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  • Glenn Beck is a Mob Boss

    Rule of Law? I guess it's another of those quaint ideas we don't really need anymore.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 25, 2009, 1:13pm EST

  • Wednesday News Bucket and Recipe Swap

    Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.  - Anne Frank And for anyone who needs a recipe for something at the last minute, here are the links to the Thanksgiving Recipe Swap we did in the cafe in 2005: Turkey and Stuffing Recipes Dessert Recipes [...]
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    Fetched: November 25, 2009, 1:13pm EST

  • Serious Question

    Who's the craziest elected official in the country? I don't mean someone who pretends to be crazy. I mean the most delusional.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • I Report, You Decide

    Next president: Sarah Palin or Lou Dobbs? [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    Something that doesn't get discussed enough is how the "Free World" was able to exploit Communism's official atheism and make it a liability in the Cold War. This was true in Poland, but it was really, really true in Afghanistan. We talk about the blowback we created in funding the' [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • On Frank Gaffney

    If Frank Gaffney had been born into some Native American tribe, its women would have shamed him and its men probably would have killed him for questioning their courage and instigating needless wars with their neighbors that he was unwilling to fight himself. The Keyboard Commando is a modern social [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 12:20pm EST

  • Hate the Sin ...

    I am always angry when I see stories like this one, because it reminds me what a hypocritical society we really are: Last June, 76-year-old Burrell E. Mohler Sr. seemed a perfectly reasonable choice to give the Father's Day sermon at his tiny Bates City Community of Christ Church. After [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 12:20pm EST

  • Ronald 3:16

    Do you believe it happened like this? And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 11:51pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    I'm waiting for the Catholic Bishops to ask every congressperson who supports the death penalty for the 9/11 plotters to resign from Congress in order to save their soul. Seriously. I'm waiting for them to do that since they are asking that of pro-choice Democrats. I'm not Catholic, but I'm [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 9:19pm EST

  • Books

    What books would you want for Christmas? What books are you thinking of buying for someone else for Christmas? You can buy them from Powell's in the sidebar. Unlike Amazon, Powell's doesn't give money to Republicans.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • Serious Question

    Steve Benen gives us something to think about: Put it this way: imagine there's a big meeting with every member of the Democratic caucus in both chambers. You stand at the front of the room and make a presentation: "If health care reform falls apart after having come this far," [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • Finally Learning from 9/11

    My first indication that our country was not responding well to the 9/11 attacks came when Bill Maher was fired from ABC for questioning whether 'cowards' was an apt description for people who willingly fly jet airliners into buildings. I didn't remember the History Channel ever describing kamikaze pilots as' [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 8:49am EST

  • Things That Don't Happen in America...

    ...because we never do anything wrong: Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by the lack of preparation [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 12:16am EST

  • Sad Announcement

    I have some sad news to report. Longtime Frog Ponder, billjpa, died unexpectedly on Thursday. His daughter dropped me an email to let me know and to tell me how much Bill had enjoyed the site. I always enjoyed Bill's passion. He was always up on the latest outrage and [...]
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    Fetched: November 23, 2009, 12:16am EST

  • Casual Observation

    I don't know, maybe if you represent a state from the Old Confederacy you shouldn't repeatedly refer to Medicaid as a medical ghetto. It just sounds a bit racist. Don't you think?' [...]
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    Fetched: November 22, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • In a Bit of a Jam

    Joe Lieberman was so busy in 2007-8 shilling for Republican presidential candidate John McSame that he didn't notice that the three leading Democratic contenders (Clinton, Edwards, and Obama) all had health care white papers that included a public option. Or, so he claims. And, anyway, he's against having one in' [...]
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    Fetched: November 22, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

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    Fetched: November 22, 2009, 5:46am EST

  • Senate Votes for Cloture on HCR

    The Senate passed their health care reform cloture vote, 60-39. Republican George Voinovich did not vote. Max Baucus was forced to fly in from Montana where he is tending to his ailing mother and Robert Byrd was wheeled in in a wheelchair. No Republicans voted for cloture. No members of [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 9:20pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    Mary Landrieu will vote to let the health care bill proceed tonight, but she is blackmailing us by insisting that the public option have a trigger. Chuck Schumer is supposedly responsible for working out some kind of compromise. As I said before, it would have been better to put the [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 7:21pm EST

