Archive for February 8th, 2011

PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Fails House Vote

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The PATRIOT Act renewal was blocked in the House. Twenty-six Reoublicans (including 8 GOP freshman) voted against reauthorization.

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Holy Bleep! The Two Stephens, Sondheim & Colbert, Together At Last!

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How cool is this? My all-time favorite composer, Stephen Sondheim, is gonna have a NYC revival of his groundbreaking musical, Company, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone and…Stephen Colbert! “Company” was the first Broadway show I ever saw on Broadway, in 1972. I was just blown away and have been a lifelong Sondheim fan ever […]

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Bring It.

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Before she sleeps in a cot in a federal prison for the next decade, Christine O’Donnell proposes to investigate me and my colleagues at Delaware Liberal and other groups that she believes are “funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros.” Unlike Ms. O’Donnell, I and my colleagues have not received untold millions from ideological benefactors.

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Tuesday Open Thread

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The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Olbermann’s New Gig

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Keith Olbermann and Current TV have announced that Keith Olbermann is joining and will have a primetime show on the channel. Keith Olbermann announced on Tuesday that he will host a one-hour, nightly primetime show on Current TV starting in late spring. He will also become the “chief news officer” for Current. In a conference […]

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The Markell Budget: Comfort the Comfortable, Afflict the Afflicted

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As the Joint Finance Committee peels back more layers of this rancid budgetary onion, we see the priorities of this administration, and what we see is an ostensibly progressive administration time and time again comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.

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Politco Acknowledges That The Left’s Media Criticism Is Right

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Politico admits that the Left’s media criticism has been correct all along. The media isn’t liberal, it practices high Broderism.

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