Archive for June, 2010

President Obama Doesn’t Care About White People

Filed in National by on June 15, 2010 41 Comments

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “…the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race — on the side that favors the black person.”

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Another Tale Of GOP Minority Outreach

Filed in National by on June 14, 2010 4 Comments

Welcome to the North American DMZ: The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary. Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing so. Mullins says border security […]

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Historians Agree: Bush Sucked

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Historians Agree: Bush Sucked

98% of historians informally surveyed by the HNN rated Bush’s presidency as a failure. 61% rated it Bush as the worst president with an additional 35% rating him in the bottom 10.

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Monday Open Thread

Filed in National by on June 14, 2010 25 Comments

The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Constitution Smonstitution

Filed in National by on June 14, 2010 10 Comments

Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they’re on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona – and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution – to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely […]

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Oh Great, A Reason To Stay In Afghanistan

Filed in International by on June 14, 2010 5 Comments

Afghanistan has a $1T deposit of industrially important minerals, like lithium, copper, gold, iron and cobalt according to a just-released Pentagon study.

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Weekend Open Thread

Filed in National by on June 12, 2010 46 Comments

The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Don’t Tease The Panther

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Don’t Tease The Panther

Media Matters has a preview of Glenn Beck’s new hilariously awful novel The Overton Window. Rule #1 is don’t tease the panther.

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TARP Bailouts Make a Profit.

Filed in National by on June 11, 2010 23 Comments

All the taxpayer money spent to bailout the banks has been repaid, and based on the interest we were charging them, we are making a profit (or a surplus) of at least $23 billion.

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Friday Open Thread

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The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Competence over Soundbites: Our Meeting with State Treasurer Jones-Potter

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Competence over Soundbites: Our Meeting with State Treasurer Jones-Potter

Last evening, Nemski, Cassandra and I met with State Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter. I am sure my colleagues will offer their opinions of the meeting as well, but I wanted to offer my take. I was impressed with her, and also the simplicity of her message. LiberalGeek has met Chip Flowers and is impressed with him and his plan to remake the Treasurer’s office. It looks like the primary for the Democratic nomination features two able and bright candidates with two different visions of the office and what it can and should do.

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Beyond Parody

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So Soccer, or European or Global Football (as opposed to American football), is now apparently an super duper evil horrible destructive LIBERAL socialist plot to take over America, except of course we liberals have already taken over America, what with our devious democratic elections and what not, so of course now Soccer is an super duper evil horrible destructive LIBERAL socialist plot to destroy America.

No, this is not from the Onion.

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I Guess Christine O’Donnell Is Still Running

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Hey, whadda you know, Christine O’Donnell is still running for Senate.

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