Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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Big Shock: Fox News Lies
Has Faux News finally gone too far for the media to ignore? (Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.) Fox took out ads in the Washington Post, New York Times andWall Street Journal accusing the media (including WaPo, NYT, CNN and others) of not covering the Fox-organized and Fox-promoted 9/12 protest in Washington. Rick Sanchez begs to […]
Whose Values?
Talking Points Memo looks at the schedule for the Value Voters Summit and finds these breakout sessions: “Speechless – Silencing The Christians” “Thugocracy – Fighting the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” “Defunding Planned Parenthood” “Activism and Conservatism: Fit to a Tea (Party)” “The Threat of Illegal Immigration” “Obamacare: Rationing Your Life Away” “Marriage: Why It’s Worth […]
Friday Open Thread
Put your brain droppings here. My WTF of the day: Bill O’Reilly supports the public option?
Massachusetts To Have A New Senator Next Week?
The efforts to change the law in Massachusetts to allow appointment of an interim senator are moving quickly now. State policymakers were reluctant to act, until Kennedy’s passing made the matter extremely relevant, not only to the state, but to national affairs. Yesterday, the Massachusetts state House took a step towards remedying the problem. House […]
The Public Is Smarter Than Republicans Think
Greg Sargent at Plumline finds some data in a Bloomberg poll that suggests that most Americans know that the Republican health-care reform opponents are just trying to scare people. Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health care […]
Thursday Open Thread
It’s open thread time – let’s throw the floor open. Put your comments, links and topics on your mind right here. Let me do a follow-up to yesterday’s Open Thread discussion. The judge issued a judgment in the birther case from yesterday, and was quite critical of Ms. Taitz. He called her case frivolous and […]
School Board Forced To Apologize
I came upon this story on Daily Kos. A school board in California had a hastily called meeting to ban the showing of Obama’s school speech in classrooms. Community members fought back and forced the school board members to apologize at a school board meeting: The board meeting opened tonight with Halgren and Duff again […]
Rumor Patrol: Beau Biden Will Run For Senate
FWIW, here’s the latest rumor from Political Wire. Delaware Attorney Gen. Beau Biden (D) is expected to return from his National Guard duty in Iraq at the end of the month, reports WBOC-TV. The big decision awaiting him is whether he’ll run for the U.S. Senate vacated by his father. “Barred from politics while on […]
Late Night Video: Hammer Time
Here’s a preview of Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. I know you can’t wait.
A Conservative Calls Out Other Conservatives For Race-Baiting
So, is a backlash finally starting to happen? Rod Dreher, a conservative columnist, has called out Rush Limbaugh for his inflammatory rhetoric. But first, a little background. Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh discussed a story about a white student beaten on a school bus by a black student, blaming it on President Obama: Rush Limbaugh weighed in […]
Wednesday Open Thread
Discuss away! I’ll throw out another conversation starter – Birther Queen Orly Taitz is in the news again. This time she’s trying to stop another deployment (someone who got the U.S. government to pay for their medical school and now wants to get out of their commitment). Anyway, Taitz comes off as completely clueless, especially […]
Women Rule!
Politico has the scoop on a new study coming out of Stanford and the University of Chicago showing that in general, women lawmakers are better legislators than their male counterparts. Effectiveness was judged by the number of bills introduced, the number of co-sponsors for those bills (probably an indication of the popularity of the bill) […]
Tuesday Open Thread
Get your discussion on right here. Let me add some food for thought. Two posts just appeared about the new rise of Ayn Rand: Sociopathy on the Right: Ayn Rand and the Triumph of Conservative Cultism No Compassion Do you all think this may have something to do with the outbreak of extreme rudeness we’ve […]
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