"Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history." Mitt Romney Peacetime? And...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Haley Barbour Isn't Running
One less clown in the clown car. Awwww. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) announced on Monday that he will not seek the presidency in 2012, saying that his supporters "deserve no less than absolute...
The Latest from the Michigan Dictatorship
Rachel brings us the latest news from Benton Harbor and Catherine Ferguson Academy: So far, I'm unaware of any other major newscasts covering these developments in Michigan. Please continue to...
Republican Politics in One Sentence
This summarizes everything you need to know about the modern Republican Party: "Meat Loaf, should I run for president?" Donald Trump on his show The Republican Party: Silly, Self-Satirical, Unserious.
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The Hobbit - Set Diary #1 Can't. Wait.
Quote of the Day
"What is new here is that [Michigan] has decided that local elections, locally elected officials are a problem that has to be done away with, that democracy is in the way of fixing problems in the...
Birthers are Dumbstupids
The AP's Mark Neisse on the "long form" birth certificate and why the president is completely and totally unable to release it to the public: What the would-be sleuths won't find is Obama's "long...
Oh They're Totally Not Racist
Dropped randomly into this PPP poll (pdf) is the following line about Mississippi Republicans: 46% of these hardcore Republican voters believe interracial marriage should be illegal, while 40% think...
Fox News Is Not Embarassed, Continued…
Like me, you probably didn't watch the Hannity special exposing bias in media -- a concept similar to, say, Ronald McDonald hosting a special about the dangers of addictive fast food. But here's an...
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REM - "Oh My Heart" (Live at Hansa Studios, Berlin)
Worst Person in the World
Michigan State Senator Bruce Caswell for this: "Under a new budget proposal from State Sen. Bruce Casswell, children in the state’s foster care system would be allowed to purchase clothing only in...
Emergency Manager Can Steal Pensions
Fortunately, there's a lawsuit aiming to stop it. Detroit’s city pension systems — the General Retirement System of the City of Detroit and the Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of...
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Elvis Costello - "Pump it Up"
Ground Zero for American Politics
I'm so rarely floored by political news anymore. But last night the following segment of the Rachel Maddow Show floored me. I knew the Republicans were out of control with their budget cuts and...
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MST3K Saturday - "Are You Ready for Mortgage?"
Scrubbing a Lie from the Record
Jon Kyl lied about Planned Parenthood on the floor of the Senate. And now he's scrubbing the congressional record to remove the lie: The original statement from Kyl: "If you want an abortion you go...
Fox News Is Not Embarrassed
Fox News is airing a special report about media bias... hosted by Sean Hannity. I'm not making that up. "Double Standards...Groundless Attacks...Blatant Left Wing Bias!" These are the striking...
Quote of the Day
"Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political...
Permanent Fear
The new terror warning system maintains a perpetually elevated threat level. In fact, the lowest threat level is "elevated." • An elevated threat alert, the lowest warning, would be issued if a...
New Huffington Post Column
Why Are the Republicans Afraid of President Obama? One of the most often-overheard refrains from the Republican Party and its far-right base is that President Obama is the worst president in American...