Archive for April 17th, 2009

Fox News Reports on Its Own DHS Hysteria

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And Shep Smith does real journalism again. I can’t find an embeddable video of this, but you can see it over at Crooks and Liars and you should watch the whole thing. What he reports is: There was a left-wing extremist report released in January, that we haven’t heard anyone whine about yet.  Any thoughts […]

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Stupid Marketing

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Sure the newspaper business is a dying model.  But the dummies that run the New York Times missed a huge opportunity to make the NYT into the Nation’s liberal newspaper of record.   I think over the last eight years there would have been a huge market for first rate  investigative reporting and commentary from […]

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I wonder if Rick Jetson will rally his base for this one

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Hey…lookie, lookie Susiemadrak.com had this lovely find: This month, every Republican senator, joined bizarrely by 10 Democrats, pushed for yet another tax break for the super-wealthy — the elite 5,854 estates in all of America valued at $7 million or more per couple. Who are these senators so distressed that the children of the very […]

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Around the Tea Bag Friday

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Two stories dominated the Delaware blogosphere this week: 1) John Carney upsetting the Delaware Way and perhaps forcing Mike Castle into retirement (one way or the other), 2) the gathering of homogeneous crowds who think their taxes have been raised even though they got a tax cut and who love tea bags, or teabagging, or […]

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Poll: What should happen if Texas were to secede from the Union?

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Texas Gov Rick Perry, and a great many teabggers, think that Texas has the right to break away from the United States because we elected a Democratic President. As, the burnt Orange Report points out, we fought a war back in the 1800’s (and we have a 5-3 Supreme Court decision) that settled that question. […]

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