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» After trumpeting ethics allegations against Massa, conservative media embrace his accusations against Dem leaders
09/03/10 18:21 from Media Matters for America - Research Items
After highlighting reports last week that the House ethics committee was investigating whether former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) had sexually harassed a member of his staff, conservative media pivoted to promote Massa's subsequent claim that t..
» Right Wing Round-Up
09/03/10 18:18 from Right Wing Watch
Rush Limbaugh says he'll leave the country if health care reform gets enacted. That's pretty much the best argument I've heard to its passage. Speaking of Limbaugh, remember that he is totally not racist . Why am I not..
» Right Wing Leftovers
09/03/10 18:00 from Right Wing Watch
Tomorrow, Ralph Reed will announce whether or not he has decided to run for Congress in Georgia. Last week, Marco Rubio joined Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, and others for a Watchmen on the Wall event in Florida entitled "iMPACT 2010: Unlea..
» The Disgraceful Bill Donohue
09/03/10 17:48 from Right Wing Watch
Say what you will about Bill Donohue, but the man never misses an opportunity to play the victim, even when the issue has nothing at all do with him or his mission and doing so is in disgracefully poor taste. Take, for instance, this press..
» Stupak and Backers Still Wrong on Abortion Funding
09/03/10 17:46 from Daily Kos
Should health insurance reform allow direct government subsidies for abortion? Yes, it should. Should we drop the Hyde Amendment, the law that has, since 1976, barred spending of government money for abortions under Medicaid except in case..
» Thousands Rally for Health Reform
09/03/10 17:43 from Hillbilly Report - Front Page
We all know how loud, boisterous and idiotic the tea-bagger movement was in disrupting the townhalls last year with their rude behavior and little concern for fellow citizens views. With that in mind proponents of Universal Healthcare are a..
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09/03/10 17:30 from No More Mister Nice Blog
COMING SOON: ANOTHER PHONY REFERENDUM ON OBAMA? Oh crap, I wasn't thinking about this -- a thoroughly predictable election result could soon be spun as a stinging defeat for Obama: Massa's resignation sets up another Obama referendum upsta..
» Health Reform Poll Approval Gaining
09/03/10 17:30 from The Political Carnival
Andrew brings us the good news. As this poll of polls shows , if Obama keeps up his performances like yesterday and campaigns like this day after day after day, the first poll - from YouGov/The Economist - showing a clear 53- 47 majority i..
» When a Republican electoral victory is a good thing
09/03/10 17:16 from Daily Kos
Phew . The top conservative activist on the powerful Texas Board of Education, who rejects evolution and has pushed for a revisionist right-wing U.S. history curriculum, is on the way out, after a moderate candidate defeated him in a tight..
» Making a Federal Case Out of Perkins' Rescinded Invitation - Literally
09/03/10 17:06 from Right Wing Watch
Remember last week when I noted that Religious Right activists and a few members of Congress were trying to make a federal case out of the fact that Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was uninvited to a private prayer luncheo..
» What we missed: change is good edition
09/03/10 17:00 from Feministing
TAPPED is doing a week long series on awesome, feminist organizations working on critical, domestic issues--spurred by my column this week on the need to balance domestic and international activism. Check it out. India is going a little cr..
» Audio- Limbaugh: "For the first time in his life, Paterson is gonna be a massa" if he chooses Massa's replacement
09/03/10 17:00 from The Political Carnival
That is the most convoluted path to calling a man a n word without saying it outright. He must have a daily quota of racist comments to fill.
» Executing on a Technicality
09/03/10 16:45 from ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can't Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
When a person accused of a crime goes free, we often hear the refrain, "He got off on a technicality." In reality, these technicalities often involve a violation of a person's constitutional rights. In the case of Holland v. Florida , argu..
» Michelle Obama's inaugural gown enshrined in museum
09/03/10 16:39 from The Political Carnival
The dress was always kind of meh to me, but as a part of fashion history it will surely stand up to the previous entries. This is a real fashion museum. WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- The gown first lady Michelle Obama wore to balls celebrat..
» Bitches.
09/03/10 16:37 from Feministe
Have you seen this “bitch list” that has been circulating around the interwebs ? If you haven't, you probably shouldn't, because it is simultaneously sad, disturbing, and bizarrely creative, especially since it reportedly comes..
» FL-Sen: Curtains for Crist (as a Republican)
09/03/10 16:32 from Daily Kos
Every once in a while, I'm right about something. Me, on July 7, 2009 : With 14 months until the Florida Republican Senate primary in 2010, popular Gov. Charlie Crist is riding high in the polls against his challenger, former state House S..
» Bits and Pieces
09/03/10 16:30 from Feministe
I just like this photo. Why a Big Mac costs less than a salad. Wait people still make the “short skirts will get you raped” argument? For real? Let's hope Rush Limbaugh is a man of his word ! Especially awesome is that when he ..
» Republicans and God..
09/03/10 16:19 from Hillbilly Report - Front Page
Two must see vids from The Young Turks:
» Elizabeth Warren, the contrarian economist
09/03/10 16:00 from Feministing
She's got the unsexist job on the planet, in many ways, but damn if she isn't trying to make the best of it and save the American economy in the process. Check out this excerpt from her interview with Guernica : I think partly that I alway..
» Sources to WaPo: Massa under investigation for groping
09/03/10 15:40 from Daily Kos
New developments in the case of the right-wing's latest hero : Former Rep. Eric Massa has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the pr..
» Tell Eric Holder: Stop the Swaps
09/03/10 15:34 from Hillbilly Report - Front Page
Everyone knows about the banking industry imploding upon it's own greed and crashing the economy. Everyone also knows about them recieving a huge bailout on the taxpayer dime and deficit. Despite all of this, it has been business as usual f..
» Census hiring blitz of 750,000 to cut jobless rate, boost to Obama
09/03/10 15:22 from The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff 750,000 is nothing to sneeze at: The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point. The once-a-decade census..
» Altered Carbon – Richard Morgan
09/03/10 15:15 from Wis[s]e Words
Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 534 pages published in 2002 Altered Carbon is Richard Morgan's first novel. It made a strong impression, winning the Philip K. Dick Prize for best novel in 2003, as well as being optioned by Joel Silver, the s..
» Rick Green Says His Controversial History is "No Big Deal"
09/03/10 15:14 from Right Wing Watch
I've already written a few posts about Rick Green, the Chuck-Norris-approved-Alan-Keyes-supported- WallBuilders'-pseudo-historian-TEA-Party-Religious-Right-activist who is in a run-off election next month for a seat on the Texas ..