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Overreacting to ACORN

By liberalgeek September 18, 200975 Comments

I am a little disturbed by the latest round of ACORN bashing in Washington this week. After a pair of conservative actors staged their own sting operation to see if…

Massachusetts To Have A New Senator Next Week?

By Unstable Isotope September 18, 200913 Comments

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…

Calling Them Out on Their Lies

By cassandra_m September 18, 200928 Comments

President Obama made a point of this promise in his speech to the Congress and it looks like it starts now:

Late Night Video — The Definitive 9/12 Video

By cassandra_m September 17, 20092 Comments

Lifestyles of the White and Gullible, indeed...a word of advice -- put down all liquids before watching. The English-only guy is especially fun. But so is the lady on Social Security who wants the government out of her life.

Health Insurance’s War Against Women

By pandora September 17, 200927 Comments

And children. I'm really looking forward to hearing social conservatives defend this... “The point of insurance is to insure against catastrophic care costs. That’s what you’re trying to aggregate and…

The Public Is Smarter Than Republicans Think

By Unstable Isotope September 17, 20092 Comments

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,…

Longing For The Days Of The Child Bride

By pandora September 17, 200913 Comments

Michael Gerson's Washington Post's Lost In A World Without Courtship article is silly and shallow. It also completely ignores one of the major factors determining when people decide to marry. …

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope September 17, 200919 Comments

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…

(Neck-)Breaking News: Rasslin’ Invades the Political Arena!

By El Somnambulo September 17, 200922 Comments

Both locally (oh, yeah, I've got pictures) and nationally! This is so cool that I'm fighting the urge to lapse back into the Third Person to tell this story. You…

School Board Forced To Apologize

By Unstable Isotope September 17, 20091 Comment

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…

Castle and Biden to Play Chicken?

By liberalgeek September 17, 20092 Comments

Senate Guru has a nice post up about some of the potential gamesmanship between Beau Biden and Michael Castle in the next month or so. Beau is due back this…

Rumor Patrol: Beau Biden Will Run For Senate

By Unstable Isotope September 17, 20099 Comments

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…

Late Night Video: Hammer Time

By Unstable Isotope September 16, 20094 Comments

Here's a preview of Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. I know you can't wait.