  • Crazy Republicans

    What's the deal with the Republicans' obsession with rape? Is that normal?' [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 1:20pm EST

  • Activist Judges, Bars & Guns

    Ah, here's a story which is a perfect convergence of those crazy gun control advocates and activist judges infecting their sinister anti-founding fathers memes into the minds of ordinary Americans in order to defeat our precious 2nd Amendment Rights. And in Tennessee forgawdssakes! Is nothing sacred! A Davidson County judge' [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 10:49am EST

  • Kerosene Blanche

    We'll have a day of annoying speeches in the Senate and then sometime around 8pm we'll have a vote on cloture/motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill. The only remaining questions are whether Max Baucus can make it back from Montana for the vote (his mother is [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 10:49am EST

  • Be Classy, Chuck Grassley

    You know what would be classy? Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is in Montana caring for his ailing mother. That seems important to me. I think Max should stay in Montana for as long as he feels it is necessary. I think the Ranking Member of [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 3:17am EST

  • Are You Ready for the Health Care Debate?

    I generally agree with Jay Cost's analysis on where the health care bill stands right now. His analysis also supports what I've been saying about the general strategy of maintaining momentum by postponing the toughest votes as long as possible. It looks very likely that Harry Reid will get unanimity' [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 9:14pm EST

  • Wingnut of the Day

    You might be a wingnut if you vote against a bill to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to baby because HIV-positive babies are a good way to teach mothers about the dangers of promiscuity. Making the following Tweet just confirms your wingnut status: "Don't for a'" [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 5:50pm EST

  • Selling Reform

    If I can leap ahead a bit here, in anticipation of Harry Reid actually passing health care reform (something that is far from assured), the Democrats are going to have to defend their votes for this bill, while the Republicans will have to defend their votes against it. Because a [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Shorter Richard Burr, NC Senator (R)

    They should have shot Khalid Sheik Mohammed execution style in the back of his head and dumped his body in a canal and spared us all the national security risks posed by Article III and the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution. [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Something to Remember

    The Republican governors got together in some god-forsaken place called Lost Pines, Texas, to discuss their collective futures and the prospects for winning more state houses in the November 2010 elections. Adam Nagourney was there, and he wrote about it. AdNags was most impressed by the lack of emphasis on [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Tom Coburn Told To Shove It

    Senator Tom Coburn made a big fuss (stink) the other day when he threatened to read the entire health care reform bill on the floor of the Senate, a process that likely would have taken 34 hours of valuable debate time on health care reform for little if any purpose [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 8:47am EST

  • Serious Question

    Any women want to chime in on these recent recommendations that women wait longer to do mammograms and check for cervical cancer? [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 5:20am EST

  • Serious Question

    Did you see this shit? It doesn't get much weirder. I wonder if people were unknowingly riding their Lithuanian horses in the ring around the secret CIA prison. And 'prefabricated pods' sounds like something out of Star Trek.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 10:18pm EST

  • U.S. East: Open Discussion

    New Hampshire: Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, the author of an amendment to the House health care bill that would ban federal funding from being used for abortions, has become a whipping boy of fellow Democrats on the campaign trail of late. New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes, who is running [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 3:46pm EST

  • Serious Question

    If you had to give President Obama a letter grade for his overall performance so far, what would it be? [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 3:46pm EST

  • U.S. South: Open Discussion

    Florida: Buffeted by weeks of negative press and a newly threatening rival from the right, FL Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) campaign will step up direct engagements with his opponent, insiders tell OnCall. Crist will attack former FL House Speaker Marco Rubio (R), citing his rival's failure to advance some conservative [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 3:46pm EST

  • U.S. West: Open Discussion

    Washington: The Senate Commerce Committee added its approval this morning to the Local Community Radio Act, passing the bill on a unanimous voice vote. The measure, introduced by Senator Maria Cantwell, would allow thousands of new Low Power FM radio stations to launch across the country. With the House companion [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 3:46pm EST

