Monthly Archives: August 2012

Rove: Don’t forget to vote white


From The Raw Story: Republican strategist Karl Rove says that part of Mitt Romney’s plan to win the White House has to include getting “white Democrats” not to vote for President Barack Obama. During a discussion with Politico’s Mike Allen … Continue reading

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Outburst by Ron Paul fans does not compute


It didn’t get much mainstream media play compared to Ann Romney’s kitsch-y speech, but I’ll bet the chanting was almost disorderly enough to fry the Romneybot’s hard drive: Delegates were finding their seats on the floor of the Republican National … Continue reading

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Who will call Romney on his lies? Not the MSN


Here’s Robert Reich again, almost sputtering with indignation regarding Mitt Romney’s incessant lying on the campaign trail: …So Romney’s lying machine is working. But what does all this tell us about the man who is running this lying machine? (Or … Continue reading

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Jobless means invisible


The two-party system as it now exists is a fraud perpetrated by high-priced office-holding whores who feel it’s safe to ignore the millions of Americans who most need a healthy, functional, job-creating federal government. From Huffington Post:” The share of … Continue reading

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Ex-NRP reporter owns up to ‘colluding’


Newsflash: Reporting on Congress is like participating in the theater of the absurd. So why wait until you’re no longer covering D.C. to give us your honest opinion of the job? From Truthdig: Andrea Seabrook left NPR this summer to … Continue reading

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Lawsuit against ‘ACORN pimp’ to proceed


James O’Keefe is what the Yes Men would be like if the latter were bigoted and had no social conscience: A federal judge last week allowed a lawsuit against conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hanna Giles to proceed, according to … Continue reading

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Crazy love


Bloody your hands on a cactus tree Wipe ’em on your dress and send it to me “Cactus” is by Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis, of the Pixies. Bowie’s studio version of the song is on his album Heathen.

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Have you no sense of decency, sir…?


Frank Rich defends Harry Reid against illustrious Republicans Ann Coulter and RNC Chairman Reince “What Planet Am I From” Priebus: Last week, Harry Reid claimed on the Senate floor that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid any taxes for ten years. The … Continue reading

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Tune in with your new assault rifle


One can only wonder who would have ended up owning this mail-order killing machine, and what he would have done with it. Taken it to the movies, maybe: Police in Washington are looking into how a local resident who ordered … Continue reading

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Texas executes retarded man after Scalia rejects stay


Recently, the good old boys who oversee the prison system in cruel and unusual Texas made the news in connection with the heat-related deaths of ten inmates. Yesterday, the boys were back in the news, this time for executing a … Continue reading

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