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• Kilmeade does eugenics: Americans marry 'other species' so we don't have Swedes' 'pure genes'

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  [H/t Media Matters ] -- by Dave Brian Kilmeade put on a classic display of the way today's right-wingers cling to old half-baked notions of race and eugenics Wednesday morning on Fox and Friends, discussing a Scandinavian study of the benefits of marriage: Kilmeade: Leave it to the Finns and Swedes to come up with something

• Sarah Palin's not just a quitter -- she's a professional quitter. And taxpayers get the tab

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  -- by Dave Sarah Palin quit as Alaska's governor because, she claimed, she needed to "do the right thing for Alaska." But has anyone sat down and figured out how much this stunt is actually going to cost Alaska's taxpayers? One of our wise Alaska friends e-mailed the other day, pointing out that Palin's resignation is likely going to wind up

• Fox report suggests Pentagon policy nixing religious flyover is a sign Obama is anti-Christian

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  -- by Dave Gretchen Carlson of Fox and Friends was all worked up this morning over something she read off the Christian Newswire -- and in typical Fox fashion, proceeded to report on only the religious right's spin of the event. The story involves the Pentagon's decision not to have its Air Force jets do their annual flyover at the "

• Coulter thinks Palin's resignation was a brilliant move: 'She is too big for the position now'

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  -- by Dave I suspect Ann Coulter didn't really intend, appearing Sunday on Fox News with Marc Lamont Hill, to open a big wide window for everyone to see in brilliantly illuminated color the deep, sneering contempt in which your average Republican pundit actually holds all of those "hard-working average Americans"

• As 'Tea Parties' lose steam, fringe conspiracists step up to the fore

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  -- by Dave If it wasn't already obvious that the right-wingers who organized the Tax Day Tea Parties vastly overstated their actual significance -- except as a harbinger of the slide towards right-wing populism -- then this past weekend should lay any doubts to rest. Even before the holiday weekend, it was clear that the planned 2nd edition