I haven't posted about ACORN a lot, but it's worth posting the following segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show. In case you missed it, those pimp videos turned out to be fakes. They were...
Where Are the Apologies?
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Author - Bob Cesca
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Joe Jackson - "Steppin' Out"
Final Thought on the Wikileaks Video
I tend to agree with Oliver Willis on that Wikileaks video. In the case of the Wikileaks video, Greenwald characterizes it as “the plainly unjustified killing of a group of unarmed men (with their...
Right-Wing Extremism Continued…
It continues... SEATTLE - Federal authorities have arrested a Selah, Washington man for threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray over her support for the health care bill. According to the U.S...
Worst Person
Newt Gingrich for repeating the debunked conspiracy theory about 16,000 new IRS agents being hired to enforce the healthcare reform mandate. Once again, non-partisan FactCheck.org writes: This wildly...
Bad News for Net Neutrality
Aw crap. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing...
That's All for Shuster
David Shuster has been indefinitely suspended from MSNBC for shooting a pilot for CNN. While, I really like Shuster (I especially enjoy doing my impression of his hyper-articulated anchor voice) it's...
Shocker: Drudge Lying About Nukes
Here's the banner headline at Drudge today: NO NUKES: EVEN IN SELF-DEFENSE! This implies that other nations can attack us with nuclear weapons and we're not allowed to respond proportionally -- which...
Super Bugs Courtesy of Monsanto
Pink bullworms win the contest. They're officially resistant to Monsanto's pest-killing genetically modified cotton known as "Bt." So... [Monsanto is] now advising farmers to buy a newer Bt variety...
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Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of Choice"
Decades of Blowback
Whether or not history defines Iraq as a "victory," there's one thing we can count on: decades of blowback and anti-American resentment because of incidents like this one: WARNING -- This is very...
The Palin Paradox
Sarah Palin's Fox News ratings are falling apart. More proof that conservatives only really like the idea of Sarah Palin more than the actual Sarah Palin. Or as Jed Lewison writes: The sharp viewer...
Stay Classy, Gun Show People
My wife and I drove down to Gettysburg yesterday and, along the way, we spotted the following billboard. I didn't have the foresight to take a picture of my own, but fortunately someone else did:...
Go Republican Obstruction!
Ryan Grim reports: Thanks to congressional inaction, more than 200,000 laid-off workers could lose access to unemployment benefits this week, and no flood insurance policies will be renewed or issued...
Quote of the Day
"The honest answer is yes." Michael Steele when asked if he has a slimmer margin for error because he's African American
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Red Letter Media's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Review! The rest of the parts after the jump...
Cycling with Parkinson's
This is truly amazing. Dr. Bastiaan R. Bloem of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands thought he had seen it all in his years of caring for patients with Parkinson’s...
More Like This, Please
President Obama on healthcare polls.
New WalletPop Column
Food fraud cases growing, as well as safety warnings Tweet and Digg often!
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Confused lamb can't find its owner. Happy Easter to our Christian friends.