Category Archives: Alabama Republicans

Alabama Goes Full Retard, Elects “Twinkle”

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Goes Full Retard, Elects “Twinkle””FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Roy Moore is once again Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, replacing the last Democrat on the state’s highest bench. He says he won’t try bringing graven images into state … Continue reading →

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Alabama Will See Things We’ve Never Seen Before

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Will See Things We’ve Never Seen Before”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAlabama won’t be getting a new dime of new revenue. Governor Robert Bentley has taken the no-new-taxes pledge, so instead lawmakers will fill the hole with cuts to Medicaid and … Continue reading →

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Santorum, Gingrich Appeal to Authoritarians in Alabama

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Santorum, Gingrich Appeal to Authoritarians in Alabama”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Laurens County, South Carolina Republican Party has high standards for its candidates. They have to pledge their opposition to abortion under any circumstances, their support of unlimited gun ownership, … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Santorum-Gingrich Debate

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Santorum-Gingrich Debate”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMitt Romney might have been shrewd to sit out the Alabama Republican Presidential Forum in Birmingham last night, because it gave Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich a chance to try and out-wingnut each other … Continue reading →

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God Strikes Limestone Correctional Facility

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “God Strikes Limestone Correctional Facility”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail So I am in Montgomery, escaping the softball-sized hail raining on my hometown, and reading about the storm damage to Limestone Correctional Facility, when I find out about this. It’s from a … Continue reading →

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Shadrack McGill Wants an Old Testament Civilization

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Shadrack McGill Wants an Old Testament Civilization”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis video needs to go viral. It’s of Alabama’s own State Senator Shadrack McGill (the guy who said God wants teacher pay cuts) declaring that education, taxes, and budgets are less … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Intended Consequences

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Intended Consequences”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIt’s “who could have foreseen the breaking of the levees?” all over again. Robert Palmer on Republican plans for their sophomore session in charge of the Alabama state house: The controversial immigration law, the … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Reynold’s Rap

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Reynold’s Rap”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWait for it, this gets even better: At a meeting of the Marengo County Republican Executive Committee, as reported by the Marengo Democrat-Reporter, Reynolds told gathered Republicans that there is “no doubt President Barack … Continue reading →

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Will ALEC Reinstate Slavery in Alabama by 2014?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Will ALEC Reinstate Slavery in Alabama by 2014?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailConservative governance has never made Alabama a land of opportunity. The state ranked 47th in a recent study of economic mobility by Opportunity Nation and the Human Development Project. But … Continue reading →

Posted in alabama, Alabama Republicans, ALEC, crime, Kochs, Kulturkampf | Tagged corrections, peonage, prison labor, prisons, slavery, vagrancy | 8 Comments

Morning Awful: Leura Canary’s New Job

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Leura Canary’s New Job”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSenator Richard Shelby managed to drag out her replacement until this May, but a key figure in the Don Siegelman prosecution has moved on to greener pastures: This week the political newsletter, … Continue reading →

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Mo Brooks Town Hall

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Mo Brooks Town Hall”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailFreshman 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 … Continue reading →

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