Category Archives: Politics

The New Campaign

Without a doubt, the Massachusetts Special Election was a setback. But as big of a blow as losing a 60 vote super-majority may have been, there's something much bigger at stake. Unless the president does something to rekindle the enthusiasm of 2008, the Democratic party is in danger of having a generation of young voters simply saying, "fuck it".
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The Strategy For 2010

Despite what anyone says, the result from the Massachusetts special election is not a repudiation on health care reform, President Obama, or Liberalism. Instead this was a perfect storm of 10% unemployment, opposition enthusiasm that always occurs in off-year elections, and a really shitty candidate in Martha Coakley. Regardless, the Democratic Party got caught napping, [...]
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Compromise

Alright, teabaggers. I’ll meet you half way. Let’s agree that he’s not a Nazi, but he is a socialist.
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America, Fuck Yeah!

A depressing day: I can tell you when this country will get real health care reform. It will come when insurance premiums are so high, and when so many people die from lack of health care, and when so many people go bankrupt from paying medical bills, and when the rest of the system is [...]
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Acting Tough

In high school (and all of this is still the case), I never put on a tough guy facade (although I was, and still am, a metalhead), I never talked shit to anyone, and I never threatened anyone. I was always nice to people, I was easy to get along with, and in general, I [...]
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Politifact Weighs In on the INTERPOL Nontroversy

Politifact gives Gingrich's statement that Executive Order 12425 could, "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials" a rating of "Pants on Fire"
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Chuck Norris Can Reach a Conclusion without Any Evidence

Turns out, there are more facts about Chuck Norris than his ability to slam a revolving door or win a game of Connect Four in only three moves or touch MC Hammer. He's now capable of making Glenn Beck look sane.
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Why I’m Happy Palin’s Joining Fox News

This will provide Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with a lot of great material.
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Racial Profiling is a Terrible Strategy

In a commendable act of patriotism, “Muslims, Arab-Americans and Nigerian-Americans stood together Friday outside the federal courthouse [in Detroit] to speak out against terrorism and Islamic extremists…. The rally was held during the U.S. District Court arraignment of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet [...]
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Gotta Give Fox News Credit on This One

After prominent figures on the right, and their zombie followers, jumped to conclusions of conspiracy over President Obama's executive order granting certain immunities to INTERPOL, a panel on Fox News quelled the resulting hyperbolic nontroversy. Don't expect any retractions from Beck, Limbaugh or others in the near future.
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