Archive for 2010

This Can’t Be A Surprise, Can It?

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This Can’t Be A Surprise, Can It?

But nor can it be a surprise that Republicans are judging other people’s packages, can it?

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Oscars Open Thread

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Oscars Open Thread

Click through for my predictions

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State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal

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Last week, the News Journal published an article on the abuse of legislative perks by the GOP in the General Assembly. Among the revelations were that the GOP majority paid political consultants out of taxpayer funds, including one consultant who never showed up for work. Today in a letter to the editor, House Minority Leader […]

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Karl Rove Got Beat Up by a Little Girl

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It explains everything actually: According to his new memoir, a 9-year-old Rove affixed a Nixon sticker to his bicycle, prompting a leftist girl child to give him a bloody nose. We must find this girl and make her into a folk hero. The fable of Rove’s beat down at the hands of a little girl […]

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What Will Happen if Bin Laden is Captured?

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President Obama has already been far more successful in prosecuting the War on Terror in his first year than George W. Bush was in his entire 8 year term. And now Pakistani officials are reporting that the traitor Adam Gadahn has been captured in Pakistan. Gadahn, formerly Adam Pearlman of Oregon, is an American citizen. […]

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Kavips on NRA and the Public Housing Ban.

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The NRA must think that the oh so cleverly named and downright deceptive HB 357 will not pass as written, given the righteous reaction of Governor Markell, and the exposed lies of John Atkins and Joe Booth. You see, Atkins and Booth were selling the legislation as a simple Second Amendment issue allowing those living […]

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Ask Dr. Liberal

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This time, the good Doctor talks about ornamental grasses in Hockessin and Lady GaGa. God help us all.

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Weekend Open Thread

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Welcome to this beautiful weekend! My yard is now 100% snow free and it feels like springtime. I hope everyone is out and about enjoying the weather. Wolf Blitzer apologized for his “Department of Jihad?” chyron in the CNN broadcast: “CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism,” he said. “Lawyers […]

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The Ghost Whisperer

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DADT repeal has been a hot topic this year, and surprisingly uncontroversial. The repeal is supported by more than 70% of Americans. John McCain has become one of the leaders in Congress against DADT-repeal. At one point during the hearing, McCain showed a letter which he claimed had been retired military officers against the repeal. […]

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Never Underestimate the Capacity of the GOP to shoot itself in the foot..

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….with the younger generation. The vast majority of Americans under the age of 30 do not care one bit about conservative fearmongering concerning gay marriage and “special rights” for gays. Indeed, they support a wild notion that there should be equality for all. And just when you think the GOP was leaving the socially conservative wedge issues behind and embracing populism, Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) opened his bigoted mouth.

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Public Service Announcement — President Obama at Arcadia U on Monday

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You’ve heard that President Obama will be in the area on Monday morning to talk about health insurance reform and he’ll be speaking at Arcadia University. Tickets are required (free but required) and you get them this way:

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Late Night Video – I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

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Gay Men Still Cannot Give Blood.

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Back in the early 1980’s, the wonderous Reagan Administration, and society as a whole, did a bang up job in reacting to the AIDS outbreak. One of the reactionary responses was to prohibit gay men who had sex after 1977 from donating blood. Would it shock you to learn that that ban remains alive and well today, in the 21st century?

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