Archive for December, 2010
High Hopes and Not Enough Votes
How long will Tea Partiers allow their new Congress to steep before getting impatient and rambunctious?
Progressive Uprising?
A full 78% of Democrats want to see President Obama re-nominated, including 85% of liberal Democrats. At this time in 1994, Clinton’s re-elect number among Democrats was 59%.
Oberly Sworn In as US Attorney
Former Attorney General for Delaware Charles Oberly was sworn in as the US Attorney for the District of Delaware
The New Birthers
There is a new pseudo-scandal brewing in the rightwing. The RWNJs think that President Obama will “give away” Manhattan because he signed the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Best Laid Plans Could Bring Cleaner Air
The New Republic explains that the Environmental Protection Agency would have broken the law if they did stood around and did nothing.
PolitiFact’s most-read fact-checks of 2010
PolitiFact.com revealed today the top ten most-read fact-checks of 2010, and they overwhelmingly confirm one thing we already know: Republicans are filthy liars. Six out of the top ten were Republican statements, and all of them were rated “False” or “Pants on Fire”. Out of the four Democratic statements, two were true, one was “Barely […]
LNV: Captain Beefheart
Late Night Video: Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart passed away early this month.
Readings for Tuesday Evening
Cozy up to your laptop or iPad and enjoy Tuesday night’s interesting reads
It’s Palin Hunting Season
As the GOP is wont to do, they’ve have begun turning on their own. Obama’s 14 point lead over Teapubican Sarah Palin must be scaring them.
Fearing for Science
If you forget about those that died on Deepwater Horizon, then you might think it was a cool explosion like the future chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. Oh yeah, that climate warming stuff, scientific fraud.
Palate Cleanser – A Delightful Rant
Josh Marshall at TPM takes apart the idea that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was ever a serious presidential contender.
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