“I think it’s a very bad thing for Cantor to have done,” Trump said, “because I’ll tell you, people love this issue especially in the Republican Party. And there’s something to what we’re saying.” – Donald Trump This is going to make the Tea Party Right and the 38% birther crowd that reportedly won’t vote [...]
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FAIRNESS: Investigate AARP, Then Investigate the NRA
Waaaaaaah—waaaaaaaaah–wah. The big bad AARP is beating us senseless with their huge numbers, so the Republican We’ll Show Them Report is out. And Republican allies have come up with a scary title for AARP to rev up the Right: “AARP is the Death Star of American entitlements.” Through AARP the Right hopes to do a [...]
Saving ‘Rawhide’
**UPDATED** It came very close for “Rawhide,” Pres. Reagan’s Secret Service code name. A remarkable report from CBS News adds to the history of this day. At 2:27 pm EST, thirty years ago today, Pres. Ronald Reagan was shot and critically wounded, though the American public didn’t know how grievously at the time. John Hinckley [...]
2nd Indiana Official Suggests Violence to Help Walker
This story is incredible and shows who is actually the thug in Wisconsin’s union battle: Republicans. An Indiana deputy prosecutor and Republican activist resigned Thursday after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism uncovered an email to Gov. Scott Walker in which he suggested a fake attack on the governor to discredit union protesters. Carlos F. [...]
Obama’s Sec. of Labor Crawls Out From Hiding
Perhaps Pres. Obama let Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis out for Women’s History Month. But Sec. Solis finally, at long last, after waiting around forever, has come out from her previously undisclosed location inside the Obama bubble to write a post over at HuffingtonPost. In hard times, we all understand the need for sacrifices. Scapegoating [...]
Sarah Palin Should Join Michael Bloomberg’s Illegal Gun Fight
cross-posted at The Moderate Voice But she won’t, nobody on the Right will, because their NRA streak seems to be wider than their civic conscience. Rachel Maddow covered this story last night, which caused quite a discussion in our house, as my husband is a gun expert and we are gun owners. This is an [...]
Arizona Shooting Victim Arrested for Death Threat Against Tucson Tea Party Co-Founder
“nobody was threatening Gabby.” – Tucson Tea Party co-founder, Trent Humphries (h/t Frank Rich) Oh, those wacky conservatives over at Tucker Carlson’s place. They just can’t help themselves. That Mr. Fuller’s violent rhetoric was spurred on by getting shot never enters the minds of Carlson & Co., which has resulted in his involuntary commitment to [...]
Is the Right Speechless Without Hate?
“…civility is censorship…” – Rush Limbaugh show, 1.13.11 (1:30 p.m. EST) It would be one thing if the quote above had simply come from Rush Limbaugh. It’s quite another for his listeners to confirm it, which is what happened yesterday on his show, with Limbaugh wholeheartedly agreeing, amidst a defensive onslaught of talk radio babble [...]
Giffords ‘All There,’ Made ‘V’ Sign with Her Hand
more at Huffington Post Keith Olberman tweets the best news of the day. Rep. Giffords is “definitely ‘there’,” her aide tells Brian Williams. She’s made “V” sign with her fingers, scratched her nose… Pres. Obama will speak tonight from Arizona; word out that he will talk about the victims and the heroes. Juxtaposed against this [...]
Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’ Inspires Breitbart to Invoke Gang Rape
–updated below– No one should be surprised that Andrew Breitbart would equate deserved criticism of former governor Sarah Palin with gang rape. This is the type of hate speech from the Right, especially towards women, that is common. Remember their depictions of Speaker Pelosi, Hillary Clinton before she became secretary of state? Unfortunately, the criticism [...]
Who Are You Going to Believe ‘Survey Symbols,’ or Your Lying Eyes?
Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times stated on “Daily Rundown” (see video) today that an “unofficial adviser” to Sarah Palin, also mentioning “supporters,” have told him that former Gov. Palin needs to speak out on the Arizona domestic terrorism tragedy. Not in a tweet or a Facebook post, but in an address. Now, “unofficial [...]
Call Me When a Lefty Takes a Gun to A Political Rally
The Right doesn’t like feeling the intense heat of the blow back. Case in point, Glenn Reynolds writing in the Wall Street Journal, who luckily gets a rhetorical lifeline from Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz: The critics were a bit short on particulars as to what that meant. Mrs. Palin has used some martial metaphors—”lock and [...]
Rep. Giffords: ‘We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list.’
–updated below– “At a time like this, it is terrible that we do have to think about politics, but no matter what the shooter’s motivations were, the left is going to blame this on the Tea Party movement,” Mr. Phillips, from Tea Party Nation, said on his Web site. “While we need to take a [...]
Dem Congresswoman Giffords, 6 Others Shot by Gunman in Arizona
Im sure this will be ont he front page here shortly but Dem Congresswoman Giffords has been shot along with 5 staffers at a public event. Cond. unkown. Oh this sounds so bad in so many ways.
Sarah Palin, Fake Annie Oakley
Among the basic items of protocol blithely ignored by Palin as she set off into the wilderness in a Rambo-style headband was her failure to take practice shots, or check the sights of the rifle, which duly turned out to be off-kilter. She failed to carry her own weapon, relying on her elderly father and [...]
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THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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