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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Author Archives: Emilia1956
Racial Politics
Because that’s really what this is all about.
Civics 101 on Morning Joe
Where Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania explains why our government is built on compromise and why, without it, we are dead as a nation. Required viewing for those who still think the power lies mainly in the Executive … Continue reading
Richard Clarke Schools Bill Maher on Why It Matters Whom You Elect President
Marriage Is a Civil Union, Mrs Greenspan
I am pretty damned angry that various demographics amongst those who call themselves “Progressives” are allowing themselves to be led down the Primrose Path (that’s red, as in Republican) to divisiveness and unnecessary bickering just at a time when the … Continue reading
Losing to Religion
I don’t believe in God, but I don’t condemn anyone else who does. Most of my friends in the US are believers, and a fair few who live there are not. As surprising as it might seem to many, I … Continue reading
Something We Knew All Along
Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan … oh, and Frank Luntz. Get them all together in a room, and you have a gaggle of trouble. Now it seems, as the 2012 Presidential campaign gets underway that, from the very first … Continue reading
The Liberal Argument Against Immigration
I know … We’re the side who’s supposed to be for immigration, but if we ever needed an argument against this, here are two of the best reasons why it’s not really smart to just let anyone in the country:- … Continue reading
Ratf**kers, Republicans, and Bin Laden
Question: Does anybody see anything wrong with this political advert? Because I don’t. First, it’s politics and it’s an election year. Of course, a President trying for re-election is going to harp for all it’s worth on his major achievements; … Continue reading
When the One Percent Pander, It’s Insulting to the Rest
Bill Maher had occasion to interview Charles Murray this week. Murray, as you know, is the Libertarian social commentator-author-cum-political pundit, whose works include Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (which argued, quite simply, that social welfare programs did more harm … Continue reading
If You Want to Know How Paul Ryan’s Budget Will Work, Look at the UK
Martin Bashir shows us all exactly what would happen if Paul Ryan’s budget becomes the law of the land. Because it’s the law of the land in Britain, who – today – officially announced it’s in double dip recession. By … Continue reading
We the People
If you’re seriously thinking about voting for Romney, or voting Third Party or not even voting (both of which are tantamount to voting for Romney), you seriously need to listen to The Boss. Emphasis on the “we.” We the people. … Continue reading
