Brewer is really seriously awash in blood. Warning: what you're about to read will repulse you. Governor Jan Brewer is proposing to kick some 280,000 Arizonans, mostly childless adults, off the...
Jan Brewer Really Hates Sick, Poor People
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Author - Bob Cesca
Quote of the Day
A rare photographic Quote of the Day:Via LGF
Austerity In Europe Has Failed
Via Balloon Juice, it appears as if "sitting around the dinner table and tightening various belts" isn't working out so well in Germany and the UK: With its modest stimulus winding down, Germany’s...
Sarah Palin: Faker
Sarah evidently likes to play dress-'em-up makebelieve. First, the glasses are fake because she wants to "look smart." Sorry, it didn't work. Second, she's lurks as an anonymous comment troll and...
Worst Person in the World
Rush Limbaugh continues to own this category of posts. This time, he was critical of the First Lady's rib dinner in Vale, Colorado -- accusing her of hypocrisy, considering her healthy diet and Let's...
The Upside-Down World of Fat Jesus
Chris Christie in his budget address yesterday: And in Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives rich health and pension benefits, and...
Morning Awesome
Nirvana theme week continues with "Lithium"
Jon Stewart and 'Both Sides'
I'm so thrilled that Digby has been sticking it to Jon Stewart on his "both sides" meme. Again, I dig Stewart, but this bullshit about how both the left and the right are somehow analogous has to...
GOP Governors Get Big 'Obamacare' Grants
They're not embarrassed. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday issued more than $45 million in new grants to various states for the implementation of the president's health care law ...
Slash and Burn
The Republicans -- everywhere -- are out of their gourds. More so than usual. In New Hampshire: New Hampshire’s House is scheduled to vote this week whether to repeal a law requiring public schools...
Republican Amnesia
Robert Reich reminds us about Scott Walker's priorities for Wisconsin: Before Wisconsin’s budget went bust, Governor Walker signed $117 million in corporate tax breaks. Wisconsin’s immediate budge...
It's Raining Oil
NASA reports Gulf-based evaporation is creating "oil rain," which is precisely what you think it is. [T]hey showed up as if they had almost a millimeter of oil in the cloud. And these hydrocarbon...
Morning Awesome
Thought I'd do an impromptu Nirvana theme week. We began on Sunday with "In Bloom" and continue on with... Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
The Reality of a Shutdown
Benen notes the biggest difference between the shutdowns of the middle 1990s and now: Also note, the economy was much stronger in the mid-1990s than it is now. In 2011, we have a fragile recovery...
Great President, Or the Greatest President?
Gallup ought to be ashamed of this display of dumbstupid. It's their annual "Who's the Greatest President?" poll. See if anything jumps out at you here: George W. Bush higher up than Thomas Jefferson...
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The Animaniacs - "The Presidents"
Big Ocean of Oil
It's still there. WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't...
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Nirvana - "In Bloom"
Krugman Takes On Greenwald and FDL
CORRECTION: This is from January of 2010. I didn't look at the date and and discovered it because Greenwald was debating @OTOOLEFAN about it on Twitter earlier today. Nevertheless, it's worth...
Thanks So Much, Voters
We tried to warn you before the election, Republican voters: instead of legislating in the real world, the Republicans were going to play grabass, and eventually there'd be a government shutdown. And...