I’m sure the NRA is all over this
by Luimbe • May 5, 2012 • politics & money
Read Touré’s ”Where’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ for Marissa Alexander” and then ask me why the NRA isn’t advocating for her gun rights.
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Read Touré’s ”Where’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ for Marissa Alexander” and then ask me why the NRA isn’t advocating for her gun rights.
Read more →Chen Guangcheng looks to be headed to US University to study: The US and China have agreed to resolve the Chen Guangcheng crisis by sending him to the US on a student visa with his family. Chen: Saved By College – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast. Contrast that with Romney’s commentary:...
Read more →From the Chicago Sun Times, via Eschaton (Heckuva Job): The private investors who run Chicago’s parking meters are doing better than expected, and now they’re demanding an additional $14 million they say they’re owed under obscure provisions of the wildly unpopular 2008 deal that privatized metered parking and caused rates to soar, records show....
Read more →video platform video management video solutions video player When you read some of the testimony of Cheri Young and others in the Campaign Finance Trial against John Edwards, I don’t see how you can’t come to believe Edwards was a seriously unfit for any kind of leadership role. And it’s not because of the affairs. The...
Read more →Mission Accomplished was in 2003 before George W. Bush started the war in Iraq after already having launched a war into Afghanistan with pre-approval from the US Congress. (The Iraq war is the war President Obama wrapped up like…the other day). This happened earlier this year after the Super Bowl Karl Rove freaked out over...
Read more →Ric Grenell resigns because his boss is beholden to a party base that fervently embraces bigotry. Grenell served Republicans in Congress and the Bush White House’s UN delegation for years. I’m not surprised anymore when I find out a woman, person of color or LGBT person is a Republican staffer or candidate but I am surprised when...
Read more →Even the so called “reasonable” ones like Dick Lugar and the stars like Marco Marco Rubio (from Wonkette): It is good to know that the War on Women is divisive and phony (and anyway Obama started it)! Then about five seconds after McCain finished talking, 31 male Republican senators voted against reauthorizing VAWA (which provides funding...
Read more →This type of work from Romney’s senior campaign foreign policy aides exposes a campaign that should be take less, not more seriously: The Obama campaign has been saying for weeks that Romney has a “Cold War mentality” when it comes to foreign policy. Instead of countering that characterization, the call only reinforced Biden’s point....
Read more →It’s fine if you reach across the aisle, but don’t kneecap your side of the aisle. Blue Dogs in PA were rewarded for opposing the ACA by a Republican controlled legislature here in PA by being re-districted from purple into Democratic districts: Representatives Jason Altmire and Tim Holden both lost in primaries to opponents who...
Read more →Mitt Romney can’t support the Ryan Budget and “fully support” Obama’s student loan low interest rate extension. I see articles titled “Romney agrees with Obama on Student Loans” and “Obama, Romney Agree on Extending Student Loan Interest Rate Cut” that allow Romney to cloud the issue by seeming reasonable. Romney hasn’t reconciled his alleged support of the President’s...
Read more →One more time all together, anyone saying Social Security is broken is selling you a special kind of deficit hawk nonsense: The most important take-away points from the 2012 Trustees Report will be that Social Security has a large and growing surplus; that without any Congressional action, Social Security will continue to pay benefits to...
Read more →Aw, you know it’s Both! Worst first, best for last! Mittens In Paris ft. Annie Dressage in “Mitt’s Time!” Big Tymers – “Still Fly” : “It’s our turn”
Read more →Sigh…more revisionist history about closing Gitmo… More than two years after President Barack Obama blew his self-imposed deadline to shut down the extrajudicial prison at Guantanamo Bay, close observers and defense lawyers with clients making their way through the reformed military tribunal system say the public isn’t paying attention. “I think what you’ll find is the...
Read more →The true believer bows out… Rick Santorum ends bid for GOP nomination – Political Hotsheet – CBS News: “We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,” Santorum said at a press...
Read more →A right wing hack website decided that this was an important story: Chris Rock makes jokes about black people. Chris Rock held a fundraiser for Obama. Obama may have a problem with black support was worth a story. Except switch out “Chris Rock” for “DNC Jewish Liason” and ”black” for “Jewish”. Add lazy main stream...
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