  • Economy is going to get much worse

    I think the economy is pretty darn awful, but with record profits on Wall Street and all the happy talk about a recovery from the recession (albeit a jobless recovery) it's confusing for many people as to what our economic future really holds. Well, here's relevant statistic that sums it [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 10:46am EST

  • Today in Health Care

    You have probably heard by now that yesterday afternoon Harry Reid invited Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln to a meeting in his office. From what I can divine, Reid likes to use subtlety more than a heavy hand. In response to a question from TPMDC Nelson told reporters [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 10:46am EST

  • Serious Questions

    If you are reading this, you are probably not a terrorist or a prospective terrorist. Most likely, there is nothing that would lead you to carry out an act of terrorism. But, ask yourself something. What might make you at least consider blowing up a truck-bomb or strapping on a [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 9:43pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    Okay, this is the stupidest damn decision. Luckily, no one will get killed as a result. [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 9:43pm EST

  • Conservative Cowards

    Have you ever met a genuine New Yorker? I don't mean the type that went to elite private schools and lives in a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side. I mean the kind of New Yorker who grew up in a tough neighborhood, went to public schools, has a' [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 2:14pm EST

  • Hate Crimes Laws Harm Christians? Bull!

    There is a group which has seen a 25% rise in hate crimes against them in Florida, 17% which involve violent physical assaults. This might surprise some of my counterparts on the Right, but the group which is incurring these vicious attacks is not the one they would suspect. That's' [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 9:12am EST

  • Casual Observation

    I miss Joe the Plumber. [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 2:47am EST

  • Status on Health Care Reform

    While it's not a totally done deal yet, it's beginning to look like Harry Reid will have unanimity in the Democratic Caucus for introducing the health care bill. If true, this would mean that one of the biggest hurdles will have been cleared. Ultimately, Reid is going to have reach [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 2:47am EST

  • Docs from Afghanistan

    The National Security Archive has a large document dump on U.S.-Taliban relations and intelligence reports from the Clinton administration. It's worth wading through if you want to learn more about the challenges we're facing right now in Afghanistan. This excerpt is from the end: As a collection, the documents reproduced' [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 7:46pm EST

  • Questions for Nate Silver

    When a prognosticator as good as Nate Silver bets money that, not only will Sarah Palin run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, but that she will win it, you have to take that seriously. In the linked piece, Nate discusses the reasons that he thinks Palin will [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 6:16pm EST

  • It's the Jobs and Food, Stupid

    The "economy" isn't what its all about. Stock prices can rise, Goldman Sachs can give out bonuses galore, productivity can shoot through the roof, but until we start getting people back their jobs -- good paying jobs -- we are headed to Nowheresville. And for millions of people that means' [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 2:50pm EST

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 2:50pm EST

  • Coburn's Stupid Stunt

    You may have seen a senator on CSPAN ask for unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of a bill and consider the bill as read. The key term there is 'unanimous consent.' Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma intends to deny his consent for this on the health care bill. [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 2:50pm EST

  • You Can Get Paid for That?

    You could pay me $8 million not to appear on CNN. CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned. "They wanted him out," according to a source. But I'd be happy with just a small donation. It's [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 11:12pm EST

  • Idiotic Republican Talking Points

    Rudy Guiliani is not alone among the right in lamenting that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize-winning change of tone is a setback for all those who believe our country is in a war with Islam. But, isn't that impression exactly what led this nutjob in Texas to resist his deployment' [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 11:12pm EST

  • The Palin Image is a Fraud

    Sarah Palin appears almost stunned that the Associated Press got a pre-release copy of her book and fact-checked it. "We've heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, 'fact checking' research!" Palin continued. "Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book,'" [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 9:17am EST

  • Abstinence Only Epically Fails

    Jesus must hate America, because under George Bush he allowed Christians ideologues and con artists to promote and profit from abstinence only sex education. A policy they counted on on to stop teenage sex hasn't stopped sexual behavior by young people. All it's done is increase the rate of sexually' [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 9:17am EST

