In the Personal Health column in today’s NY Times, Jane Brody writes about stopping to congratulate a young mother who was chatting to her toddler while walking along the streets of New York City recently. Brody commented that seeing this interaction between mother and barely verbal daughter was a rare [...]
The Census Bureau reports that 15% of South Carolina residents are not covered by health insurance. The latest shocking report on the state of health care in South Carolina adds a sense of urgency to the need for strong political leadership in these troubled times. Unfortunately the current white male [...]
Why is this not a surprise? The states with the strongest conservative religious beliefs also tend to have the highest rates of teen pregnancies and births. This according to a new paper forthcoming in Reproductive Health.
I posted a blog on a similar story a while back about [...]
Hey teabaggers, wise up your leader, Freedom Works founder Dick Armey is picking your pockets while you wave those picket signs…
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It’s a vast and fertile land. Soybeans and corn grow in this soil.
Wheat and tobacco. A little sorghum. It’s not dramatic terrain
with ocean waves crashing against the cliffs. It’s mostly gently
rolling plains. Long stretches of prairie. You know you’ve entered
it when [...]
The World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems
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Thousands of Americans [...]
There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world, maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s because the GOP has run amok but whatever is happening the world is topsy turvey. Do yourself a favor and click on the link and enjoy Jon Stewart’s take on the scare tactics [...]
More distrubing news about the rate of suicides in all branches of the military. When Republican’s like Walter Jones begin to demand an end to war and beg forgiveness for voting for sending troops to war, you know the tide has turned.
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The Republican Party has a Southern problem:It’s been largely pushed out of other regions, and has become dominated by Southerners who are pushing the party even further to the right in what’s become a downward spiral. Normally, Republicans can’t say this, but one of the party’s senators is taking advantage [...]
Once inj a while I read something that I desperately wish I had written. Today I was forwarded this link to a blog I wasn’t familar with [margaretandhelen.wordpress.com] after I finished applauding and laughing I added it to my favorites list.
Wow, these are some very funny and refreshingly [...]
Click on this link to learn more about Sanford’s connection to C Street residence and to view some incredible video of his news conference at the Greer DMV. Good Stuff!
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When Apollo landed on the moon in July 1969, I watched from the living room of my Aunt Helen’s house, amazed and proud. Even as we celebrate the memories of that day, 40 years ago this week, there are people who don’t believe that crew of the Apollo; Buzz Aldrin, Michael [...]
After four days of being AWOL, The State reports South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s office says he’s been located:
Sanford’s office told the lieutenant governor’s office Monday afternoon that Sanford has [...]
A CNN poll released yesterday found that former Secretary of State Colin Powell is more popular thanVice President Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. While 70 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Powell, Cheney and Limbaugh are only viewed favorably by 37 percent and 30 percent, respectively. Even Republicans [...]
Do yourself a favor and click on this link and watch former Governor Jesse Ventura destroy Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s Republican talking points defending torture. Ventura underwent torture techniques including waterboarding as part of his naval training.Enjoy.
Jesse puts the smackdown on Sean “The Bully” Hannity
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As a transplant to South Carolina I’ve often wondered why there seemed to be such hostility and lack of support for public education in this state. Public schools would seem to be the rock bed of any state’s future and financial and political support would seem to be a no [...]
The timely blog Teablogging has revealed its sources:
According to documents obtained by Teablogging by running a goddamned simple Nexis search on the internets, national Tea Party organizer, Top Conservatives on Twitter cofounder and TCOTReport.com publisher Michael P. Leahy has, over the past 16 years, amassed nearly $150,000 in state [...]
RADICAL RIGHT — LIMBAUGH MOCKS RECESSION DURING SPEECH TO WEALTHY RIGHT-WING DONORS: On Monday night, Rush Limbaugh came to Washington, D.C. to address the President’s Club Dinner, a meeting of wealthy donors and supporters of the conservative Heritage Foundation. The audience included Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and Sen. [...]
