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Is Political Violence Part Of The Plan?

September 18, 2009

Nancy Pelosi made some very sobering comments yesterday about the potential for political violence inside America…. "I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco, this king of rhetoric. … It created a climate in which violence took place. … [...]

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Tea Partiers: The Incarnation of Dick Cheney

September 15, 2009

Updated below Humans will lie about almost anything…..check that….Humans will lie about anything. I'm not sure whether the human habit of lying can be attributed to evolution or not. Perhaps we have been programmed over 15,000 years or so to deceive other humans for self-preservation purposes. Whatever the reason…..dishonesty, lying, deception….have always been human traits. [...]

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Dangerous National Threat

August 19, 2009

Much has been said about the young black man outside of an Arizona health care reform town hall. The one who had an AR-15 semi-automatic assault weapon strapped to his back. Some rather imaginative conservatives have suggested that the assault weapon toter was an Obama plant. The man was black and Obama is black, so, [...]

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The Right To Intimidate With Guns

August 18, 2009

From the AP…. About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday – the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president. These Timothy McVeigh wannabes are kind of like vampires. Vampires [...]

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Lawlessness & Thuggery Work

August 13, 2009

Please watch the first few minutes of this clip from last night's Rachel Maddow program…… Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy There are those who would seek to convince me that the hatred, rage, violence. swastikas, death threats, hangings-in-effigy and brandishing of firearms recently in and around townhall meetings [...]

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Reviewing the "Rage"

August 12, 2009

The profound wisdom of Duncan Black, aka, Atrios…. "Nobody could've predicted that electing a black man president would drive this country completely f*cking insane." The milder, less abrasive thoughtfulness of today's AB Journal editorialist…. "The furor at town-hall meetings has been revealing. It has exposed a disturbing depth of ignorance regarding the national structure of [...]

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A Review Of Recent Right Wing Violence

June 13, 2009

Paul Krugman on Thursday…. Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.….. And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased. [...]

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Why Are Liberal Viewpoints Censored?

June 5, 2009

Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday was quite remarkable. Obama is not just an exceptional American president, but also an exceptional world leader. I need to go over the transcript for blogging purposes….so for now, here's a great 4:43 long compilation from Talking Points Memo, of Obama's remarks to the Muslim world…. What I want to [...]

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American Taliban

June 1, 2009

Remember this? April 15, 2009, Foxnews.com… The government considers you a terrorist threat if you oppose abortion, own a gun or are a returning war veteran. That's what House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wednesday in response to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of the rise of right-wing extremist groups. [...]

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The Dick Report

May 9, 2009

Updated below While Mr. Cheney held the office of the vice presidency, about the only time I can recall him being on the teevee was during the fraud-up leading to the U.S. act of aggression against the formerly sovereign nation of Iraq. Mr. Cheney appeared several times on American teevee telling obvious lies about the [...]

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