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Another Dumb Birther Argument

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics, Supreme Court

George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week called “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship.”  How anyone got past that atrocious title to actually read the thing is beyond me.  The article should more accurately be titled, “Every year someone makes the same argument about immigrant babies and [...]

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Lying to Make Friends Goes Undercover

December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

Lying To Make Friends ventured out into the world of the Teabaggers today to do some actual reporting.  Well, I’m not sure it qualifies as reporting when you’re too terrified to actually talk to anyone (other than the UNC fan who accosted me because of my Duke sweatshirt), but I did take pictures!

First, a nice [...]

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Republicans Have Issues With Metaphors, Bigger Issues With Reality

November 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports

The Republican health care protest on Capitol Hill yesterday can be summarized as follows:  Democrats= Everything Bad, Republicans=Everything Good. Depending on who at the rally you believe, Obama and his supporters are either Maoists or Nazis. And after being told for 8 years that Muslims (sorry, Islamofascists) are the scariest thing [...]

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Republicans Are In Bed With Utilities Lobbyists? (It’s Too Easy)

September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics

According to the LA Times:
An Orange County lawmaker [Mike Duvall] who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon.
The famously conservative Republican Assemblyman was just having a little pre-hearing banter about his sexual exploits with a couple of [...]

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On Not Giving the Squeaky Wheel the Grease

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

As noted in this post by Joan Walsh, President Obama’s health care town hall yesterday was so civil compared to other town halls that some have accused the White House of pre-screening participants to shut out dissent. In fact, participants were randomly chosen among those who applied for tickets online.
There is an [...]

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More Palin!

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Ross Douthat had a column in the NY Times this morning bemoaning the sexism and elitism motivating the media’s treatment of Sarah Palin. As Adam Serwer points out, this follows a pattern of conservatives suddenly caring about issues like sexism whenever a Republican is affected. (Bonus points for the Futurama reference).
This discussion demonstrates [...]

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No More Politics as Usual

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics

Before I got bored and couldn’t listen to any more of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, I’m pretty sure she said the phrase “no more politics as usual” at least half a dozen times. The only thing that kept me interested for a few minutes was trying to figure out what Alaskan animal was making the [...]

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Nwt Gngrch :)

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics, Technology

I genuinely enjoy me some Twitter, but I can not think of anything more boring and useless than following a politician 140 characters at a time. I figure if a politician does something interesting, I’ll hear about it elsewhere. And I don’t need to get indoctrinated with some political message written in all lowercase and [...]

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I Listen to Conservatives So You Don’t Have To

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Driving home from work, I foolishly thought I might be able to find hockey on the radio in LA. I did, however, stumble across some typically fantastic conservative talk radio. First, some clown named Lars had Ann Coulter on the show. I only caught the tail end of the interview, as they [...]

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