in the obviously worthy cause of keeping Ipads out of China until Apple wants […]

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Corporations can speak freely, and quash speech too

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

This sort of thing is all too familiar: VoteVets, a progressive organization founded by veterans of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, unveiled a strong television ad last week, connecting a climate bill to the nation’s national security interests. The spot notes that “a clean energy climate plan would cut our dependence on foreign oil […]

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Bigots anonymous

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

According to Mother Jones, the Supreme Court is about to lay the groundwork for handing corporate America yet another weapon in its continuing campaign to complete its hostile takeover of America, once again in the name of free speech. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Doe v. Reed, a case from Washington […]

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Same old same old?

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Greg Palast sees stolen votes almost everywhere. Usually he’s right, so naturally he’s ignored. He has an interesting perspective on the Arizona Let’s Start a Police State law: What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote […]

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Graham-the rerun

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Lindsey Graham appears to have done a favor for the Democrats, by bowing out of the climate bill talks. His ostensible reason-that Reid may take immigration up first-makes no sense. Whatever his motivation for doing it now-and Digby probably nails it here-this moment was inevitable, and so far as I can see this is a […]

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