I was going to write a blog about how the GOP seems determined to snuff out their future and ensure that they remain ideologically pure even if it means their extinction but CNN’s Jack Cafferty got their first. Enjoy!
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[...]Remember Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the Dillon, S.C., girl who asked Congress for stimulus funds to rehab her dilapidated middle school? I thought she was an inspiration for America; wingnuts at the Washington Times thought she was “irresponsible” for asking government to solve her problems.
Now her governor, Mark [...]
Caught red handed using GOP talking points, Fox caves with apology…for typo
Published Wed, Feb 11, 2009 2:24pm ET by Karl Frisch
Yesterday, Media Matters noted:
In purporting to “take a look back” at how the economic recovery plan “grew, and grew, and grew,” Fox News’ Jon Scott referenced [...]
Paul Krugman presents the most effective and articulate defense of the Democrats economic policy, destroying the myth of GOP fiscal restraint.
Watch this!
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Under the Bush administration, the federal government has put over $176 million into funding abstinence-only sex education programs, a component of which is [...]
It’s Christmas Eve but the greatest gift of all is still 26 days away…that’s Bush’s last day. Waiting for the Bush presidency to come to a close has been like the end of an abusive marriage, torturous and seemingly never ending. Instead of quietly exiting leaving behind financial havoc and [...]
In a Pew survey released today, “just 11% said Bush will be remembered as an outstanding or above average president,” which is “by far [...]
ADMINISTRATION — CHENEY: IT ‘WOULD HAVE BEEN IMMORAL’ FOR US NOT TO TORTURE:Earlier this week, Vice President Cheney admitted to personally authorizing the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees. In a new interview with the Washington Times, Cheney stridently defended the program, saying, “I feel very good [...]
WOMEN’S RIGHTS — PAY GAP DEPRIVES WOMEN OF $434,000 IN LIFETIME EARNINGS:
A new Center for American Progress Action Fund report by Jessica Arons finds that the career pay gap — the difference between the median wages of full-time working men and women over a 40 year period — [...]
This Thanksgiving, progressives have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s our list:
We’re thankful we’ll soon have a president who will hit the ground running instead of a president who is running the country into the ground.
We’re thankful that Keith Olbermann and [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what Maya Angelou said recently, “We are more alike than we are different.” She talked about how even when people are divided politically, racially and or socially, we are alike in our desire for safety, security, health and happiness. We all want our children [...]
“The Dow isn’t the only thing that’s dropped in the current economic crisis,” reports the USA Today. According to a new Gallup Poll, President Bush’s job approval rating has “fallen to a record low” of 25 percent. That’s only one point higher than Richard Nixon’s approval rating of [...]
Click here to watch Jon Stewart’s take on the hilarious flip flops of Karl Rove and other GOP operatives on behalf of their new girl, Sarah Palin….
John McCain has claimed that he believes “there is a special place in hell” for Tucker Eskew and the others who were behind the push-poll that implanted the idea in S.C. voters’ minds in 2000 that he had fathered an illegitimate black child, but that sure didn’t stop [...]
ECONOMY — WORKERS WORSE OFF ON PAY, EMPLOYMENT: A Rutgers University labor scorecard reported that workers are “in worse shape than they’ve been in years,” with 10 percent of Americans “unemployed, discouraged from seeking work or underemployed.” Median weekly earnings have not grown in real terms over the last [...]
“The vice president is a heartbeat away from becoming president, so to choose someone with not one hour’s worth of experience on national issues is a dangerous choice.
“If John McCain thought that choosing Sarah Palin would attract Hillary Clinton voters, he is badly mistaken. [...]
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O’Reilly, Hannity and Savage preferred reading for Jim D. Adkisson Posted: 30 Jul 2008 09:00 PM CDT Are you surprised that the TN Church shooter’s reading material consisted of our favorite Conservatives?
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