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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: Piltdown politics
Spammer Causes Online Meltdown
On December 10th an unknown spammer posted a selectively-edited video of Senator Carl Levin at YouTube and proceeded to tweet the link 45 times over 24 hours. The link is now dead (video deleted by user), but it has already … Continue reading
Assault On Planned Parenthood Follows ACORN Template
If you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention. When ACORN became the victim of a smear campaign by right-wing media, many people shrugged. It seemed to them that ACORN had somehow “asked for it” in the way rape victims … Continue reading
Worse Than A Buddhist Temple Fundraiser
Remember when Republicans were all up in arms about this? The Democratic National Committee eventually returned the money donated by the Temple’s monks and nuns. Twelve nuns and employees of the temple, including the temple’s abbess, refused to answer questions … Continue reading
The Riddance Of James O’Keefe
James O’Keefe the turd third has a new agit-prop hit piece up at YouTube (link is wearing a condom). This time, O’Keefe has infiltrated the US Census (by getting a job) and found government waste (training timesheets). The fraud-who-would-be-called-journalist extrapolates … Continue reading
I Thought I Smelled A Rat
I did, I did smell a rat. Robert Krentz, whose murder by presumed illegal immigrants (or their coyote handlers) led to public outcry for an immigration crackdown, may have been killed by an American. The crime was “not random”: High-ranking … Continue reading
Koch’s Suckers
This is an epic deconstruction from Maddow. It is the most absurd form of right-wing projection that all of media and government are in the hands of some sinister conspiracy. In fact, that conspiracy theory itself is the conspiracy. Koch … Continue reading
Tea Party Purity
Sam Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, is mad at John McCain: “McCain was trying to use me,” Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. “I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a … Continue reading
ACORN Baltimore
These are supposed to be the most damaging videos by O’Keefe and Giles. Made in the Baltimore offices of ACORN, they fit the disturbing pattern I’ve noted in the San Diego and New York videos. Not only are they edited … Continue reading
