Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
Another reason to be glad John McCain is not president.
The Afghanistan troop surge…
Well, I’m not so much concerned about the number because I understand that it may be additional allied troops to help out, too. I’d like to look at the overall strategy. I would like to see the emphasis on succeeding, not on an exit strategy.
Greta, the exit strategy takes care of itself once you succeed just as it did in Iraq. But I’d like to hear the whole thing. I hope the president will make the right decision here. And I would like to support him if he does.
Way to go, John. Approach Afghanistan with the same blind idiotic passion as you did with Iraq. Send in more American troops in without a clue as to how you’ll get them out or as to what a victory would even look like. As for “success” in Iraq, last time I checked, there were still 130,000 American troops in that godforsaken country.
This is the same John McCain who claimed he’d have no problem with American troops being in Iraq for another 100 years. Having served in the military and as a POW does not necessarily make one a competent military strategist. John McCain, fraud extraordinaire, demonstrates this point every time he opens up his silly mouth.
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Palin faced a choice–seriousness or celebrity–and she chose the latter.
But while Palin’s choice means that we’ll be spared of the prospect of Senator Palin or President Palin, that doesn’t mean that we’ll be rid of her any time soon. In fact, Palin’s choice augurs a longer period of relevance for her. Defeated politicians fade away (Mike Dukakis anyone?), but, in this day and age, celebrities, even talentless ones, linger. Less like pneumonia and more like a certain communicable disease, I’m afraid Sarah Palin is one of those things that will always be with us.
The reason for Palin’s staying power will be the same thing that keeps a celebrity like Richie’s old running partner, Paris Hilton, in the spotlight. No, not a sex tape, thank God, but something related: shamelessness. These days, once someone has attained a certain level of celebrity (as Hilton and Palin have), if that person is willing to say or do anything (as Hilton and Palin are), then it’s pretty much impossible to lose it (which Hilton and Palin won’t).
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Fox News does this on such a regular basis that we hardly notice anymore. .
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Let me take a slant different than what you’ll read on most liberal blogs. I’m not going to slam Perino here. Yes, she’s a typical delusional conservative but I don’t think she’s an idiot. She’s quite aware of 9/11. What she most probably meant to say was that under President Bush, there had been no attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. It’s sort of 9/11 being the point from which we measure all future acts of terrorism. Fine, I’ll give her that but the fact still remains that 9/11 happened under Bush’s watch and his administration ignored memos and intelligence from the NSA that al Qaeda was planning an attack.
What is more unforgivable is Hannity and the lackey in the video (whoever) sitting there and not saying a single word to correct the gross misstatement by Perino. Their focus is so aimed at attacking and destroying Obama that even a statement so blatantly wrong flies right over their heads.
Hey, what can we say about Fox that has not been said a thousand times…
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What makes me laugh about the position held by climate change deniers is their claim that global warming is a hoax which somehow has hundreds of thousands of scientists and government officials from around the world working in unison to fool an entire world’s population. The thought process does not get any dumber than this and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how the scientific process operates.
As Begley points out, science is all about peer review. No organization polices itself with more rigor and honesty than the scientific community. If a scientist gets it wrong, then you can bet your last dollar that his ideas will be ripped to shreds by other scientists. This is what they do. This is what science does. There is no tolerance for error or conjecture which cannot be supported by scientific fact and/or experiment. To think that a million scientists would choose to deceive the world on climate change is the thinking of fools.
One last point on the dolt’s idiotic rage about the government walking into his home and forcing him to stop using incandescent lightbulbs. As someone noted, did this guy complain when the government outlawed lead in paint or asbestos in homes? Did he shout out, “I don’t want the government telling me I can’t paint my baby’s room with lead paint. Stay out of my house!”
To wrap this up, let me quote myself from a previous post.
Climate change deniers work hard to make it appear that there is a real debate going on within the scientific community on whether or not man has had a significant impact on global warming. There is no such debate beyond the propaganda one hears from conservatives on Fox and elsewhere. The real debate concerns itself with the mechanisms which drive global warming and not on whether it exists or on whether man has had a detrimental effect on climate change.
Unless one is a qualified scientist, all we can do is take a look at who is saying what. On one side we have the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) composed of the world’s leading scientists. We have the top scientific institutions from EVERY industrialized nation in the world all on the same page. We have the disciplines of climatology, geology, chemistry, physics, etc. all working independently and coming to basically the same conclusion: man is a major cause of global warming. We have a ton of peer-reviewed articles published in the leading scientific journals to back up their claims.
On the other side we have a handful of scientists (literally, a handful), conservative politicians and industry people who discount the case for global warming. A large number of the denier’s scientists have been shown to be on the Exxon payroll and Exxon itself has spent millions on lobbyists and propaganda campaigns to create the illusion of a scientific debate. There are no peer-reviewed scientific studies to which the deniers can point to to back up their fraudulent claims. This is a faux debate.
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