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  • Idiot Quote of the Day: The “Gayer” Obama

    Idiot Quote of the Day: The Gayer Obama

    Rand Paul: Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer. We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    Happy Friday. The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. "President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...

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  • What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...

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  • Obama – Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Obama - Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Finally. “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...

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  • Another Day, Another Vote – Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Another Day, Another Vote - Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Election roundup: Indiana. As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...

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  • ‘Romney – The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry’ and Other Fairy Tales

    'Romney - The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry' and Other Fairy Tales

    There are lies...and then there are lies. My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...

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  • A Madman and Fox News

    A Madman and Fox News

    From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this. Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday. "Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...

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  • New GOP Logo

    New GOP Logo

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  • Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson. Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...

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  • Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Sullivan: What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage? A faggot. Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...

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  • Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    And they claim that atheists are immoral? The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...

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  • GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden. Romney, April 2007: It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...

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  • Republicans Are The Problem

    Republicans Are The Problem

      In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics. We have been studying Washington politics and ...

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  • Marco Rubio – Just Another Weasel

    Marco Rubio - Just Another Weasel

    Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play. He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...

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  • Obama’s Move Forward

    Obama's Move Forward

    Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...

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  • Romney’s Etch A Sketch Fun Time Has Arrived

    Romney's Etch A Sketch Fun Time Has Arrived

      It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'. Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...

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  • Romney’s Weirdness

    Romney's Weirdness

    I'm not sure what one does with information of this sort but I thought it important you know. From Alex Pareene's new ebook, The Rude Guide To Mitt. Every good Romney ...

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  • Newsmax and Me

    Newsmax and Me

    Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!   I'm quite sure there isn't much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but ...

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  • Catholic Bishop Spews Right-Wing Garbage

    Catholic Bishop Spews Right-Wing Garbage

    Jesus (c. 30 CE): Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois (2012 ...

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Political Cartoons Of The Day

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-Noam Chomsky

As I battle yet another damn cold, happy Monday to all of you.  I think I need to increase my vitamin C intake.

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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Utah

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Jeff Koterba, Omaha World Herald, NE
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Mike Keefe, The Denver Post
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Political Cartoons of the Day

Politics have no relation to morals.
-Niccolo Machiavelli

Sunday morning talking heads lineup after the toons.

Happy Sunday.

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Jeff Stahler, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio
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Bruce Beattie, Florida — Daytona Beach News-Journal
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Adam Zyglis, Buffalo, NY, The Buffalo News
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Via C&L:

ABC’s “This Week” – Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme commander; Bob Maginnis, national security analyst with the Family Research Council; R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans; Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness; Tammy Schultz, director of National Security and Joint Warfare at the Marine Corps War College; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad; Sakena Yacoobi, executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” – Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” – Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and John Kerry, D-Mass.

CNN’s “State of the Union” – Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” – Just what have the 250,000 diplomatic cable from the latest WikiLeaks document dump proven? To help make sense of WikiLeaks, the financial crisis in Europe and its effect on America, we’ve assembled an all-star GPS panel. Niall Ferguson of Harvard, Richard Haass of the Council On Foreign Relations and Gillian Tett of the Financial Times. Next up, someone Fareed calls “one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life-in-general out there.” Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”.

“Fox News Sunday” – Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.; Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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Political Cartoons of the Day

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

New theme is in place.  Page should be loading much faster now.  Let me know if there are any problems as I continue with the tweaking.

Happy Saturday.

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John Cole
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Don Wright

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Jeff Parker, Florida Today
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Political Cartoons of the Day

It’s rural America. It’s where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
-Dan Quayle

Happy Friday.

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Ed Stein, Denver, Colorado
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Utah
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Chan Lowe
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Political Cartoons of the Day

I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!
-Will Rogers

Happy Thursday.

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David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson AZ
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Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Gary Markstein, Copley News Service
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