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Palin doesn't understand First Amendment
To put it succinctly: the press can't violate Palin's First Amendment rights. If the government were to criminalize her speech, that would be a violation. But what the press is doing in criticizing Palin is exercising the First Amendment. Palin doesn't ... |
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Paying for sterilization
Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo announced on Tuesday that he is "studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied." Seriously. Because he's worried that "people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly ... |
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Mississippi’s Ballot Trick
Defying state law, they have decided to hide a hard-fought race for the United States Senate at the bottom of the ballot, where they clearly are hoping some voters will overlook it. Their proposed design is not only illegal. It shows a deep contempt for ... |
Sep 12, 2008 |
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VPilf.com
The word of the day is VPilf. |
Sep 2, 2008 |
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Tasteless
More on the story here. Talking Points Memo | Republican Outreach I didn't think the Texas GOP could sink lower than those phony purple heart band-aids they handed out in 2004. Boy was I wrong. And there are still five months left. |
Jun 17, 2008 |
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U.S. to launch criminal probe of CIA tapes
The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it will launch a criminal investigation intothe CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.From Talking Points Memo | U.S. to launch criminal probe of CIA tapes ... |
Jan 7, 2008 |
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A Vast Right-Wing Hypocrisy
Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire bankroller of conservative crusades, spent heavily to expose Bill Clinton's "Troopergate" misbehavior. Now Scaife's divorce from his second wife, Ritchie, is providing another unsavory saga...adultery! addiction! ... |
Jan 2, 2008 |
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The collapse of Karl Rove
A month ago, a friend who has spent his entire career working for the Republican House leadership pulled up beside me at the intersection of Seventh and Pennsylvania in Washington. A House institutionalist, and a fiercely partisan secular Republican, he ... |
Aug 17, 2007 |
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The three stooges
Omertà (or a code of silence) has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together. Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law. Protecting higher-ups is patriotism. Stonewalling is idealism. Telling ... |
Aug 2, 2007 |
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Giuliani Offers Health Care Plan
Critical to Giuliani's plan is a $15,000 tax deduction for families to buy private health insurance, instead of getting insurance through employers. Any leftover funds could be rolled over year-to-year for medical expenses. From Giuliani Offers Health ... |
Aug 2, 2007 |
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Subpoenas Sent to White House on Wiretapping
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the ... |
Jun 27, 2007 |
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real conservative
The great fraud being perpetrated in our political discourse is the concerted attempt by movement conservatives, now that the Bush presidency lay irreversibly in ruins, to repudiate George Bush by claiming that he is not, and never has been, a "real ... |
Jun 6, 2007 |
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Rudy on the Dems
Look, it's real simple what happened. These people came here and killed us because of our freedom of religion, because of our freedom for women, because they hate us...If you're confused about this, I think you put our country in much greater jeopardy. ... |
May 17, 2007 |
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Those 11 GOP "moderates"
Every one of the 11 GOP "moderates" who privately warned Bush that the public wants out of the war actually voted against the House bill tying war funding to progress in Iraq. From Talking Points Memo Maybe I'm too much of a cynic. I can't help but ... |
May 11, 2007 |
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Bob Barr explains the conservative crack-up
So the conservative movement in recent years has suffered from allowing itself to become captured by the Republican Party, and it has lost, in many respects, its independence, the power that comes from being a true independent, principled movement, the ... |
Apr 4, 2007 |
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Greenwald on Brooks
David Brooks' column in The New York Times this morning contains several important observations. It would maximize clarity in our political discussions if journalists could just ingest Brooks' central point: the dominant right-wing political movement in ... |
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Yet another GOP gay sex scandel
Several bloggers were posting pictures of me and Coulter together and noting, gleefully, that the guy with his arm around the waist of the woman who called Edwards a faggot had, once upon a time, acted in adult films. Some of the sites were comparing ... |
Mar 8, 2007 |
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The 40-year-old secondary virgin
For the past 40 years, the conservative movement has welcomed only one kind of person: the true believer. Iconoclasm in the pursuit of moderation was no virtue; orthodoxy in the name of conservatism was no vice. But this weekend, Grover Norquist—the ... |
Mar 1, 2007 |
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Republican Aide Tries to Hire Hackers
A sample from the conversation: 'Jericho: First, let's be clear. You are soliciting me to break the law and hack into a computer across state lines. That is a federal offense and multiple felonies. Obviously I can't trust anyone and everyone that mails ... |
Dec 22, 2006 |
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wing nut spin
I have two words for the wing-nuts that are claiming that America Rolls Over To Al-Qaeda or that Olberman and Bin Laden Are Celebrating: Please continue. If the election shows us anything it is that linking a democratic victory to a victory for the ... |
Nov 8, 2006 |