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Category Archives: Politics
Lightning Round: The Road to Recovery is Forever Under Construction
Marta Evry at Firedoglake and Ezra Klein both agree that President Obama’s recent public option diss in the Washington Post defies much of his earlier rhetoric from the campaign trail. But Evry is convinced that the public option is more valuable as an oracle — or maybe catharsis — for progressive activists than it ever was as a reform mechanism. Haters often quip that Beltway bloggers lack perspective. Why is that? Continue reading
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FOX & Friends Falsify Climate Change Poll
Media Matters picked up on a curious bit of research featured on Fox & Friends yesterday. The segment cited a Rasmussen survey from early December that asked respondents: “In order to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming, how likely is it that some scientists have falsified research data?” Continue reading
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Ex-GOP Aide Leaks Earlier ‘Purity Test’ Draft
Yesterday, Reid Wilson first eyed the final draft of a GOP “purity test” proposal now being circulated at the Republican National Committee. A former, disgruntled RNC communications official leaked an earlier draft of Bopp’s proposal to Air America early this morning. Continue reading
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Democrats Should Make The Republicans Filibuster To Win On Health Care Reform
Imagine yourself as an initially disinterested observer of the current health care debate. Now imagine Jim DeMint droning for several hours on your television about how we are all creeping toward a world without freedom or cheap Reagan memorabilia. Continue reading
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How The GOP Quagmire Gave Birth To Sarah Palin
From desperation and irrelevance, the GOP beckoned for a bold, fresh piece of something. They got the governor of Alaska. Continue reading
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Hatred beyond expletives
A Louisiana justice of the peace recently refused to marry an interracial couple because they are an interracial couple. That’s pretty messed up. I don’t have much else to add to what the blogosphere has already said about this; my point in bringing it up is simply that a public official denying a black man and a white woman the right to marry each other stands out as a example of racism in modern America. Continue reading
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