Archive for September 21st, 2009

I Love Graphs

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I Love Graphs

…if only because it makes the truth visible so even Republicans can understand it. And speaking of Republicans, they have been crying about debt recently, and how the President’s stimulus package and automotive company bailouts have exploded the deficit, all the while seemingly forgetting about the multiple trillions of dollars in tax cuts President Reagan […]

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Late Night Video — The Elements

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Great infographic video mostly aimed at kids to explain chemical elements — scored by They Might Be Giants! Very Cool and Very Fun.

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Evening Open Thread

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Evening Open Thread

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The Priority of Outrage

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Steve Newton has rightly criticized us and other liberal bloggers for not providing a strong defense of ACORN, an organization that, even by far right conservative blogger David Anderson’s admission, does good work for the poor and, as recently discovered today, in foreclosure and debt counseling. Steve is right, and you all should read his […]

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Why the Rightwing Jihad for Cutting Spending is a Loser

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Read every word of Bruce Bartlett’s explanation.

Bartlett goes into great detail on how “cutting spending” is a pipe dream — either because the kind of stuff that conservatives always tell you they want to get gone won’t do much to balance the budget or because there are not enough votes to get rid of it. He starts with showing how much control the President and Congress respectively have over spending and ends with busting the myths about how Reagan or Thatcher cut spending.

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Steve Newton Comes to the Aid of ACORN Delaware

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Steve has a post up about a sting on the Delaware office of ACORN. A blogger/reporter from Kansas called the Delaware office to get some assistance from them to avoid foreclosure.

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Monday Open Thread

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What’s on your mind? I’ll start – this story caught my attention – Tom Coburn’s chief of staff spoke about “The New Masculinity” at the Value Voters Conference: Schwartz then recalled “a very good friend” of his “who was in the homosexual lifestyle for a long time,” saying that he “had good conversations about, about […]

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Howard Dean Alert!

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Howard Dean Alert!

The Amazing Dr. Dean will be at the Philadelphia Free Library this coming Thursday at NOON. He is speaking to promote his new book — Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Health Care Reform.

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Michael Steele Is A Genius…

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…Or not With that in mind, it’s hardly a surprise that the White House hopes that Paterson decides not to run next year. What is a surprise is that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele apparently wants voters to think President Obama doesn’t like black people. Michael Steele said it was “curious” on why the […]

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More Like This Please!

Filed in National by on September 21, 2009 6 Comments

Fox News has apparently been whinging that President Obama did not appear with them in the WH blitz to appear on all of the talking heads shows this Sunday morning. Why would that be? Here is the WH spokesman answering that to ABC news:

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