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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: firebaggers
Scary Stupid Headupassitis
By Emilia1956 For the umpteenth time, Hillary Clinton has said she’s leaving politics. She’s not interested in running for President. She’s finished. Done. Retired. For the time being. At least after this stint as Secretary of State. According to an … Continue reading
Obotomapologies
When President Obama was elected, he used the words “Armenia” and “genocide” in the same sentence because words are important. He was right to do so. He is wrong now for not using them in the same sentence. While I … Continue reading
Both Sides Do It
The Republican Party always has a new plan for taking down Clinton Obama, and that plan always makes room for liberal discontent. Here’s Greg Sargent yesterday: While it’s true that disapproval of Obama on the economy is running high over … Continue reading
The Year of the Cockroach
By Emilia1956 If nothing else, let it be said that the Presidency of Barack Obama proved one precise thing: That the United States is not a post-racial country. More importantly – as 2011 revealed – racism is as rampant on … Continue reading
Meanwhile, While the Left Was Looking for Reasons to Criticize the President
By Emilia1956 Three years have passed. That’s three years when Democratic voters of all stripes could have built a viable coalition behind the President’s leadership. (Yes, Professional Left, he does lead. He leads; you stir shit). And whilst the Professional … Continue reading
Cenk Uygur Comes Out of the Woodwork
By Emilia 1956 I’m old enough to remember ratfuckers. They appeared, as if from nowhere, during the 1972 election year – young Republicans, mostly college students, trained to look and act like young Democrats of the day (the forerunners of … Continue reading
Strange Bedfellows
By Emilia 1956 Zaid Jilani, a proud Southerner, doesn’t think Ron Paul is at all racist. He tweets:- And:- Zaid Jilani is the Jimmy Olsen of Think Progress, the little kid they’ve let sit at the big kids’ table; but … Continue reading
Where’s Adam Green When You Need Him?
By Emilia1956 Remember Adam Green? Sure, you do … he’s the geeky-looking guy who fronts the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. He’s the grifter political activist whose group holds accolades from no less than Ed Schultz (“The top Progressive group in … Continue reading
Joan Walsh, Katha Pollitt, and Katrina vanden Heuvel Pissing on the President
By Emilia1956 Well, there’s an election year next year, and I wonder what the hyper-vocal Professional Left will do if Newt or Mitt come to sit in the Oval Office. They whine and whinge and name-call and block the people … Continue reading
David Sirota Misses the Point
By Emilia 1956 Concern troll EmoProg Ninja Salon writer and head boy at the Glenn Greenwald School of Sock Puppetry and Scream-Infested Bullying David Sirota has discovered Ron Paul. Like the rest of the EmoProg Left, whose tactics and emotions … Continue reading
Spot the Concern Troll
By Emilia 1956 I’ve lived in England too long. Every time I see David O Atkins has written a new blog for Digby, British alarm bells sound in my head – like air raid sirens:- IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN!
