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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...
Tag Archives: midterms
Linchpin Of Progress
Have you ever seen an act of civil disobedience at a tea party? Me either. Maybe that’s a sign that tea party “issues” are unserious.
Morning Awful: Rand Paul Stomp
A new ad from Kentucky Democrats:
Defeat Strategy: Play With Fire
At the local Republican campaign headquarters today trying to learn something about the way Republicans are organizing, I spoke with two very affable gentlemen very concerned about the president’s birth certificate, a supposed flood of illegal immigrants that has been … Continue reading
Fissiparous Flying Tea Party
Remember Mark Meckler, the Tea Party Patriots organizer and pyramid schemer? He’s been flying around the country in a multimillionaire’s private jet: Donating a jet to the Tea Party Patriots seems in keeping with Thompson’s politics. It’s also very generous. … Continue reading
Tim Profitt’s Lame Excuse
Tim Profitt, the man who stomped on MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle’s head, says he didn’t mean to do it and blames his disability. Regular readers know that I have severe lumbar damage that causes me agonizing bouts of pain on … Continue reading
Cure For Curb-Stomping
My new C & L post, Cure For Curb-Stomping, is up. Please read and share!
Heisenberg Polling?
Seems all the hoopla about “enthusiasm gaps” may have spurred Democrats to vote: While it’s impossible to tell for whom people are voting, so far more Democrats than Republicans are casting ballots in Iowa, Maryland, North Carolina, Louisiana and Nevada’s … Continue reading
Actual, Real, Not-Imaginary Tyrants
It just gets worse. The security outfit Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller hired to manhandle nosy reporters has (A) bragged about being staffed by former Blackwater employees (B) had an expired license. Oh, and Miller ran over an 8-year old … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Biker Gangs At Rallies
Not to be outdone by Joe Miller’s goon squad, Florida’s Allen West (FL-22) has his biker gang buddies intimidating Florida Democratic Party campaign staffers at events. This is what actual, real, not-imaginary tyranny looks like:
Are Times Daily Editors Smoking Crack?
In endorsing Republican Robert Bentley for governor, my local newspaper sees fit to include this third-from-the-bottom ‘graff: If elected, Bentley would do well to reconsider his opposition to health care reform, his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law and other … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Don’t Touch The Blogger
Alaska got a little touch of Iran-style press relations last night. Senate candidate Joe Miller had just finished telling a crowd the United States should adopt “East German” immigration rules when Tony Hopfinger, founder and editor of the Alaska Dispatch … Continue reading