  • Move Gitmo to Illinois

    Obama wants to move the inmates currently housed in Guantanamo Bay to Illinois. He's got the support of the governor and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. The plan is to buy an unoccupied state prison in a rural part of the state and turn it into a federal facility. Unfortunately, [...]
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    Fetched: November 15, 2009, 8:49pm EST

  • On Broder

    I wonder if anyone can pinpoint the moment when David Broder became a Republican hack. That was definitely not my original impression of him. He was always somewhat reserved in his advocacy, but he tended to advocate for things like greater health care access. I think most people were under [...]
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    Fetched: November 15, 2009, 6:44pm EST

  • On Civility

    The Washington Post wastes more opinion space by allowing Kathleen Parker to pontificate on the relative popularity of civility. Apparently, we're no more uncivil than any other generation of Americans, but bloggers and social media make us seem so. What we need are more debate teams in our high schools.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 15, 2009, 2:49pm EST

  • Can You Say Depleted Uranium?

    Doctors are calling for an investigation into an unprecedented number of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. The war-ravaged population center has seen an increase of up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants since pre-war levels, according to a report by the UK's Guardian. Documented statistics for birth [...]
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    Fetched: November 15, 2009, 2:49pm EST

  • If You Elect Me to Congress...

    Hey, I promise that if you elect me to Congress that I won't ever take language from any lobbyist and use it on the House floor or enter it into the Congressional Record. I can think and speak for myself. In fact, I don't see much reason to accept advice [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 10:49pm EST

  • Quote of the Day

    Why not just call them bedwetters, Jerry? "I invite any of my colleagues who say that they are afraid to bring detainees into the United States to face trial to come to New York and see how we handle them." - Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Ground Zero) Crazy Steve King (R-Iowa) [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 9:44pm EST

  • Learn the Lessons of Vietnam

    While working as Hau Nghia province representative for USAID in 1965, retired Lt. Col. John Paul Vann wrote the following letter to General Robert York: If it were not for the fact that Vietnam is but a pawn in the larger East-West confrontation, and that our presence here is essential [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 5:46pm EST

  • More of Cheney's 9/11 Lies Exposed

    I know this is probably not a great surprise to many of us who were never Bush worshipers, but a new book by John Farmer, The Ground Truth, offers further proof that President Cheney lied about the events of 9/11 and that the FAA and NORAD altered critical documentary evidence [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 3:16pm EST

  • WSJ Editorial Staff: Bedwetters

    I thought the WSJ might be different. Maybe they would be strong and full of courage like the city they work in. Nope. They saved it for the very end, but they wet their bed anyway. Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 11:46am EST

  • Palin's Stupid Book

    Sarah Palin's stupid book isn't even on store shelves yet and it is already getting torn apart by the Associated Press as a load of bullcrap. But, what did you expect? The woman doesn't even have a passing acquaintance with the truth, which became obvious when the first thing out [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 6:18pm EST

  • NRO Bedwetters

    The main reason that supporters of Bush's anti-terror policies are wetting their pajamas is pretty clear from a look at National Review Online: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • Bedwetters

    I am waiting for all the bedwetters who live nowhere near New York City to start crying about how dangerous it is to put al-Qaeda suspects on trial in New York. Also, it is so unfair to put people on trial rather than just endlessly detaining them with no due [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • Doing the Right Thing With the 9/11 Plotters

    Attorney General Eric Holder will announce today that the five suspects most closely tied to the September 11th attacks will be moved to New York City and tried in civilian courts. The suspects include: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 11:18am EST

  • Serious Question

    If a Lanny Davis stops writing a column for the Moonie Times, does it make any noise? [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 11:18am EST

  • Casual Observation

    It seems the last places on earth that the Cold War still exists is in the minds of right wing tea baggers and North Korea's government. Both groups see the US Government as their enemy. I wonder why that is?* * That's a rhetorical question, so feel free to answer [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 11:18am EST

  • On Afghanistan, Can We Talk?

