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Is Fox News Trying To Shut Out Liberal Bloggers?

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Political Fringe, Politics, Republicans, america

unfair, and equilibrium-challenged.
According to liberal bloggers they are. Fox News is reportedly pulling the plug on selective clips provided by the News1News Channel, a progressive news channel on YouTube. YouTube has now shut News1News down, effectively blocking a pipeline of information pertinent to many in the liberal blogosphere. News1News was a popular channel [...]

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What If Orly Taitz Staged A Protest, And No One Came?

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Comedy, Democracy, News, Political Fringe, Republicans

Here she is on her planet.  It must be lonely at the bottom.

Oh yeah.  She led a protest of Fox News for not covering the Barack Obama “birther” thing.  Four people showed.  That is the power of nuttiness!

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Ladies And Gentlemen… We Have a Run-Off!!!

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Elections, News, Politics, america

Kasim Reed and Mary Norwood will face off December 1st, in a run-off election to determine the next mayor for the city of Atlanta.  Neither candidate received the required 50 percent to prevent the new contest.  Norwood received 45% of the vote, with Reed coming in at 37%.  The other major candidate on the ballot, [...]

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Stop Waffling

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Health Care, News, Politics, america

What is the endgame here?  Does the White House want a public option?  Do they want a trigger?  Do they want a Five Guys Burger, or a half-smoke from Ben’s?  Make up your damn mind here.  In my mind, the question of Democrats capitulating on the public option has already been answered.  I think they’re [...]

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When is Change Not Really Change?

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Health Care, News, Politics, america

Ezra Klein and Anthony Weiner ask the question regarding health care reform:
The exchanges are closed to 90 percent of the population for the same reason that the public option is weakened and limited only to the exchanges, and even then, limited to the states that want to offer it, at least in the Senate’s version. [...]

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Pat Buchanan Has A Problem With His Country Being Taken Over

October 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Democracy, News, Racism, Republicans

Reading a column written by Patrick J. Buchanan for WorldNetDaily,  I was struck by something he said.   I won’t dive into paraphrase hell here, so let me quote the former Nixon aide and speechwriter:
America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

By “their ” country, Buchanan is referring to [...]

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Obama And The Facebook Chronicles: Chapter One… Ridiculous Status Updates

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Comedy, Democracy, News

Max Baucus created the event Senate Finance Committee Markup.
Max Baucus created the group If 12 Senators Join This Group, America Will Get Universal Health Care.
John Cornyn posted a note: Amendment to America’s Healthy Future Act: 1 of 67.
John Cornyn posted a note: Amendment to America’s Healthy Future Act: 2 of 67.
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New Blood For A New War Part 2: The Christopher Dodd Conundrum

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, Elections, News, Politics, Republicans, america

The United States Congress’ approval rating is currently sitting at or around 25 percent.  This anemic figure is representative of a few factors: 1) A deflated economy, replete with little to no job creation.  2) A palpable sense of partisan fatigue, created by the non-stop jousting between the two major parties. 3) A general distrust, [...]

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Should You Really Be Cheering Against This Country In Anything? Conservatives Show Their Disloyalty In Mocking America’s Loss

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, Democrats, News, Political Fringe, Politics, Republicans

There is this:
Chicago Loses! Chicago Loses!: The BBC reports Chicago was eliminated in the first round of the IOC meeting in .. http://snipurl.com/sa4y810:42 AM Oct 2nd from twitterfeed

weeklystandard

And this:

And this from RedState.com:
Hahahahaha.
I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone.
I thought if we whored ourselves out to our [...]

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Is This Race-Baiting?

September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Democracy, News, Political Fringe, Politics, Racism, Republicans

The headline September 29th.
This is obviously a not so veiled shot at the Obama administration’s attempt to secure the 2016 Olympic Games for the city of Chicago, and the United States of America.  Is it really necessary to use such vile, suggestive, racially charged imagery to take that shot?  Matt Drudge is losing his relevancy, [...]

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