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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)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.
Category Archives: Obama vs The Media
The Justifiable Anger of Black Women … For Those Who Should Know Better (But Don’t)
By Emilia 1956 As we know, our First Lady, Michelle Obama, recently answered back in an interview about the latest Obama gossip book, where she’s less-than-overtly portrayed as the ubiquitous embodiment of an “angry black woman.” It’s been interesting to … Continue reading
Riding The Big Tent Down
There is a vast difference between a minority of people riled up to shout about the president and a majority of Americans actually disapproving of the president. In fact, Obama is still very popular: In a survey of approximately 1,500 … Continue reading
Obama Versus The Media
POLITICO, the Beltway Drudge-link trolling website that shall not be linked here, has an article up today about tension between the press and the president. It’s sure to get attention from the wingnutosphere, where it will somehow find a way … Continue reading
How Obama Gets A Climate Bill
Step one: open offshore oil leasing for red states. He’s going to make concessions that anger the left, but he’ll make this one now so he can spend the summer on the offensive talking about carbon. That’s step two. Obama … Continue reading
Your Liberal Media At Work
So I was watching CNN yesterday morning as they interviewed Gary Berntsen, author of Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. Berntsen laid out the missteps and miscues in Washington … Continue reading
The Great Unraveling of Media
In 1964, William Buckley led a rebellion of the conservative intelligentsia against the John Birch Society and its hoopleheaded paranoia. In 2009, the same JBS hooplehead paranoia is in charge of the conservative movement — and the intelligentsia is now … Continue reading
..and on the third day, the public option rose
Sundays brought a cycle of rumor and denial about health care reform. Huffington Post late Saturday night: President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as … Continue reading
