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Suddenly Transparency Is Bad?
race42008.com —
Authority: 597
The Wonk Room, which is part of the Center for American Progress- a liberal think tank fashioned after The Heritage Foundation - has a post defending the lack of transparency in the melding of the House and Senate bills. The full post follows: C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb is challenging Democrats to keep their ...1 day ago -
Even Glenn Beck Not Crazy Enough to Join Birthers
Greenlee Gazette —
Authority: 141
Image from source, Think Progress So, Glenn Beck comes in ever so slightly below Orly Taitz on the "crazy-o-meter." Whoda thunk it? [Excerpt] World Net Daily attacks Glenn Beck for lampooning its birther smear. On his radio show yesterday, Fox News personality Glenn Beck lampooned the ...1 day ago -
Radically Changing Politics
43-Ideas-Per-Minute —
Authority: 447
Conservatives have crystallized the lowest common denominator in socio-political discussion. Rather than debate an issue on merit, on fact, its much easier to play withe peoples fears and misconceptions. Conservative Republicans also continue to claim that Obama has never used the word terror or terrorism, ...2 days ago -
McCaskill Calls DeMint "Nuts" Over TSA Appointment
Begging 4 Attention —
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Appearing this morning on CNN , Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) called out Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) over his delay tactics. (via Think Progress)3 days ago -
Hoekstra Deserves an Apology
Legal Insurrection —
Authority: 733
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen: “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is the thing that will connect the dots ...1 week ago -
Context, Revisionist History, And A Maddow Retort
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In more ways than one, Racheal Maddow has the chops and the know-how than anyone on MSNBC, sometimes even Olbermann, and this segment highlights why this is so. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy The way in which conservative politicians, former officials of the Bush ...1 week ago -
Get Rid of Napolatino
race42008.com —
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As is well-known by now, last week there was a suicide bomber attack on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. The attack, fortunately, failed , as the explosive device failed to go off . The alleged terrorist is suspected to be connected to at least one terrorist organization . He claimed, initially at least, to ...1 week ago -
Is He Or Isnt He
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Jake Tapper, while hosting "This Week" on ABC, asked Mitch McConnell if the GOP were going to campaign in 2010 on repealing healthcare reform. And even though Tapper usually plays it soft with Republicans in order to curry favor with them from time to time, he didnt exactly let Mitch off on this one: More from ...1 week ago -
Revisions And Projections
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I often wonder how James Carvelle can live with this woman. Is this the new talking-point, that Sept. 11th 2001 didnt happen on Sept. 11th 2001? Dana Perino did this same thing on Sean Hannitys Fox"News" program and went unchallenged - would you expect otherwise? But to claim that it was the Clinton administration ...1 week ago -
Science Education is not Indoctrination
Civilianism News —
Authority: 128
The partisan right-wingers in the United States have been on this theme for a long time: any fact-based education that progressives convey is “indoctrination”, especially when it’s about global warming, something certain people are determined to lie about at every opportunity. Teaching students of any age ...1 week ago -
Not So Scary Terror?
Legal Insurrection —
Authority: 733
So says Matthew Yglesias, in a post titled Not So Scary “Terror” (emphasis mine): Obviously, people shouldn’t be lighting anything on fire inside airplanes. That said, all the big Christmas airline incident really shows to me is how little punch our dread terrorist adversaries really pack. Once again, this ...1 week ago -
Terrorist Attacks Plane, Think Progress Attacks Pete Hoekstra
Legal Insurrection —
Authority: 733
An Islamic terrorist, with apparent ties to al - Qaeda in Yemen, just attempted to blow up a plane as it was landing in Detroit. Al- Qaeda activities in Yemen are a real problem, as witnessed by the U.S. missile attack on Yemen just days ago against an al - Qaeda operative linked to the Fort Hood shooting. In ...1 week ago -
Don’t Write About Stocks If You Don’t Understand the Market
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In a post titled “Health Insurance Industry Registers Its Disapproval Of Senate Health Care Bill” , Faiz Shakir of Think Progress writes: In the New York Times today, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes in defense of the Senate health care bill. “[F]or all its flaws and limitations, ...1 week ago -
Does Baucus always sound drunk?
Corrente —
Authority: 640
Trainwreck! Hilariously, Baucus actually blurts out the truth: Responding to a Republican charge that the Dems want to Europeanize health care, he answers thats "Totally untruthful." And hes right!2 weeks ago -
GOP Recycles Death Panels Lie of the Year, You Betcha.
Daily Kos —
Authority: 791
Some of the usual right-wing suspects have decided that what Politifact called the "Lie of the Year" is so delicious that theyre going to use it again. "Death panels," the label effectively applied in August to health insurance legislation by half-term Gov. Sarah Palin on her FaceBook, is now being attached to the ...2 weeks ago -
Spiderman 4 preview: Who Would Jesus Whack?
Scholars and Rogues —
Authority: 491
Remember the scene in Spiderman 3 when Eddie Brock (played by Topher Grace) goes to church and prays that God will kill Peter Parker? That probably got a laugh out of most viewers because, well, how over-the-top preposterous is it to pray to God to kill someone you don’t like? Jesus us a god of love, isn’t ...2 weeks ago -
The Power Of Prayer
43-Ideas-Per-Minute —
Authority: 447
This has my vote for greatest call-in to CSPAN for 2009. Praying for someone to fail, someone to die, someone to not wake up in time, or for someone to look like a blithering idiot does tend to go against the very nature of Christian prayer, doesnt it? But, thats the the observations of a neo-Christian progressive ...2 weeks ago -
Point/Counter Point
Welcome to The Now —
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Barack Obama : "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill." Think Progress : "...he [Obama] touted the public option on his campaign website and spoke frequently in support of it during the first year of his presidency, citing its essential value in holding the private insurance industry ...2 weeks ago -
The Man Comes Around
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I have been doing some serious considering as to whether, as a voting Democrat and a liberal/progressive idealist, I could get behind healthcare reform as it stands at this point. After the public option was tossed to the side to appease conservatives that are going to vote against this anyway, I was afraid that ...2 weeks ago -
Sarah Palin is booted from her scheduled speech at a Canadian hospital fundraiser.
Mountain Sage —
Authority: 133
Last week, it was revealed that Sarah Palin had been booked to deliver a $200,000 speech at a hospital fundraiser in Canada. ThinkProgress was the first to report that the event seemed odd given the fact that the hospital — which offers the same advanced directive service that Palin derided as “death panels” ...2 weeks ago
