Friday, October 12, 2007

A corner-sitter

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Living in Champaign, I know that many (like our own Pete) are upset that the University of Illinois got rid of its mascot, Chief Illiniwek. ...
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The magic beans

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Just as Pete from time to time listens to wingnut radio, to hear what hate is being spewed over the air, I find myself drawn to their half-i...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Anniversary of Shame

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Five years ago, the U.S. Senate completed what the House had done the night before. They gave a madman a blank check to wage unprovoked war....
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

An outstanding liberal arts college....

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Yet we produce Dan Quayle and Fred's trophy wife

Take a second look...

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( Thanks to team member/all too infrequent contributor JB) Much attention has been given to the military force authorization vote concerning...

The Conservative "Mind" at Work

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Courtesy of Daily Kos, some tidbits from the sort of people you find flailing around the National Review, looking for a clue: Are there even...
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Monday, October 08, 2007

Sen. Widestance and Der Chimpenfuhrer

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George W. Bush and Larry Craig. Hmm, what do they have in common--other than an ambivalent sexuality? Very simple--neither one gives a damn ...

How screwed up is our presidential selection system?

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On how many levels is the process by which we choose our next president screwed up? First of all--the "primaries." Primaries have ...

Thomas Jefferson on Blackwater

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We're beyond being shocked at what this administration does, but the Blackwater revelations last week came close. We heard that this pri...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Who could have said such a thing?

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"This defines Petraeus’s failure. Instead of obliging the president and the Congress to confront this fundamental contradiction -- are ...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Now, that's truly special

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C&L has this one, but I wanted to make sure that everyone read it. (Of course, our readership here is much larger than theirs...) Movie...

Just a suggestion

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Under Harry Truman, the name of the "War Department" was changed to the Department of defense. I think we should change it back.
Friday, September 28, 2007

Question and Answer Time

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Chimpy McDumbass , January 11, 2000 - "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" The Giggling Murderer, September 2...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

On Bill O'Reilly

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At first glance, this is just fun. We can enjoy watching a Fox News blowhole makes some idiotic and racially ridiculous remarks, and then tr...
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Solidarity

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The student editor of the Colorado State University newspaper is taking some serious heat for a controversial headline he wrote recently. I...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Wrath of Khangress

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The Senate still can't get it's collective thumb out of it's ass about Iraq - the GOP killed James Webb's amendment to requi...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

A Sun-Times Dumbass

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I usually read the Chicago Tribune letters, but this is a classic from The Bright One Got O.J.? White America can finally re-hang the bann...

Politics Makes Strange Stall-Fellows

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State of Minnesota , Plaintiff v. Larry Edwin Craig , Defendant MEMORANDUM OF LAW OF AMICI CURIAE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND AMERICA...
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Ladies and Gentlemen - your Republican Party in action

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I am as annoyed as anyone that the Democrats in Congress haven't been more effective at doing, well, anything, but there is the unfortun...
Monday, September 17, 2007

For once he told the truth...

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It was refreshing, wasn't it, that for the first time, the president actually told the truth about Iraq? He said "In the life of a...