Karma: Heartland Institute 'Shocked' That its Climate Change Lies Are...
The laughably named Heartland Institute is shocked, shocked that anyone would use surreptitiously acquired documents to expose their lying climate denier activities:The free-market Heartland Institute...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh Has No Clue How Birth Control Works
The Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke story is starting to become surreal. It's flabbergasting to watch the rightwing media machine self-immolate not only over social issues when any rational observer knows...
View ArticleCA GOP Communications Director Calls Krystal Ball a "Slut"
The new Communications Director for the California Republican Party, Jennifer Kerns, took to twitter tonight under her username@CAPartyGirl with the following:Stripper, or strategist? Democrat...
View ArticleShocked Over the NY Times' Goldman Sachs Op-Ed? Here's a Reminder that the...
William Cohan at the Washington Post has a great reminder today for those who were shocked, shocked at reading Greg Smith's bridge burning expose. Fact is, Goldman has been doing this stuff for a...
View ArticleWhat's Going to Happen to the Affordable Care Act?
The third day of oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act saw many justices seem to take a dim view of the severability of the mandate from the rest of the Affordable Care Act. That in turn creates a...
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The Blue Dogs Got It Wrong: Change Never Comes From The Center
Oh how cute! The Blue Dogs are starting to realize that their brand might be getting a little tarnished, so they're remaking themselves. Behold: The "Blue Dog Research Forum" is now...Center Forward....
View ArticleTerrorist Who Attacked Planned Parenthood Speaks Out, Holds Dangerous Views...
The terrorist who attacked Planned Parenthood speaks:The man accused of bombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin said on Wednesday that he did it "because they're killing babies there." Francis...
View ArticleThe Obama Paradox: If Only Obama the Campaigner Could Be Obama the President
One of the greatest frustrations of the Obama presidency has been that the tactical and political brilliance of Obama the Campaigner didn't seem to carry over to Obama the President. Obama the...
View ArticleWhy Downplaying the Difference Between Obama and Romney is Not Helpful
You don't have to be a close watcher of politics to know that Barack Obama has been far friendlier to Wall Street than Wall Street deserves. A casual read of Matt Taibbi will tell you all you need to...
View ArticleA Failed Strategy: Waiting for Obama the Savior
Here we go again. We now know that the Obama Administration traded away the public option in order to gain support from the hospital industryfor the Affordable Care Act. And we know that it traded...
View ArticleAusterity is Not About Policy, But Ideology
I get tired of saying this sometimes, but Paul Krugman is a must read again today. The first half of his column dissects for what seems like the millionth time the economic reasons why austerity is a...
View ArticleWhy the Electoral College Should Be Abolished
Never has the need to eliminate the electoral college been more clear: With so many resources focused on persuading an ever-shrinking pool of swing voters like those here in Nevada, the 2012 election...
View ArticleObama Moves to the Left Ahead of General Election
It's a truism in American politics that one governs and campaigns from the base, and then moves to the center for general election politics. We've seen it from Mitt Romney this cycle, and from both...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase Lost $9 Billion in Epic Screw Up -- Will Anyone Care?
Remember how the financial crisis was supposed to have taught the big money boys such a powerful lesson that they would never overleverage themselves again? Ahem: Losses on JPMorgan Chase’s bungled...
View ArticleCity Living Boom for Young Adults Spells Doom For the GOP
To say that demographic trends are against conservatives would be an understatement. From progressive attitudes among the nation's youth to decreasing religiosity to the rise of Latinos as a...
View ArticlePoll: Most Americans Want GOP to Ditch ACA Battle, Move Onto Other Issues
Greg Sargent has an excellent analysis of the polling on the Affordable Care Act today. The basic summary is that public opinion is nearly evenly split on the Supreme Court's decision (and moderates...
View ArticleRepublican Party Descends Rapidly Into Moral Insanity
The New York Times covers a Pew poll with some data about polarization: [T]rends suggest that Americans are not vastly more polarized than they were in the late 1980s but that they have increasingly...
