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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
Morning Awful: Prison Stimulus
Alabama used $118 million of the state’s $1.1 billion “education” allotment from the 2009 stimulus bill for prisons: Alabama spent about $4,500 in education stimulus dollars per prisoner, about four times the amount per student in kindergarten through 12th grade. Also, … Continue reading
Alabama Finds a New Low to Reach with HB 56
This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center told Yahoo News about calls on their Alabama hotline reporting denial of food stamps for citizen children of undocumented immigrants. Of course, the denials are probably the result of confusion about the law … Continue reading
Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner
Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner was at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute at the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville on August 26th. He graciously spoke on camera about his county’s coal ash controversy in the context of economic development … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Intended Consequences
It’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 strictest in the country, is being … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
Remember the 2007 pay raise that Republicans used to bludgeon Democrats at the voting booths in 2010 and take over the Alabama legislature for the first time in 136 years? Turns out it wasn’t such a terrible thing, after all … Continue reading
NPR’s This American Life in Alabama
Writer Jack Hitt put together a brilliant piece for this weekend’s edition of the show. Work like this is why conservatives hate public broadcasting, and why it is so critically important. Alabama’s HB56 “papers please” law is Exhibit A in … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Birmingham Shrinks
Via Alabama’s 13 news: Census data released Thursday shows Birmingham’s population fell to 212,237 between 2000 and 2010, continuing a trend of decline. That’s a decrease of 12.6 percent over the decade, but it’s still the most in the state. … Continue reading
Medical Marijuana Bill in Alabama
This is much better than prison labor bills and HB 56 “fixes.” Rep. K.L. Brown, R-Jacksonville, will try to make medical marijuana legal in Alabama: Brown’s sister used medicinal marijuana to control her pain before she died of breast cancer … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Reynold’s Rap
Wait 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 Obama is a Muslim, and he … Continue reading
Morning Awful: The HB56 Fix
Governor Bentley and friends will try to fix our “papers please” immigration law: Bentley, House Speaker Mike Hubbard and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, said in a statement they do not plan to repeal or weaken the law, widely … Continue reading
“There are No More Back Rooms in the Alabama Democratic Party”
Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy gave a speech earlier this week at the party Hall of Fame induction. Kennedy has welcomed new, tough times for ADP, especially the defection of whites to the state Republican Party, as an opportunity … Continue reading
