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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: Netroots Nation
I Am Not Going to Netroots Nation this Year
I received a voicemail from DFA yesterday to inform me that their DFA Netroots scholarships are not being offered to prior winners this year. Since I cannot cover the costs of travel, hotel, and admission, I’m not going this year. … Continue reading
I Have Neglected My Netroots Bid
Hey, I’ve been a little busy. If you haven’t already added your support, please click here and do that — I promise this is much easier than signing a White House petition. Netroots Nation and DFA do a great thing … Continue reading
I Demand to be Included in Legal Insurrection’s Sinister StopRush Conspiracy Theory
I had forgotten about Legal Insurrection and its author, William Jacobson, an Ivy League law professor who’s nuttier than a pecan-pistachio-peanut butter sandwich. He last appeared as a subject in this blog nearly three years ago, when he spent the … Continue reading
It’s That Time Again
Please click below to lend your support to my Netroots Nation DFA Scholarship bid.
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
At Netroots Nation 2010, a lone blogger set out to ask attendees of the largest conference of online activists and bloggers in the world whether their organizations had ever taken a check from George Soros. “The left” turns out to … Continue reading
It’s Coming Down
Regular readers know that I’m not a Jane Hamsher fan. There are still people blogging at FDL whose work I admire, but now there is one less: Marcy Wheeler, better known as @emptywheel, is moving her blog to a new … Continue reading
Midwest High Speed Rail Association
Not only did Minneapolis have awesome transit — buses, bike lanes, and light rail — but the Midwest High Speed Rail Association had a booth at the Netroots Nation confab. Manager of Education and Outreach Madeline Grennan was on hand … Continue reading
Lily Eskelsen on the Education Culture Wars
This is Lily Eskelsen, Vice President of the National Education Association. She can tell you all about the radical reconstruction that right-wing conservatives have in mind for public education. Name one political issue that doesn’t hinge on education — just … Continue reading
David Weigel at Netroots Nation
So I ran into David Weigel at Netroots, who quoted me: “I’m glad there’s not a hyper-focus on Obama,” says Matt Osborne, a videographer and blogger from Alabama. “I went down and filmed the new legislature in our state. It’s … Continue reading
My Interview with Craig Stellmacher
So yeah, I ran into Craig Stellmacher on my way out of the confab and gave an interview. Face for radio, voice for television. This is why I’m never going to be a TV pundit:
Bullet Points for Dan Choi, Who is Not the Queen
Memo to: CHOI, DAN, LT From: OSBORNE, MATT, SGT Date: 22 JUN 11 RE: Friendly Fire Incident Sir: I was not witness to your blue-on-blue incident at the panel entitled “What to do when the President is not that into … Continue reading
