Annual job creation was higher under the Clinton tax rates: Now, that doesn't mean there's a direct correlation between tax rates and job creation. Clearly, though, job creation won't necessarily be...
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Applebee’s Sucks Anyway
Over the weekend, I posted a Sulia item about Papa John's CEO John Schnatter and how he intends to cut back hours for employees in order to get around the Obamacare requirement that all full time...
Refueling the Outrage Cortex
I'm taking a few days off from my usual daily column. I love writing a longer-form piece every day, and I'm eternally grateful to The Daily Banter for making it possible, but after a tumultuous...
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A Silent Film - "Danny, Dakota & the Wishing Well"
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Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah" It's been a hell of a week. Here's to you and all you've accomplished.
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MST3K Saturday - "Cheating" Refueling from a very long election year. I'll be back around midday or so.
Admitting to Extramarital Affair, Petraeus Quits CIA
Just in: Gen. David Petraeus has resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, MSNBC reports. MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell broke the news Friday afternoon, reading Petraeus’ resignation...
‘The Conservative Entertainment Complex’
David Frum has been hit-or-miss recently, but this is exactly right. The problem with the Republican leaders is that they’re cowards, not that they’re fundamentally mistaken. The real locus of the...
Pat Robertson Asks Female Co-Host About Porn
Here's a priceless and awkward exchange between Pat Robertson and his co-host about 50 Shades of Grey. What is "pornogrity?"
The Shocking Incompetence of the Republican GOTV Effort
Some of this post is wonky but it illustrates how the Republicans completely screwed the pooch on their get-out-the-vote effort. The upshot: So, the end result was that 30,000+ of the most active and...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag Loves Schadenfreude
This week's questions for me, Chez and Ben: 1) I know you've talked about this before but given the beating the Republicans took on Tuesday do you think ANYTHING will change in the GOP? Will they...
President Gets Emotional During Remarks to Volunteers
You might've seen this last night when it began to go viral, but just in case, here's the video of the president addressing his Chicago campaign volunteers. The whole thing is wonderful, but the...
Unskewed Dean Chambers Blames Me for Nate Silver Attack
This was a bit of a shocker. Several weeks ago, Dean Chambers famously attacked Nate Silver in an Examiner.com article: Nate Silver is a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a...
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Romney’s Bogus Deep Throat
This is hilarious. Romney tried push a "Benghazi-Gate" Deep Throat government source at Bob Woodward. Yes, really. "Some people close to Romney, a couple of weeks ago, just showed up at my house and...
Republican Tokenism
George Will thinks Marco Rubio will solve the party's problems. "During the Republican nominating process, the party turned first to one person and then to another to try and avoid what turned out to...
Election Post Mortem and Some Tough Love
My Thursday column... There's been an understandable amount of discussion since Tuesday night about how the Republicans failed and what they can do to improve. I love a good concern-trolling post as...
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Foo Fighters - "Times Like These"
Chart of the Day
Via Steve Benen: It's also worth noting that Catholics went for Obama 50-48, according to CNN, and Latino Catholics, in particular, supported the president by a margin of 3-1. On that note... As an...
Bill O’Reilly’s Racist Tirade
Stormfront might have a new spokesman. Or the same spokesman with renewed anger and hatred. “The white establishment is now the minority,” he added. “The voters, many of them, feel this economic...

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