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Author - Bob Cesca
Super Stupid
Holy crap. Another Republican didn’t get the outreach memo. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) used an ethnic slur to describe Mexican farm workers in an interview with a local station KRBD on Thursday...
The First Drone Ever
Via Katrina vandenHuevel: The drones now snooping over Afghanistan have a longer history than you might think. In 1916, a military scientist conceived of an “aerial torpedo” designed to...
Quote of the Morning
“Drones should never be used for indiscriminate mass surveillance, and police should never use them unless there are legitimate grounds to believe they will collect evidence related to a...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag! DOMA! Matt Lauer! Ashley Judd!
This weeks questions below. Answers here. 1. It was a big week for marriage equality and gay rights. I think eventually there will be gay marriage on a national level but what do you think the...
Morning Awesome
Van Halen – “Jump” Dedicated to Chez Pazienza, who proclaimed himself to be the world’s biggest Diamond Dave fanboy on today’s After Party (forthcoming at Noon eastern)...
Quote of the Morning
“Any Christian who refuses to recognize that man wants to upend God’s order will have to be driven from the national conversation. They will be labeled bigots and ultimately...
Sarah Palin’s Latest Grifter Scheme
When she spoke at CPAC, she blasted away at political consultants, instructing them to run for office or step off. But now she appears to be offering up her own consulting services to Republican...
A Morning Bigotry Quiz
See if you can name which of the following statements was made about same-sex marriage, and which was made about interracial marriage. “They cannot possibly have any progeny, and such a fact...
Alex Jones’ Latest: Obama is the Leader of Al-Qaida
My Thursday column: Remember the days when there were three television networks, when you could fill up your gas tank for $15 and when Guy Fieri was just a homophobic, talentless, annoyingly...
Morning Awesome
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Around The World” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading...
Here’s a Crazy Idea: A ‘Constitutional’ Assault Weapons Ban
My Wednesday column begins like so: As evidenced by my post on Monday about pursuing gun control legislation at the state level due to the ineffectual and barely-there efforts of the congressional...
Worst Persons in the World
UPDATE: Yes, I know Ashby posted something about this yesterday, but I thought I'd weigh in, too, since I've been tracking the far-right's disgraceful bullying and stalking of political...
The Seven Worst Things Scalia Has Said About Marriage Equality
Adam Serwer has the list. Here are some highlights of the awfulness: “Flagpole Sitting” What’s a little frat-boy humor between justices? In 2003, during oral arguments in Lawrence v...
Trouble for Gun Control in the Senate
Yikes. A little-noticed Senate vote just before 4 in the morning on March 23 — amid the chamber’s 13-hour vote-a-rama on a fiscal 2014 budget resolution — suggests trouble for...
Obama Invokes the Antiquities Act
Great news from the White House on the historical preservation of national park land. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands–the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio Grande Del...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers – “Up In The Dark” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading...
Another Rand Paul Super-Awesome Filibuster That Greenwald Will Surely Support
I wonder how Greenwald feels about this: Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) “are threatening to filibuster gun-control legislation, according to a letter they plan to...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The same CPAC crew that thought black slaves should’ve been grateful for the food and shelter are going to be patrolling the Towson campus. At night. It’s not difficult to imagine racial...
Greenwald: ‘Drone Apologists’ and ‘Democratic Partisans’ Are Racists
My Tuesday column. Once again into the fray: Glenn Greenwald’s ongoing crusade against anyone who dares to see nuance in the debate over targeted killings and the war on terrorism has risen to...