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Fresh Dispatches From The Culture Wars
The William Talley Burn Notice: Final Update
June 3rd, 2013
Picture via the Tennessean. The following update has been added to The William Talley Burn Notice: Bill Talley, a former health-care [...]
William Talley Sentenced To Prison
May 29th, 2013
William Talley aka @Political_Bill on Twitter was sentenced to one year in prison and eight years of probation for possession of child porno[...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Drones
May 24th, 2013
So on Thursday, May 23rd 2013, President Obama made this speech. It's a good speech. I agree with quite a lot of it (by no means all of it.[...]
Ken White Knows Who The Real Bullies Are
May 22nd, 2013
Los Angeles Deputy DA John Patrick Frey aka @Patterico posted unredacted documents (.PDF) at his blog revealing Nadia Naffe’s personal and[...]
Not Your Personal Army: How Unite Blue Ignited A War With Anonymous And Then Tried To Blame Their Critics
May 15th, 2013
The Anonymous hacktivist collective likes to say they are Not Your Personal Army (NYPA), meaning they do not care about your petty dramas [...]
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Category Archives: Republicans Meet The Teabag Terror
Benghazi Is Not A Tom Clancy Novel
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Share the post “Benghazi Is Not A Tom Clancy Novel”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail On CNN yesterday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) expressed dissonant disapproval of the president’s failure to teleport reinforcements to the US consulate in Benghazi. You have to admire the way he … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Mourdoch Bipartisanship
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Share the post “Morning Awful: Mourdoch Bipartisanship”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailLadies and gentlemen, the modern Republican Party: I keep saying that Republicans have no one but themselves to blame. Future historians writing about this era should look back to the moment that Mike Castle … Continue reading
The House GOP Has a Plan
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Share the post “The House GOP Has a Plan”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailBooman got it exactly right last week: It is within the Republicans power to obstruct and, by doing so, make the president look weak and ineffectual. That’s the path they’ve chosen. However, … Continue reading
Atlas Shrugging Off Tea Party, Republicans
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Share the post “Atlas Shrugging Off Tea Party, Republicans”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWhat was that I was saying about the Republican Party going bankrupt? From the website-that-must-not-be-linked: With $11 million on hand at the end of June — and about $2 million in reported … Continue reading
Graham Comes Out
Share the post “Graham Comes Out”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailQuote the First: On four occasions, Graham met with Tea Party groups. The first, in his Senate office, was “very, very contentious,” he recalled. During a later meeting, in Charleston, Graham said he challenged them: … Continue reading
Kulturkampf And Rand Paul
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Share the post “Kulturkampf And Rand Paul”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Kudos to Rachel Maddow for recognizing that tea party extremism is essentially leftover reaction to the Sixties. The word she’s looking for — the noun that describes this kind of regressive politics in … Continue reading
Ron Paul Triangulates Shelby
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Share the post “Ron Paul Triangulates Shelby”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This ad has started showing up all over Huffington Post lately. Click it and you’ll visit Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty, otherwise known as C4L, where a set of Frank Luntz and Paulite … Continue reading
Choosing Not To Choose
Share the post “Choosing Not To Choose”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Senator Lindsey Graham explains his holdup of the bipartisan climate bill: “Moving forward on immigration — in this hurried, panicked manner — is nothing more than a cynical political ploy,” Graham said. “Let’s … Continue reading
Two Swords Are Enough
Share the post “Two Swords Are Enough”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI was selling flags at a gun show all weekend and had to spend yesterday evening catching up with a news cycle that’s finally catching up with me. Frank Rich recognized the teabag terror … Continue reading
Let The Purges Begin
Share the post “Let The Purges Begin”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail At HuffPo, David Frum’s wife recognizes the end of conservative philosophy: I can categorically state I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate — once the hallmarks of Reaganism, … Continue reading
Palin’s Party Prattle
Share the post “Palin’s Party Prattle”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSarah wants a new third party to, y’know, make Republicans have to debate harder an’ stuff: ThinkProgress has a list of her statements about a third party; up til now she has taken the more … Continue reading





