Author - SK Ashby

Wingnuts

Every Day Is Opposite Day

Hot on the heels of Mitt Romney's suggestion that the real solution to the housing market is to have even more foreclosures, Herman Cain debuted his own ideas today. CAIN: I know people don’t like...

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Open Thread

Auditions

Artist - Dave Granlund In other news, Herman Cain is quote "very proud" of his relationship with the Koch Brothers and he thinks rape victims should be forced to carry their pregnancy to term. Cain's...

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Racism

Because You’re Blek

The results of this CNN poll are currently making their way around the intertubes. In general, do you hope that Barack Obama’s policies will succeed or do you hope that his policies will fail...

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Ethics

No More Socialism!

Except for Herman Cain – Agco Corporation received up to $5 million of stimulus grants to develop “supply systems to handle and deliver high tonnage biomass feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels...

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Epic Fail

Moment of Derp

What is Mitt Romney's solution to the continued decline of the housing market and the foreclosure epidemic? More foreclosures! “As to what to do for the housing industry specifically — and are there...

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Open Thread

Halloween Masks

Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, the Obama campaign announced today that the number of individuals who have donated to the campaign has reached one million.

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Taxes

It’s A Flat Tax!

If by flat you mean "zero," then yes. At least for billionaires like Warren Buffet. If the “9-9-9″ tax plan promoted by Herman Cain, a leading Republican presidential candidate, had been the law of...

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The Media

What Liberal Media?

According to your average conservative, the "liberal" media is completely in-the-tank for the Obama Administration, aiding and abetting his reign as the socialist-in-chief. Careful examination of...

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Open Thread

The Endorsement

Artist - Jimmy Margulies In other news, according to analysis by the New York Times, Mitt Romney has raised five times as much money from Wall Street employees as President Obama even though the...

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Wingnuts

The Cain Madness

Now that Herman Cain is the center of everyone's attention, his inner gaffe-machine and limited intellect will finally receive the attention they deserve. Using only comments he has made in the last...

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Open Thread

Cain and the Media

Artist - Daryl Cagle In other news, Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) is vowing to continue his filibuster of the nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. A filibuster which has...

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Economy

11.6 Million Per Hour

The cost of the Bush Tax Cuts. The National Priorities Project, in partnership with Citizens for Tax Justice, has released a new site tracking the ever-growing cost of the Bush tax cuts. They found...

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Economy

Chart of the Day

Who are the 47 percent the Republicans claim pay no taxes? See for yourself: Brian Beutler of TPM elaborates: Moreover, and this is key, the 47 percent is only 47 percent because of the recession. As...

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Open Thread

Strange Beliefs

Artist - Brian Farington In other news, the 11th circuit court of appeals has issued a temporary block of Alabama's "papers please" law which compels public schools to check the immigration status of...

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Food

Chocolate Milk Seafood

I hope you like oil with your soft-shell crab and oysters. A peer-reviewed study released this week has concluded that the government’s safety testing methodologies for Gulf of Mexico seafood were...

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