    I don't think Hamid Karzai is a terrible guy. I just think he's incapable of governing Afghanistan. What I don't understand is why we would think we can succeed where he has failed. He gets his hands dirty trying, because you have to get your hands dirty if you want [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 9:46pm EST

  • FUBAR in Afghanistan

    Or is the right acronym SNAFU? I'll let you decide after you read this: Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US' [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 7:45pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    The river they are crying is as big as the Mississippi. [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 6:19pm EST

  • The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 6

    (The sixth in of a series of seven.) Nothing in Common If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words is true, then a couple of images might sum up the debate of over health care reform, and prove representative of the opposing sides. [Via Preemptive Karma.] [Via [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • What is Driving the Polls?

    I don't put a lot of trust or faith in polls this far out from an election, but Democrats cannot be comforted by a spate of recent polls that show them losing ground to the Republicans. The results from Gallup are most troubling. A Gallup poll released today gives the' [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • Wolf Blitzer Hates US Constitution

    What other conclusion can one draw from Wolf Blitzer's behavior on air attacking the attorney retained by Major Hasan's family to defend him, than that he, a prominent CNN Anchor, doesn't believe that a person accused of a crime by the Government deserves due process of law? Watch, please, what' [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 9:19am EST

  • Obama, Vietnam, and Afghanistan

    I've spent a good part of the last week re-reading Neil Sheehan's book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Partly, this is just happenstance; I found a nicely annotated hardback copy in a local used book store. But it's also because I wanted to look' [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 9:19am EST

  • Lou Dobbs Resigning Immediately from CNN

    Don't let the puerta hit you on the nalgas on the way out, Lou! Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, plans to announce Wednesday that he is leaving the network, two network employees said. A CNN executive confirmed that Mr.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 10:42pm EST

  • Why Stop at Muslim Internment?

    You know Michelle Malkin is fond of suggesting internment of Muslim Americans -- for their own good, of course -- would be the right thing to do. After all, it worked out so well when we did it in WWII to the Japanese American population (but not the German or [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 6:43pm EST

  • What is Up With the Moonies

    Chaos and armed guards at the Moonie Times. Has anyone done a really intense examination of the Unification Church's role in the Republican Party? Anything available online? Why does such a lame cult own the Washington Times? Even if no one buys it, the product still winds up on Fox [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 6:43pm EST

  • Quote of the Day

    It's from Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly speaking to Ralph Peters (a man who never shirked his duty of demanding that others sacrifice their lives and souls to satisfy his lust for blood): "Let me play devil's advocate here. Barack Obama wants to win hearts and minds in the Middle'" [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 6:43pm EST

  • Casual Observation

    As a purely political matter, jobs before climate change is a no-brainer. [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 6:43pm EST

  • Forcible Rapes

    What is the difference between rape and forcible rape? That's a question Bart Stupak wants you to know the answer to before you go trying to abort a pregnancy that has resulted from rape. He also wants your insurance company to ask you and your doctor whether your rape was [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 6:43pm EST

  • Dodd Releases Plan for Financial Overhaul

    As politicians go, I have a relatively high opinion of both House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank and Senate Banking chair Chris Dodd. If I were to go looking for two people to oversee the regulation of Wall Street, I'd be hard-pressed to find too many people I trust more' [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 12:48am EST

  • Obama's Speaks; Wingnuts Attack

    After listening to the speech President Obama gave at Ft. Hood on on You Tube (part 1, part 2 and part 3) I was impressed by his dignity and grace. The speech was a good one, not great, but his demeanor was all you could expect from a Commander-in-Chief addressing [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 7:47pm EST

  • Serious Questions

    President Obama is headed for the Far East. I've never been there. If I went, I think I'd go to Cambodia, Vietnam, and the beaches in Thailand. Have you been? Where would you go? [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 7:47pm EST

  • Silly Ezra

    I don't know the internal politics at the Washington Post, so I don't know if Ezra Klein will pay any price for contradicting Fred Hiatt. But I do know that Ezra is kind of silly to attempt to take Hiatt's idiotic arguments in good faith. [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 2:50pm EST

  • HCR is Getting Dicey

    It's encouraging that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs threatened to use the budget reconciliation process if the health care bill stalls in the Senate. Other than a brief burst of optimism I had after Senator Paul Kirk was seated as Kennedy's replacement, I have never believed that Obama could pass a [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 12:46pm EST

