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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
Netroots Nation
Here’s where you might find me at Netroots Nation today, besides the Coal River Mountain Watch table: 9:00 – A Conversation with White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer 10:30 – Engaging Progressives in the Fight to Save Public Education 13:15 … Continue reading
Netroots Nation
Where you might find me today at Netroots Nation, besides the Coal River Mountain Watch table: 8:00 – Morning News Dump 9:00 – Cultural Organizing, Youth and the Left 10:30 – Where Crazy Comes From 12:00 – Southern Caucus 14:00 … Continue reading
I Need Everyone’s Help
A crack team has picked out my best three videos and I need to know which one is the best. Please watch ALL THREE and choose your favorite below the fold, because I have a chance to show it to … Continue reading
I’m Going To Minneapolis
I’m in awe of my Tweeps. The #1stAL crew pushed my total just shy of 500 votes before DFA closed the polls last night. Thanks to everyone who voted, tweeted, shared, and otherwise made it possible to grab the committee’s … Continue reading
Netroots Nation
The competition in the third and final round of the DFA Netroots Nation scholarship competition is fierce, but last night a bunch of Twitterzens rallied to the #1stAL banner and pushed me into FIRST PLACE. I need every vote I … Continue reading
Send Me To Netroots Nation
Please click below to send me to Netroots Nation! It only takes a few seconds, and means a lot. I’m taking the Goat Hill Project with me to offer a model for state bloggers, so attendance is more important this … Continue reading
Time Again For Netroots Nation
That time of year again already? Yes! Democracy For America wants you to want me for their scholarship. As this post rolls, I am already on my way to Montgomery; there is plenty on my plate and perhaps too much … Continue reading
Netroots Failure
I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support the chairman, despite their preference … Continue reading
ABCs of the Education Culture Wars
Dan Quinn, Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Michael Bérubé, Judy Jennings, Steve Newton Dan Quinn begins by talking about Texas and the schoolbook controversy as an example of the right’s mission to dumb down public education and warp it into a weapon of … Continue reading
How The American Left Works (Or Doesn’t)
The Washington Post says a progressive group is FINALLY going to organize a rally: Leaders of the groups have been meeting for about three months in a planning process that some participants called arduous, debating everything from the name of … Continue reading
