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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.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: press failures
POLITICO Slips The Surly Bonds Of Earth
The website-that-shall-not-be-linked found a way for the defeat of Artur Davis to be a defeat for Obama. With the headline “Short Obama coattails for black pol,” POLITICO opined: The stunning defeat suffered by Rep. Artur Davis — one of the … 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
Pinning A Win
Watching this first half of Major Garrett’s interview with Obama for Faux Noise, it’s abundantly clear that Garrett chose the “lightning round” pacing in hopes of pinning Obama to commit on issues that haven’t worked their way through Congress. It’s … 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
Business Press
Via Barry Ritzholz at The Big Picture, an exhaustive study of the business press as the meltdown approached proves what everyone already knows: not enough investigative journalism and far too many puff pieces. If only Jon Stewart had had a … Continue reading
