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And the Oscar Goes to The Daily Banter Mail Bag
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) If nobody likes the sequester why was it ever proposed, why is it being fought over now, and couldn’t someone come up with a better word for...
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Foo Fighters – “Learn to Fly” Live on Letterman I’m flying back to the east coast in advance of the new media panel at Eastern Tennessee State University. Wednesday night, 6 p...
Super Stupid
Fox News doof, Lisa Daftari, thinks Al Jazeera America will activate sleeper cells. DAFTARI: …They’re apparently expanding to eight cities, including Detroit, Michigan. Detroit, Michigan...
Reality Check for Chris Christie Fanboys
Christie clocked in this week with a 74 percent approval rating, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Pretty great, yes? Don’t unzip your pants just yet. Rudy Giuliani held a 79 percent approval...
Scientists Create Zombie Cells
Yes, really. Biological researchers have created dead ‘zombie’ cells in the lab which outperform living cells. Seriously. A team at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New...
Go, Farmer Bowman!
Fingers crossed on this one. Finally, a farmer has dragged Monsanto into the Supreme Court — unafraid of the corporate giant’s farmer-crushing practices: On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme...
Republicans Are Dominating State Politics, Destroying Science
My Thursday column: Many of us are enjoying our post-election schadenfreude, observing as the Republican Party increasingly marginalizes itself, demographically and politically, and scrambles to cut...
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Quote of the Morning
“Like most men, I’m more opposed to violence against women than even violence against men. Because most men can handle it a little better than a lot of women can.” Rep. Jimmy Duncan...
Dumbest Pizza Shop Ever
Are you effing kidding me? A Virginia Beach pizza shop owner is showing his support for firearm rights by giving gun owners a 15 percent discount. The discount is given to anyone who brings a gun or...
Three Dead, Along with Gunman in California Shooting Spree
Yesterday: A gunman on a shooting rampage in southern California killed three people on Tuesday in an attack at a home and three carjackings, before killing himself with a shotgun as officers closed...
Voters Shout at McCain Over Immigration at Town Hall
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Republicans Literally Fire Back at Powerful Missouri Gun Control Bill
My Wednesday column and another example of how all politics is state and local: You’ve probably never heard of Missouri state Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University City). Last week, Ellinger...
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States’ Rights. Except for Obamacare.
Here’s the latest map showing which states are allowing the federal government to set up health insurance exchanges: Interesting how many of the states’ rights red states letting big...
Uh. What?
Anti-abortion Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R): “When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That’s a big thing. That’s a big...
The Beginning of the School Arms Race
It begins with $30 million for armed police officers in schools: Freshman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and six other House Republicans have proposed legislation that would spend $30 million a year on...
American Racism’s Greatest Ally: The Republican Party
My Tuesday column and some familiar territory: In a relative sense the American Civil War wasn’t that long ago. Soon after I was born, my parents took me to visit my great grandfather, Charles...