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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: Paranoia and the Post 9/11 World
Duggars Okay, Muslims Not
Florida Family Association, best-known for their campaign against Disney’s “Gay Day,” are so terrified of a new TLC show about Muslims living in America that they’ve engaged in an advertiser pressure campaign. Bank of America and Lowe’s have already removed … Continue reading
TIME Magazine is Keeping You Dumb
Media doesn’t tell you what to think; media decides what you should think about. If you’ve wondered why Americans are so dumb about the world, the side-by-side comparison of TIME Magazine covers explains a big part of our problem. Original … Continue reading
“Unexplainable” 7 World Trade Center Collapse Explained
Set even the most modern steel building on fire, and then don’t put out the fire, and it will eventually collapse as if made of sticks. No great conspiracy necessary!
Adam Kokesh is Doing it Wrong (and so is the Peace Movement)
Adam Kokesh is not a progressive, and definitely not a pacifist. He’s a Grover Norquist fan, Ron Paulite, and 9/11 “truther” with a habit of going around armed. None of this disqualifies him from the freedom to have an opinion, … Continue reading
Punk Patriot
Here’s one more person I can’t wait to meet at Netroots. Punk Patriot has been dissecting the hoopla with the best of them for a long time on YouTube. This is a typical example: echoing the frenzied conspiracy theories around … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Nothing New, Newt?
This weekend saw Newt go full metal birther: What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asked. “That is the most accurate, predictive … Continue reading
Sarah Pines for Clash of Civilizations
Sarah Palin asks: If those who wish to build this Ground Zero mosque are sincerely interested in encouraging positive “cross-cultural engagement” and dialogue to show a moderate and tolerant face of Islam, then why haven’t they recognized that the decision … Continue reading
Shahzad Is Talking
So the feds managed to arrest Shahzad before the plane could take off, and asked him questions, and then read him his Miranda rights before continuing to ask him questions — questions to which he is still giving answers. But…not … Continue reading
TIMEOUT
Did I mention I am working on video of 300 tea party patriots assembled under this today? They are working hard to transform the country in their image. They mean to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. End-times … Continue reading
The Golden Age of Paranoid Politics Revisited
Writing for the Philadelphia Enquirer, Tirdad Derakhshani deconstructs the paranoid flavor of the seventies so well, some editor has imposed false balance: Beck’s penchant for finding enemies around every corner makes him one of today’s leading mouthpieces for what the … Continue reading
Threat Condition Smart
The Obama administration is putting some sense into international air travel screening procedures: For example, if the U.S. has intelligence about a Nigerian man between the ages of 22 and 32 whom officials believe is a threat or a known … Continue reading
