ATLANTA — In the late 1920s, the Republicans crowed about how their policies had put a “chicken in every pot.”
The White House this week is dispatching Vice President Biden to southern Appalachia - the historic backdrop for economic hardship - to update that slogan to “a broadband [...]
Well, if TBag says so; after all, if there's anyone that should know Ponzi Schemes, it's Tim "I'm the unalloterer!" Pawlenty - shown here' [...]
In New Hampshire Wednesday, Tim Pawlenty said things like “monstrosity being jammed down our throats” (to describe health care reform), “Ponzi scheme on the Potomac” (to describe federal spending), and “red-hot smoking” (to describe his wife, Mary). People in the Granite State returned the favor, [...]
Collin Peterson has responded to a post that MDE yesterday that highlighted several news stories about his potential retirement. Now Don Davis, from Forum Communications, has written a follow up story.
From Don Davis with Forum Communications:
Western Minnesotans should not believe rumors that U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson is not [...]
In addition to the letter sent to the state campaign finance board noted earlier, we've learned the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party also sent letters to the campaigns (which included the campaign finance letter) today. It mentions potential disciplinary action, appearing to be an attempt to set the record straight and' [...]
In an earlier post, MDE linked to a story from MPR about internal strife over a DFL database file. This situation could also potentially turn into a campaign finance violation. MPR says Kelliher contacted the DFL to start raising money for her campaign for Governor:
Kelliher wasn’t available to comment [...]
Potentially. There's a lot more at Watts Up With That? It's a long piece but very much worth your time. The very short version of this chart: The blue numbers are the raw data. The red numbers are the "homogenized" data following the addition [...] Obama has tried to portray his family as Christians. I have serious doubts about where his true loyalties lies and there is pots of evidence to support my suspicions. Most Christian Americans love Christmas. I know Easter is the more important holiday to the church, but Americans fucking love Christmas. [...]
Another crunch week at work, so blogging may be spotty this week until I begin my extended Christmas vacation next week. (I have a bunch of vacation days to use up.)
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Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, December 4.
1. Jane Hamsher points to a new Mason-Dixon poll indicating that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails two potential GOP opponents. This doesn't make Hamsher particularly sad, to put it mildly, given that she' [...]
Last night I ventured out to catch some boys’ hockey action for the first time this season and, as usual, their was plenty of action and the parking spots were as rare as a 50-degree day in December.
I began in Anoka, where the Tornadoes carried a vast majority of the [...]
Climategate is all the rage and well deserves to be. Scientific fraud on a scale unseen in our lifetimes. MC hasn't posted on it because of wall to wall coverage on other blogs and some media. Sunspots, however, receive less coverage but ought not to. True,' [...] Captain’s Log, Stardate, oh, wait, that’s pajama boy stuff.
I was at my usual spot at the bar in Quark’s Place when Quark came up with my first round of Guinness with a tribble sweat chaser. He looked like he wanted to tell me something pretty badly.
“Okay, Quark, spill it. What’s [...]
A mind-boggling usurpation of moral authority at the highest global level is set to unfold at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that begins in Copenhagen next Monday. MORE »Byline The McGill Report By: Douglas [...]
