Wisconsin Dems to recall Walker
I just received a fundraising email from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin announcing that the Recall Walker petition drive will begin on November 15. Mike Tate, state party chair, will make the...
View ArticleIt Started in Wisconsin
but through the Occupy movement it is spreading throughout the United States and it offers a real opportunity finally to turn the tables on the rightwing drift that has characterized our politics since...
View ArticleRumsfeld on Obama's National Security Team?
Steve Clemons has a post up this morning on the Atlantic website suggesting that Obama invite Donald Rumsfeld onto his national security team. Clemons argues that Obama's recently announced national...
View ArticlePaul Ryan vulnerable
Madison, WI alternative newsweekly The Isthmus has a piece up this week speculating that Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) might be vulnerable to the challenge mounted by Democratic Kenosha County...
View ArticleA million signatures to recall Walker?
According to a facebook post, citing a local television report, the Recall Walker campaign is preparing to hand over one million signatures on recall petitions tomorrow. Text of the facebook post...
View ArticleUS Troops in Libya?
The Cuban news website cubadebate.cu put a story up yesterday sourced back to Iranian Press TV stating that 12,000 US troops have disembarked in the Libyan town of Brega. The Press TV account...
View ArticleApril starts on Tuesday
unless Mitt Romney flip-flopped again...Mitt Romney says he'll release his tax 2010 tax returns and 2011 tax estimates Tuesday and says it was a mistake for his presidential campaign to hold off as...
View ArticleWill the GOP bail on Rush this time?
Evan McMorris Santoro over at TPM enumerates some of the high-profile GOPers who have criticized Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke. While I think he's stretching the point a little (he includes...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman might have a case
Zimmerman, of course, is the guy who killed Trayvon Martin. According to the known facts, there's little doubt that he profiled Trayvon because of his race, age, and dress, that he stalked Trayvon,...
View ArticleCrummy polling day
First we get David Nir's frontpage report that Scottie Walker has reached the fifty percent mark in a PPP poll when matched up against both frontrunning Dem Tom Barrett and his closest competition...
View ArticleFallows changes a headline. Good move?
James Fallows has a piece up on the Atlantic's website today under the headline: "5 Signs of a Radical Change in US Politics." The meat of his piece is summed up by the following points:- First, a...
View ArticleRomney won't release taxes because he's scared of Obama
How else can you interpret this headline up on ABC News right now:Romney: Releasing past tax returns would give Obama more to ‘distort and lie about' Here's the exact quote, which ABC cites from an...
View ArticleMitt Romney will say anything
Via TPM, the new video by the Obama campaign, mashing up Romney's speech on infrastructure with Obama's. Despite Romney's lying attacks, it turns out of course they said (and believe) almost exactly...
View ArticleThis is Mitt Romney's call
In the wake of the Aurora, CO shootings Friday morning the nation stands poised for a major shift in public sentiment towards gun control. While Supreme Court decisions in the last decade have...
View ArticleKessler does it again
Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler, noted water carrier for Republicans, is up to his old tricks. In today's column, he assigns Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter one "pinocchio"...
View ArticleYour turn, Mitt. President calls for gun control
The other day I wrote a diary suggesting that only Mitt Romney had sufficient leverage to put gun control, or at the very least a renewed assault weapons ban, back on the national agenda. Obama, I...
View ArticleSarah Palin, stupid girl?
Via TPM, CNN yesterday introduced a segment yesterday on Sarah Palin's visit to a Chick Fil A by playing the song Stupid Girls by Pink. CNN now claims it was a mistake and has apologized:"The music...
View ArticleUpdate: It Gets Better! In the wake of London, just the headline Mitt wanted...
See update with WaPo's take on the flip!Romney Remark on Israel’s Economy Irks PalestiniansThat's from Business Week, a Bloomberg property. And the article itself gets even better:Mitt Romney toured...
View ArticleThe Beat Goes On: Romney aide to reporters, "Shove it."
The inestimable stenographer over at CBS, Jan Crawford includes an interesting tidbit in her "GOP in disarray" story today datelined Warsaw. After reviewing the warm reception Poland's rightwing...
View ArticleObama's Regulations Czar retires, business groups elated
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Cass Sunstein, President Obama's old friend from the University of Chicago and co-author of Nudge, has left his position as the head of the White House's Office...
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Milwaukee shooter tied to neo-Nazis
Southern Poverty Law Center has directly tied Wade Page, the Oak Creek Sikh temple killer, to the neo-Nazi National Alliance, from which he attempted to purchase goods in 2000.Oak Creek killer Wade...
View ArticleNobody's saying Romney killed his wife
I finally got around to watching the hard-hitting Priorities USA "Understands" ad, in which Joe Soptic tells the story of how he lost his job and his health insurance when Bain closed the plant where...
View ArticleRyan doesn't have to give up his House bid
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, via the Washington Post and TPM, reports that Wisconsin law allows a candidate to appear on a state ballot twice "but only if he or she is running for president or vice...
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Paul Ryan: Biggest "Brown-Noser"
According to his high school classmates:Tweeted by Ryan Lizza, based on Lizza's reporting in the New Yorker, and linked by the Daily Beast. (He was also voted prom king...)
View ArticleVoter Fraud discovered!
The Boston Globe reports this morning on a suspected case of voter fraud in East Longmeadow, MA, a suburb of Springfield in Hampden County on the Connecticut border. While the facts of the case are...
