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Obama Disappoints Again

May 10, 2010

Barack Obama's campaign theme as he ran for president was "change we can believe in." He delivered that message in a compelling fashion and tens of millions of Americans responded. After Obama was elected by a clear mandate from the American people, an incoherent, angry astroturf far right movement developed. The Tea Party was born. [...]

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Nation In Trouble?

April 24, 2010

The signs have been there for some time now. There was the Kangaroo Kourt that Republicans called the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton. It seemed surrealistic at the time. That's because it was. There was the Supreme Court selection of the president in the 2000 election cycle. There have been 3 huge financial disasters in [...]

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In-Our-Face, Activist Court

January 21, 2010

I think you might remember, I told you this was going to happen….and just in time for the 2010 election cycle….I'm very much looking forward to the WWM, (WingnutMania-Media) spectaculars this fall. Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not [...]

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Neo-Con Words Matter

January 8, 2010

Almost cartoonishly…..check that…..cartoonishly, Republican political opportunists, like Peter King (R-NY), have been chastising President Obama for not using the words "terror" and "terrorist" enough when communicating to the American people. "I think one main thing would be to — just himself, to use the word terrorism more often." The as yet undicted war criminal, Richard [...]

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They Write Lists

December 31, 2009

Lots of lists are being written about the decade that's ending tonight. The aughts, the decade has been officially labeled. Should be called the ought-nots. My favorite list is entitled "The top ten worst things about the Bush decade." Many readers, I'm just so certain, will enjoy reading Juan Cole's list. Here's Cole's #1 top [...]

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Theater Of The Absurd

July 14, 2009

Watch Senator Clown's opening act here. Connecticut firefighter, Frank Ricci, will testify on Thursday in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. What he knows about Supreme Court Justice qualifications, I have no idea. But he'll make a good prop for the circus Republicans are hoping to run in the Senate hearing room this week. Read on…. Frank [...]

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Defending The Beseiged Majority

June 30, 2009

If you were to accept the thinking of the 5 Supreme Court Justices who overturned the Appellate Court ruling yesterday in the so-called Ricci Case, you would think that America's open sore of two plus centuries of enslaving and discriminating against blacks had healed itself completely in the last 45 years…..and now it's majority whites [...]

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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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Refresher For Conservatives

January 21, 2009

Consider this post a language-syntax refresher for conservatives. President Obama today… "Information will not be withheld just because I say so. It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution. Let me say it as simply as I can, transparency and the rule of law will be [...]

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Why Bush Can't Accept Supremes Ruling

June 16, 2008

George W. Bush, on hearing the results of the Supreme Court ruling re-instating basic habeas rights to prisoners held for years in Guantanomo and elsewhere… "It was a deeply divided court, and I strongly agree with those who dissented." He said he would consider whether to seek new laws in light of the ruling "so [...]

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