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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: Morning Awful
Morning Awful: Boehner’s Transit Funding Plan
Kill this bill! John Boehner is trying to cut transit from the highway bill and use the funding hole as a lever to increase drilling activity and approve the Keystone XL pipeline. He’s really bad at his job, though, so … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
Republicans across the country are doubling-down on everything that made Americans mad at them last year, like union-busting and abortion laws. All their promises to create jobs were cover for austerity measures and regressive legislation. South Carolina, the state that … 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
Morning Awful: Gasbags Gang Up on Gasland
Director Josh Fox, the breakthrough documentarian whose Gasland brought much-needed attention to the issue of hydraulic gas fracking, was arrested trying to exercise the First Amendment yesterday. Republicans on the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment brought in Capitol Hill … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Komen Won’t Cure
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a charity that has been providing breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood clinics for years, decided to let poor women die rather than be connected to the organization anymore. The reason? A congressional “investigation:” … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Freddie Mac
Privatized in 1968, Freddie Mac was late to the subprime game. Its status as a “government sponsored entity” gave it a certain chip on the shoulder about profitability — so it bought in big, and got stuck with lots of … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Allen West Says I’m Next
Congressman Allen West isn’t to be satisfied by my service in the US Army, where I learned to avoid commanding officers like him: I’m simply not as “American” as him, so I don’t get the privilege of the First Amendment. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Arizona Ethnic Cleansing in Progress
The State of Arizona is determined to whitewash history by ending all ethnic studies programs. This is ostensibly to support the racial ego of white kids, though of course there’s totally nothing racist about that. Such actions aren’t just aimed at … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Gingrich Geller Gambit
Newt Gingrich will blow any dog whistle and broadcast any bullshit. It takes a craven, soulless person to say things like “we are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism” with a straight face. Yesterday, the GOP … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Mitch Daniels
The Republican SOTU response should stand out for two things: one, Mitch Daniels came across as completely out of touch. Conservatives are trapped in a liturgy these days, as if every issue requires the correct prayers to the free market. … Continue reading
