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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: Alex Jones
Rand Paul Hangs Out With Alex Jones
This is not a one-off. Rand Paul is a frequent guest on Alex Jones’s lunatic show: Question: why isn’t the “liberal” media examining the candidate’s belief system more thoroughly?
Morning Awful
A Glenn Beck fan is no longer satisfied with his insanity, so she makes the leap to Alex Jones. Meta-wacky! I love it when Jones gripes about the guy who stole his act.
Morning Video
How did I miss this? If there’s one thing I love to see, it’s lunatics fighting over who gets to lead the fringe.
Why People Believe Glenn Beck
At Newsweek, Sharon Begley delves into the minds of those who believe crazy things about Obama and finds a phenomenon called motivated reasoning: “Rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief…people actually seek out … Continue reading
9/11 and Obama’s Birth Certificate
Blogger Ben Cohen’s Thursday piece in the Huffington Post has drawn a lot of criticism — not because he calls the birthers racist, which they are; but because he claims the birthers and 9/11 “truth” conspiracy nuts are connected, which … Continue reading
Quote of the Week
“And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” Paul Krugman ……………………. Was there ever a dividing line? Bush was elected by eight years of talk radio … Continue reading
Monster in the Margins
In the words of Dylan Loewe at HuffPo, the Republican Party has become a study in self-marginalization: In every way imaginable, the party so famous for using political wedges has spent the three months since Obama’s inauguration driving one of … Continue reading
Update on Pittsburgh Shooter
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Mr. Poplawski’s view of guns and personal freedom took a turn toward the fringes of American politics. With Mr. Perkovic, he appeared to share a belief that the government was controlled from unseen forces, that troops … Continue reading
