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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...
Category Archives: Alabama politics
Clay Scofield Explains it All For You
Via Left in Alabama, video of Alabama’s Senator Clay Scofield being interviewed by a Huntsville reporter about his transvaginal ultrasound bill. My favorite part is when he graciously lets women avert their eyes from the screen while the state-mandated ultrasound … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Alabama Ultrasound Sexual Torture
Alabama will dare to tread where Virginia faltered. HB418 and SB12 would require doctors to perform an invasive ultrasound if it would display the fetus more clearly — and they would have to describe the images to the woman if … Continue reading
Mo Brooks Town Hall
Freshman Representative Mo Brooks held a town hall meeting in Killen, Alabama on Thursday, June 30th. Killen is a suburban community that turned out for him in November 2010, helping him become the first Republican to represent Alabama’s fifth district … Continue reading
States of Dissolution
That spate of new Republican legislatures enacting austerity? They’re doing more harm than good: Cutting state services not only harms vulnerable residents but also slows the economy’s recovery from recession by reducing overall economic activity. When states cut spending, they … Continue reading
New C & L Post Up
My latest C & L post, “Big Government Republicans in Alabama,” is up! Please read, view, and share often.
Witnesses Of Perry County
House Bill 50, which would allow the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) to regulate coal ash in landfills passed the Commerce and Small Business Committee unanimously on March 2, 2011. Citizens from Perry County were there to press for … Continue reading
Alabama, Race, and Redistricting
While I’m in Montgomery over the coming weeks, I’ll be looking into redistricting issues. The US Census started releasing data relevant to the question yesterday. Swing State Project: Alabama…remained at seven seats (although they were close to losing one). Their … Continue reading
The Sick Man Of Alabama
There are just twelve Democrats left in the State Senate. Three are newly-elected. Of the remaining nine, just two are white males; so of course, the scandal-plagued (and white) Roger Bedford has been elected their leader. He sponsored the bingo … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Chairmanosclerosis
This is everything wrong with Alabama politics in a nutshell: MONTGOMERY — For the first time in his nearly 42-year career as chief lobbyist for the Alabama Education Association, Dr. Paul Hubbert will have to work with a Legislature controlled … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Alabama Crimson Tea Tide
Alabama is officially a red state at last. Republicans own the state house for the first time in 136 years: Stewart attributed the Republicans’ taking of the Legislature for the first time in 136 years, as well as every state … Continue reading
Are Times Daily Editors Smoking Crack?
In endorsing Republican Robert Bentley for governor, my local newspaper sees fit to include this third-from-the-bottom ‘graff: If elected, Bentley would do well to reconsider his opposition to health care reform, his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law and other … Continue reading
