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A convenient “tie”
by Magnus Nome (Originally posted by openDemocracy, republished under a Creative Commons license) We’re only a few days away from knowing who will lead the US for the next four years. (Probably – I...
View ArticleMittens Compounded Initial Benghazi Fail Because NEOCONS
WaPo on the internal response to Mittens’ hasty, ill-conceived late night Libya presser: By sunrise the next day, it was clear to Romney that they had acted too quickly. The campaign learned that four...
View ArticleRed v. Blue Redux
A supplemental note of consolation for the myriad gobsmacked conservatives who are no doubt sobbing in their double-scotch-and-sodas today: GOP gerrymandering works (alas). h/t QueerJohnPA
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America’s election and the Tea Party
by Cas Mudde (Originally posted by openDemocracy, republished under a Creative Commons license) What a difference two years make.After the congressional elections in November 2010, the Tea Party was...
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Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Or, The Totally Unskewed View From...
When you’re this filthy fucking rich apparently you don’t need pesky contradictory facts getting in the way of your plans for a kick-ass post-victory fireworks display (h/t Kos): Romney was stoic as...
View ArticleWaiting For The Other Shoe re: Petraeus: “I’m Telling You There’s More To Do...
Former CIA operative Robert Baer talks with Piers Morgan re: l’affaire de Petraeus: I’m telling you there’s more to do than with sex. There’s something going on here which I can’t explain and I think...
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The Deal: Various Responses
Actual legislative language of Senate-passed fiscal cliff deal. ow.ly/gsNPZ — Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 1, 2013 Zaid Jilani: Because the payroll tax cut is expiring and the Make Work Pay...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Community Organizer
People joke about President Obama’s abilities at eleven-dimensional chess. I think that Obama has a long-term strategy, more understandable than eleven-dimensional chess. I also think that it’s quite...
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The Debt Machine Grinds to a Very Temporary Halt
Banksy The temporary shutdown of the US government begins tonight. The immediate consequence will be the furloughing of federal government employees who are considered “non-essential”. Some...
View ArticleThe Problem is not The POTUS, but The GOTUS.
Okay, I ought really be shoveling the 4 foot drift blocking my one and only egress from my apartment, but instead I wondered over to Ian’s blog. After reading this post I left this comment. If Obama...
View ArticleATT Wants You to Give Them Your Data!
ATT wants to spy on all your Traffic, and has proposed an Internet standard, so that anybody can do it, anywhere in the world. To us, this seems like a BAD idea. Their bad idea involves decrypting any...
View ArticleNATO to Offer Membership to Russia
In a surprise move, Secretary of State John Kerry was heard to offer Russia membership of NATO in order to defuse the Ukraine situation. In an aside to the Russian Ambassador he was heard to say: If...
View ArticleUS Hege-Money Threatened By Vlad-the-Invader’s Russin into Ukraine
Hege-Money: Hege-money, (“leadership” and “rule”) is an indirect form of government, and of imperial dominance in which the hege-money-lender (lending institutions) subordinate states by the power of...
View ArticleAmericans for Prosperity announces the Neo-Libertarian Platform
Following The Koch Supremes’ (The Koch Enterprise’s Band) latest decision on campaign funding, Americans for Prosperity have announced a new neo-libertarian platform for their new acquisition, The...
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