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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: racism in politics
Sunday Sermon: Fear of Change
Let us open with a hymn, courtesy of The Toadies: Please open your copies of Origin of Species to Chapter Nine, verse six: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It … Continue reading
GOP Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Why are there no Republicans in the Civil Rights hall of fame? This is the same Texas Board of Education that erased liberals from the civics books. This is Orwell, folks: Day by day and almost minute by minute the … Continue reading
Rush Limbaugh Deserves To Be Tortured
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh continued his racist fearmongering over the St. Louis bus incident. Ignoring the St. Louis Police Department’s retraction of those early reports, Limbaugh sarcastically ascribed racist motives to the president: I think the guy’s … Continue reading
Teabaggers Are All White? It’s The Media’s Fault
Washington Independent reporter Aaron Weiner reported this weekend on a phone conversation with Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC): I agreed that it was a geographically and economically diverse crowd, but I noted that the protesters were at least 99 percent white … Continue reading
Tea Party Racism
One year ago, FreedomWorks astroturfer Dick Armey said the “bubba vote” would prevent the election of Barack Obama. Here’s the video: Dick Armey added that “Republicans would not encourage” such prejudices. Then after the election of Barack Obama, he set … Continue reading
Racist Anti-Obama Bumper Sticker
Found by Shannyn Moore, better known as the Girl From Homer, for sale at an Alaska State Fair. Commenter Ron Toole sarcastically notes: “This bumper sticker obviously expresses their concern about rising deficits and taxes.” I recommend progressives buy these … Continue reading
Face of The Teabag Terror
Like I said in my open letter to Glenn Beck: “When racism compounds itself with your agenda, your agenda becomes racism.” The idiot in the picture on the left has not been identified, but he appeared at a tea party … Continue reading
Gates Will Have Beer w/Crowley
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has responded to President Obama’s call by agreeing to have a beer with Officer Crowley: After all, I first proposed that Sgt. Crowley and I meet as early as last Monday. If my experience leads to … Continue reading
Zero-Sum Republicans
A zero-sum game is one in which any player’s win is another player’s loss. If two people each have fifty marbles, the total number of marbles in the game can never exceed 100. If one player wins a marble, the … Continue reading
The Strange Story of Guy Hunt
Former Alabama governor Guy Hunt died yesterday. He was 75. In an odd convergence of history, his passing comes less than a day after Rod Blagojevich was impeached 59-0 by the Illinois Senate. For while countless press reports have mentioned … Continue reading
