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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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A suggestion for Little Ricky

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

From the Times, reporting on Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: But from the moment Mr. Romney stepped to the podium, flanked by two teleprompters, even he knew that he was not having a good day. A bit of advice to Little Ricky (the enemy of my enemy is my friend): You might want to tar Romney […]

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Yet more grifting

Monday, February 6, 2012

 A few days ago I wrote about Jan Brewer’s book buying scam. Here’s how it works. Start a PAC. Have the PAC buy multiple copies of your own book at full price. Repeat until you run out of suckers. Apparently, it’s a common scam. Christine O’Donnell, the woman who is not a witch, gave her […]

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Brooks runs interference for racist scum

Monday, February 6, 2012

Not being able to stomach David Brooks, I was unaware that he was touting a book by racist pseudo-social scientist Charles Murray. Apparently Murray has discovered that the white working class is also genetically inferior-hence income inequality. A blogger named Peter, at Ph.D. Octopus (disclosure: he shares half my genes) says all that need be […]

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Republicans attack the Fed

Saturday, February 4, 2012

 From the Times: Republicans Sharply Question Bernanke for Fed’s Focus on Job Market Summary:   Why are you trying to block our attempts to tank the economy? Don’t you know we have an election to win?

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Newt defends the poor

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Newt’s still in it. Sarah says that a vote for Newt will annoy a liberal and all I can say is that I’ve never enjoyed being annoyed so much. You have to love the guy. He lives in the eternal present, totally lacking in self awareness or shame. Today he lectured Mitt Romney for saying […]

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