Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It was okay for John McCain to reference Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan some months ago and say: “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal. But suddenly when Barack Obama says something similar about John McCain, it’s first an assault on Sarah Palin and then [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Forget any thing you ever hear from Mark Halprin. These overwhelmingly stupid remarks stunned even his fellow panelists. His premise? That the McCain house flap will rebound on Barack Obama and create serious damage. Please watch. [H/t to TPM for the original catch and Dkos for posting it on the front page.]
That was very nearly [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Frenchdoc
This really makes me sad. I am a huge fan of George Carlin. I will miss his curmudgeonly attitude, his lack of patience for religious stupidity and wonderful use of all the subtleties and absurdities of the English language to unveil our social ills.
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Tags: Absurdities, Attitude, English Language, George Carlin, Patience, Social Ills, [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week.
Speaker Dennis O’Brien, a Republican from Philadelphia, wanted to honor the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which was holding its 60th annual national convention in Harrisburg. These resolutions are routine and almost always noncontroversial. The resolution pointed out [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2006 by John Freeland
Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary in the Clinton Administration, weighs in on recent criticism of Howard Dean in his latest blogpost. Reich lists several possible motives for beating up on Dean, none of them respectable, and all of them examples of what’s rotten about politics.
Done in by a “scream,” not a lie, nor larceny, [...]
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