  • Bill Clinton to Give Senate Pep Talk

    TPMDC reports that the Senate Democratic Caucus is having lunch with former president Bill Clinton today to discuss health care reform. It could be like asking Bob Shrum to run your presidential campaign, or it could be a valuable wake-up call of what it's like to lose power in Congress [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 10:47am EST

  • Not the Worst GOP Scandal Ever

    This story about prominent Idaho political figure and Republican National Committee member Blake Hall and his conviction for stalking his former girlfriend is pretty disturbing, nonetheless, especially from the "ewww!" factor alone: Blake Hall, a leading figure in Idaho and national politics for 25 years, was fired Monday as a [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 10:47am EST

  • Open Thread

    It's like Michael Steele thinks the white people can't hear him because he's on black radio. No word on whether he brought his fried chicken and potato salad.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 5:45pm EST

  • Violating People's Grief

    One thing gets lost when we focus only on the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy. And that is that pregnancies terminate themselves all the time. And, when they do, there is frequently a problem that the remnants of that pregnancy do not expel themselves fully or adequately. [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 3:16pm EST

  • The Threat of Governing from This Center

    The problem of not having a rational alternative party to the Democrats became obvious in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. In July, the FBI, in a widespread money laundering and corruption investigation, arrested dozens of people in New Jersey, including (mostly) Democratic politicians. The incumbent Democratic governor, Jon Corzine, was [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 1:21pm EST

  • This Will Now Get Very Big

    ABC News reports: U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 10:15am EST

  • A Small Slice of Conservative Sanity

    For years I've wondered why climate change became a political issue, with conservatives jumping on the denialist propaganda offered up with gusto by the fossil fuel industry funded disinformation campaign. One conclusion I've been able to get my hands around is that many, many conservatives are also conservative Christians with [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 7:46am EST

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 7:46am EST

  • Something Less Annoying

    Have you seen Al Franken draw the United States from memory? That performance has inspired a contest: It's good to see a little uplifting, humorous news from Alaska's Senate delegation. According to Politico's "Click," in an effort to encourage American students to pay more attention to geography, National Geographic magazine [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 11:17pm EST

  • What If...

    Can you imagine what would have happened to Howard Dean if he had tried to pull this when he was chairman of the DNC? Last week, Republican National Committee Michael Steele warned GOP members of Congress that they will face tough consequences if they vote in favor of the health [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 7:16pm EST

  • Hasan Was Al Qaeda Terrorist!

    Major Nidal Hasan was part of an Al Qaeda sleeper cell with the 9/11 hijackers. I know, I know, that's not what the liberal mainstream media and Obama lackeys are claiming, but fotunately for us right wing bloggers are on the case, and they have definitive proof that Hasan was [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 1:45pm EST

  • HCR is Still a Toss-Up

    The way Joe Lieberman is talking, he's not leaving himself any room to support the Senate bill if it includes a public option. He's locking himself in as an opponent. WALLACE: So at this point, I take it, you’re a “no” vote in the Senate? LIEBERMAN: If the public option [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 1:45pm EST

  • Disappointed

    I'm disappointed that President Obama's actions in office has been closer to those of former President Clinton and, with respect to our civil liberties, often closer to former President Bush, than to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I'm disappointed Harry Reid is the weakest, most pathetic political leader I've seen' [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 11:45am EST

  • House Passes Health Care Reform

    Some people wonder why I am not a fan of Dennis Kucinich and don't take comfort when I look along the trench and find him fighting by my side or, especially, carrying my banner. Well, he voted against health care reform tonight. He can provide any reasons he wants, but' [...]
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    Fetched: November 08, 2009, 1:44am EST

  • Casual Observation

    I never thought I'd be feeling ambivalent about the House passing health care reform. I knew I'd have big problems with the bill. I didn't know I'd actually hate it this much. It's a good thing the Democrats have Republicans to make them look good by comparison. They'll have to [...]
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    Fetched: November 07, 2009, 5:14pm EST
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