View ArticleA pig in a poke
For my money, Gary Wills is a conservative. I know, I know, the guy has evolved a lot over the years, even endorsed Barack Obama back in 2008, but for Chrissakes he started public life as a reporter...
View ArticleMason-Dixon confirms Ras: Akin down by nine
TPM is reporting this morning that a new Mason Dixon poll has Missouri Republican Todd Akin down by nine points, 41-50, to Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill. This confirms the Rasmussen poll...
View ArticleGallup Tracker: No Convention bounce
We've seen from PPP that the Republican National Convention registered no bounce for Romney-Ryan in Florida and North Carolina, and we've also seen that Romney's convention speech drew the worst...
View ArticleNo tossups left on Pollster
The most recent iteration of Pollster's Electoral College projections, as posted today on Huffington Post, eliminates the last remaining tossup states (NC and NH) by assigning them to Barack Obama....
View ArticleChavez reelected in Venezuela
With 90% of the votes counted, the Venezuelan Electoral Council is reporting that President Hugo Chavez wins reelection with 54% of the vote. His challenger Henrique Capriles received 45% of the...
View ArticleHouse of Representatives roundup: we friggin kicked tail on Tuesday
I was just perusing pollster's breakdown of the current state of the House of Representatives in the incoming Congress, and in light of comments coming from the GOP that the elections changed nothing...
View ArticleNotes from the GOP Civil War: Report from MA
The Boston Globe is reporting this morning (paywall) on the internecine warfare that has already begun inside the Massachusetts GOP in the wake of last Tuesday's stunning defeats. Kossacks are already...
View ArticleSign the petition
Do it now:WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress. The goal of this petition is to force the Obama...
View ArticleMy school has a Resource Officer
That's what they call cops who are tasked to a public school. The current guy, I'll call him Henry, is the third one in the six years I've been in the building. The first, a youngish woman, left after...
View ArticleVictor Jara's killers brought to justice
Multiple wire services are reporting this morning that Judge Miguel Vasquez has ordered the detention of eight former Chilean military officers as a step in his investigation into the assassination of...
View ArticleLynch's trial balloon made of lead
Although boston.com reported earlier today Turncoat Stephen Lynch (D?-MA) ("turncoat" because he voted against the Affordable Care Act) was going to run for John Kerry's Senate seat, it didn't take...
View ArticleHugo Chávez recovering
The Venezuelan government issued a communiqué today indicating that Hugo Chavez has recovered from the respiratory complications of his most recent surgery to treat his cancer. For the first time that...
View ArticleMass Teachers recommend Markey
The Massachusetts Teachers Association and the National Education Association announced somewhat surprisingly today that they are recommending Congressman Ed Markey in the Democratic primary in the...
View ArticleFalse equivalency takes another hit
In its lead article today, in what promises to be the first of a series, the Boston Globe calls out GOP obstructionism in the Senate, with particular emphasis on the broken judicial nomination process....
View ArticleI will once again walk upon the bloody streets of Santiago
On the bittersweet occasion of the assumption of the new Pope, the first Jesuit and the first Latin American, a cleric with a truly humble lifestyle, and a man who at best failed to stand against the...
View ArticleRiverbend is back!
Via a friend on facebook, I see that our old friend, the Iraqi anti-war blogger Riverbend, has broken her long silence. In the early days of the Iraq war, she provided a literate and articulate inside...
View ArticleDemocrats, Republicans, and Zionist fanatics
I was out canvassing the other day for Ed Markey. It was the first time I'd had the opportunity to do it, partly because I had some trouble establishing contact with the campaign and then when I did...
View ArticleLynch sleaze continues
My favorite Congressman, turncoat Stephen Lynch -- the so-called "progressive" who voted against including the public option in the ACA before voting against the entire ACA because... wait for it... it...
View ArticleIs this man a Christian?
Wade Goodwyn reported on Morning Edition today about the debate brewing in Moore, Oklahoma over whether the town should mandate storm shelters in the aftermath of this week's deadly tornado. Mayor...
View ArticleBolivia: More than a punchline
I've only been to Bolivia once and didn't spend much time there -- only about a week or so -- and my memories of the highlands, unfortunately, are not pleasant. I had come down with traveler's...
View ArticleTHIS is the guy we're counting on to beat Cuccinelli?
So the Virginia gubernatorial election features the criminally insane batshit crazy Ken Cuccinelli, he who would seek to outlaw oral and anal sex between consenting adults, versus the extremely...
View ArticleTuff to the White House?
According to video of a CNN interview posted at TPM, President Obama is considering inviting Georgia schoolhouse shooting hero Antoinette Tuff to the White House. In the interview, the president...
View ArticleSemantic, umm, clarity from the Alaska ex-governor?
Via TPM, the half-term former governor of Alaska had a little shall we say difficulty expressing her future health care plans on NBC's Today show this morning:The plan is to allow those things that had...
View ArticleObama earns his Nobel
TPM prints the AP wire report on the backstory to last night's nuclear deal with Iran. Secret talks with Iran have been ongoing for at least a year, long before the more moderate Rouhani...
View ArticleOn Lynching
In the wee hours of the morning of March 9, 1892, the three owners of the People’s Grocery Store, a market catering to the black community of Memphis, TN, were removed by a mob from the city’s jail,...
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