Today: Nearly eight years after he denounced what he called a "dumb war" in Iraq and nearly two years after he won the White House promising to end it, President Obama on Monday plans to mark the...
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Blockhead - "The Music Scene" Directimated by A.F.Schepperd Awesome Hall of Fame Nominee
Alan Greenspan Opposes Bush Tax Cuts…
...Unless they're paid for. "I'm very much in favor of tax cuts but not with borrowed money and the problem that we have gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts...
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
Palin on Fox News Sunday: "[Obama's] commitment to let previous tax cuts expire are going to lead to even fewer job opportunities for Americans," Palin said. "It's idiotic to think about increasing...
Then Again, Racism On Camera, Too
This teabagger video is astonishingly racist. "You have declared war on the white man in America. Putting the wants and needs of the moochers, leeches, looters and criminals ahead of the producers."...
Not Racist — On Camera, That Is
Via reader Andrew, this report from California reveals the two-faced, Eddie Haskell nature of tea party people. When the cameras are rolling, they deny the racial component to their protests and...
Pence-Bot is a Spending Machine
Self-declared "fiscal hawk" Mike Pence wants to continue spending $560 million a year on a military jet engine that no one, including the tea party and the Pentagon, wants. Why? Rolls Royce, the...
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Van Halen - "5150" (Live in Japan, 1989)
Smart Accountability
Jon Cohn posted a fantastic item this week about "liberal apathy" and this section jumped off the screen: To be clear, sometimes ass-kicking is good. Call Kent Conrad a hypocrite on the deficit...
Birth of a Nation
Joan Walsh via Digby: Fox News has, sadly, become the purveyor of a 50-state "Southern strategy," the plan perfected by Richard Nixon to use race to scare Southern Democrats into becoming Republicans...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy"
Circulate This Graph Everywhere
The Wall Street Journal compares the 2011 income tax burden with and without the Bush tax cuts. It turns out that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will only hurt people earning more than $300,000...
The Ed Show
I'll be on The Ed Show on MSNBC sometime around 6:30 EDT to talk about how the Republicans are screwing the middle class and the economy. UPDATE: Video courtesy Heather at C&L: I'm Very Serious...
Gingrich Wants More War
The Axis of Evil crap was a terrible idea when George W. Bush was doing it. Newt evidently thinks it's a great idea to continue milking it -- and calling for more attacks. Former Speaker of the House...
Homer Simpson is Destroying American Families
Or so says Glenn Beck. Yes, really. Listen carefully to this. Glenn Beck says men are the "shlubs" now and that the roles are "reversed." In other words, women should be the shlubs and men should be...
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Elvis mentioned this on the podcast yesterday and it's really worth repeating: The Council on American-Islamic relations has condemned plans for a Tea Party protest outside a southern California...
Pity Party for Monsanto
Awwwwww. BOCA RATON, Fla., Jul 29, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the...
Go Anthony Weiner!
Rep. Weiner totally rips into the Republicans for obstructing a healthcare bill for 9/11 heroes. What he said. You don't eff with New York.
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The Peter Serafinowicz Show - "Butterfield Direct"
Worst Persons
Time Magazine for this: The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated? 92 million gallons of oil. People and animals are bleeding from the anus due to the dispersants. Exaggeration? Remember back...