This was all over Twitter yesterday but for the record, ThinkProgress reports: Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, secretly helped guide Komen...
Komen Advised by Ari Fleischer
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Mitt Romney Just Makes Stuff Up
Here's Mitt Romney yesterday with a doozy. "You know, we're the only people that put our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem." Not true. Very not true. Buzzfeed presents a...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent"
The Komen Handgun
This is the weirdest thing I've see all day. Yes, that's a Breast Cancer Awareness handgun. Discount Gun Sales has teamed up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to offer a pink version of its popular...
Koman Walks Back Planned Parenthood Decision
This is moving in a very positive direction, and if they end up doing a complete reversal, it will be a huge victory for women, Planned Parenthood and activism. We want to apologize to the American...
Quote of the Week
"One is a practicing polygamist, and he's not even the Mormon." Sandra Day O'Connor on Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney Brilliant. Nobody likes Newt Gingrich.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Some positive news on the jobs front: According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy created 243,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent...
Psychotic Wingnut Painting
Via Maddowblog: Kind of reminds me of this hilarious piece. Adding... Is that Madison trying to grab President Obama's ass? Also, anyone who thinks Lincoln had anything in common with the modern...
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U2 - "Mysterious Ways" (My internets were down. Blast!)
Worst Persons in the World
I'm very late with this worst person post, but the Komen organization for cutting off breast cancer funding to Planned Parenthood. The latest via John Cole: But three sources with direct knowledge of...
Gingrich Asked Paterno About Assistant Coaches
Yes, assistant coaches. Holy hell. (via Sullivan)
Slave Tells Former Master to Suck It
This is fascinating. Historians discovered this 1864 letter from a former slave to his former master. Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir:...
"The Lesser of Two Evils" & Why Progressives Lose
[My latest for The Huffington Post] There comes a time during just about every general election cycle when a faction of progressive Democratic voters begin to harrumph and gripe about the two party...
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Jane's Addiction - "Underground" (via Chez)
Rick Santorum Bad Lip-Reading
This might be as funny as the Ron Paul episode. Barftastic.
Healthcare Reform is Working
Harold Pollack and Greg Anrig at the Washington Monthly on the president's healthcare reform success: [S]urprising even to many advocates of health care reform, evidence is emerging that the ACA is...
It's Cold in Alaska and Al Gore is Fat
Sarah Palin on her Facebook (ugh): A friend emailed me this notice from her local Alaskan school today. As the school notice makes clear: anything above -55 degrees below zero is warm enough for our...
Game Changer or Whatever It's Called
The HBO movie based on Mark Halperin's unsourced, index-free book about the 2008 election has a new trailer. I'll probably watch it, but I probably won't like it for several reasons. 1) It's based on...
Florida is Where It Begins
Florida won't be remember so much for Romney's decisive victory, but how that victory was achieved. Romney's SuperPAC assault has enraged Gingrich and the real war is about to begin. Gingrich is a...
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Jack White - "Love Interruption" From his forthcoming Blunderbuss album.
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