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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: progressives
Just in Case Anyone’s Really Thinking Ron Paul Is the Answer
By Emilia1956 OK, everybody who thinks Ron Paul’s the only politician worth the bother, who thinks he’s the answer to your wet dreams of getting a Progressive (well, what you define as “Progressive”) foot into the door of government, tell … Continue reading
Alan Grayson: Judged by the Company He Keeps?
Alan Grayson’s runnning for Congress again next year. Somehow, I seem to be on his mailing list, and this weekend seems to be his money bomb weekend. Yesterday, I received an e-mail, courtesy of ActBlue, featuring this endorsement of Grayson, … Continue reading
How To Occupy Main Street From Wall Street
I’m hardly “power elite” or “establishment media,” but apparently I’m a “liberal scold” when it comes to occupying Wall Street. Kevin Gosztola on the crowd in Liberty Park, via FDL: The organizers, who pride themselves in being “leaderless,” have sought … Continue reading
The Smiley-West Bitchfest Solves Nothing
Funny how Obama-bashing lefties will say their Puritanical criticisms of the president have no effect on the progressive agenda, then turn around and hammer any critique of the Wall Street uprising as pointless, counterproductive bitching. Over at The American Prospect, an … Continue reading
Ralph Nader Can Run For Dog Catcher Or STFU
Borrowing from my co-blogger, I’ve got two words for the idea of running a primary opponent against President Obama: SLOW. CLAP.
Wall Street Uprising Is Not A Main Street Production
The New York Times reported on events in the city this weekend: Throughout the afternoon hundreds of demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan. They milled, held teach-ins, engaged in discussion and debate and in some instances embarked … Continue reading
On Criticizing the President
by vdaze There is a myth being perpetuated by some that those who consistently and vocally support the President do not accept criticism of him in any form. Rubbish. The “beef” that I, and many I identify with most closely, … Continue reading
The Greenwald Misconceptions
Juan Cole, in the most readable essay of the week, hammers Glenn Greenwald for his insistence that America led the charge to intervention in Libya: There is no evidence for this allegation whatsoever. When I asked Glenn Greenwald whether a … Continue reading
Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
So far, Common Cause is the only liberal organization that has brought the power of civil disobedience to bear on the 112th Congress in this time of manufactured debt limit crisis. Eleven clergy were arrested in a demo under the … Continue reading
The One-Two Punch
There are two types of people in the progressive blogosphere, and each side could do with being a bit more understanding of the other. Continue reading
