Author - SK Ashby

Rick Perry

About That Texas Miracle

It's all bullshit. While over 126,000 net jobs were created in Texas over the last two and a half years, the labor force expanded by over 437,000, meaning that overall Texas has added unemployed...

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Open Thread

The County Fair Sideshow

Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, the ACLU filed a lawsuit today challenging a Kansas law that prohibits insurance companies from covering abortion services in regular plans, and the UK...

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Ethics

Poll Taxes By Another Name

If you want to talk about things which are un-American, this should certainly appear near the top of your list. In what appears to be an effort to avoid the free-for-all town halls that have plagued...

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Rick Perry

Clinton Clowns Rick Perry

Former President Bill Clinton spoke to the International Association of Fire Fighters conference yesterday morning and while doing so he tackled the news of Rick Perry entering the Republican...

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Open Thread

The Second Coming

Artist - Dave Granlund In other news, Tim Pawlenty's top New Hampshire staff joined Team Hunstman today, and billionaire Warren Buffet again stumped for tax-hikes on the rich. Forgive the absence...

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Rick Perry

Another Oil Man From Texas

ThinkProgress has a quick rundown in convenient graph-form illustrating the top contributors to Team Perry over the last decade and -- surprise, surprise -- Oil and Gas weigh in at number one with...

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Elections

One Less Moderate

Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race today after finishing third in the somewhat-meaningless Ames straw poll in Iowa. Whether or not Tim Pawlenty is actually a moderate is debatable, but compared to...

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Open Thread

What Could Go Wrong?

Artist - John Darkow In other news, Governor Rick Perry of Texas formally announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States today with a pledge to "make DC as inconsequential in your...

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Open Thread

GOP Debate Prep

Artist - Nate Beeler In other news, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has chosen Representatives Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for the "super committee." A...

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Ethics

Rick Perry’s Execution Fetish

The state of Texas is well known for having one of the harshest justice systems in the country, but that doesn't make the precedent being set by Rick Perry any less astonishing. Likely presidential...

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