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Joe McCarthy redux

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Allen West one-ups Joe McCarthy. At least McCarthy claimed to have the goods on his targets and claimed to have them written down. Well, two can play this game. I heard that Allen West has a gay Muslim illegal immigrant lover in Washington and another one in Florida. And I truly did hear it, because […]

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Romney: I won’t tell you what I’ll do, cause you wouldn’t like it

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

One way to avoid the need to shake your Etch-A-Sketch is to not sketch anything in the first place. Apparently, a sketch free campaign, at least on certain issues, is what Romney has in mind. As he explained to the Weekly Standard, in so many words, if he sketched out his plans, he’d lose. Poor […]

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First they take Tom Paine, now it’s John Locke

Saturday, March 24, 2012

A right wing blogger at the John Locke Foundation made a bit of news this week by posting a racist picture of Obama. I’m not writing about the racism, which is a bit like reporting the proverbial dog bites man (though, it would appear dogs bite men much less frequently than right wingers utter racial […]

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Yet another example of IOKIYAR

Monday, March 19, 2012

Another post from another liberal about the media’s failure to point out that most of what comes out of Romney’s mouth is a lie. For some reason, while reading this article, my mind flew back to another campaign that took place a long long time ago, in a political galaxy far far away. The time […]

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All the sharks, jumped

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

There was a time, on this blog, that I actually was capable of writing what passed, at least in my own mind if nowhere else, for satirical or humorously mocking pieces about Republicans, but I admit my powers seem to be fading. I’ve blamed myself, to myself, until today I had a revelation. It is, […]

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Arizona goes where Congress has not yet tread

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Do Republicans really think they have a winner here? Do they really think they can win by locking up the narrow minded white elderly, mostly male vote? Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for […]

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It’s what’s in his lyin’ heart

Monday, March 12, 2012

Wow. Only conservatives get to be this disingenuous. A while back Rick Santorum lied about the Dutch euthanasia law. He said that one in 20 Dutch deaths are the results of euthanasia, many involuntary. A lie from first to last. Here’s his spokesperson not answering a Dutch reporter’s question about Little Ricky’s big lies.   […]

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Consolidation in the world of god

Sunday, March 11, 2012

At the Washington Monthly, Ed Kilgore notes that there has been an uptick in church foreclosures in the past year. He notes that the usual suspects that see problems for religious liberty in Obama’s religious neutral requirements imposed on insurance plans, don’t seem to have a problem with the banks destroying the religious infrastructure. Part […]

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I didn’t think he had it in him

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The non-apology apology is an American art form. I don’t know if it exists in other cultures, but my guess is that if there are analogs, they reflect the various cultures in which those foreign non-apologies are delivered. Here in the U.S.A., where hypocrisy is itself an art form, the non-apology apology usually consists of […]

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Big surprise: Catholics don’t like Saint Ricky

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

This really should come as no surprise: Despite Santorum’s devout Catholicism, Romney beat Santorum, 44% to 37%, among Michigan Catholics, who comprised 30% of the state’s electorate. In Ohio, by contrast, Catholics were just one-quarter of the vote in 2008. Meanwhile, Santorum trounced Romney among Michigan’s Evangelicals by sixteen points. Such voters amounted to 39% […]

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