View ArticleDems Appear to be Actually Fighting the Good Fight on Taxes
Greg Sargent at The Plum Line highlights the new stronger Democratic rhetoric on the Bush tax cuts. It's about time: Sherrod Brown, who is in a competitive race in Ohio, flatly stated that the...
View ArticleThe US Senate is Antiquated and Undemocratic--And the Fillibuster Makes It Worse
The filibuster makes it nearly impossible to get anything done in this country: Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the No.1 item on the president's congressional "to-do-list," refusing to allow a...
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Republicans Actually Floating Platform of Lowering Taxes on Superrich,...
Normally I can read a news story and provide some reasonable perspective to give further context. But this just leaves me speechless: Senate Republicans will press this week to extend tax cuts for...
View ArticleOld, White GOP Base Loved Clint Eastwood's Bizarre Speech
By now most political junkies are aware of Clint Eastwood's bizarre, rambling RNC speech last night. If you didn't see it, it must be watched to be believed:Yes, that is Clint Eastwood incoherently...
View ArticleUC Davis Will Pay Damages to Victims of Infamous Pepper Spray Attack
The wheels of justice are turning at UC Davis in the wake of the pepper spray incident. First Lt. Pike was placed on administrative leave. And now the victims will be receiving damages:The University...
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Watch: Secret Mormon Ceremonies Revealed -- How Mormons Baptize Dead Non-Mormons
As a child of ex-Mormon parents whose blood relatives are mostly still practicing Mormons, I heard a good deal about the secret Temple ceremonies that no one was ever allowed to speak of, much less put...
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Some Red-State Residents Say They Want to Secede -- But Their States Wouldn't...
The drearily predictable calls for secession in the wake of the re-election of the first African-American president have already begun: In the aftermath of last week's presidential election, residents...
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The GOP Has Taken America Hostage -- Is There a Downside for Them?
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the fiscal cliff "negotiations" is that there is essentially no downside for Congressional Republicans in holding the country and its economy hostage. Democrats...
View ArticleMitt Romney Shunned at CPAC -- Why Do Right-Wingers End Up Despising Their...
Romney's not the only one shunned by conservatives after running for President.
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How an Ayn Rand-Loving Libertarian Destroyed The Company He Runs With His...
The cult of hedge fund Objectivist free market libertarianism can destroy companies as well.In case you thought the cult of hedge fund Objectivist free market libertarianism was just destroying...
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The Deep South -- Where the American Dream Goes to Die
Conservative policies are quite literally killing the American Dream.David Leonhardt has a fantastic piece about social mobility in the United States. It turns out that the American Dream, while...
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Meet the GOPer Who Thinks HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS and That Climate Change Is...
Are they getting crazier?Meet the new Chair of the Oregon Republican Party:Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry, has marketed himself for the last three decades as an expert on everything from...
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The Terrifying Future Envisioned By Libertarians
What a libertarian Social Darwinist paradise would look like. I've written often before about how much of the war between the American left and right is essentially the building of sand castles in the...
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The Awful Service Jobs Replacing Skilled Labor
These jobs pay less, are less fulfilling, and have less room for advancement and mobility.We already knew it anecdotally, of course, but a new MIT studyadds further weight to the notion that...
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Why "Fines" Don't Stop Bad Corporate Behavior
Unless the federal government actually threatens the executives of criminal corporations with jail time, nothing is going to change. As anyone who is paying attention knows by now, the slap-on-wrist...
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How the Rich Stole Our Money--And Made Us Think They were Doing Us a Favor
Pushing people toward stocks, real estate and credit cards have all come at a cost -- and with one goal in mind.If you’ve paid attention to the economy over the last few years, you’ve doubtless seen...
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5 Reasons the Rich Are Ruining the Economy by Hoarding Their Money
Why supply-side economics just doesn't work. It has been nearly four decades since the Reagan revolution in supply-side economics came to power in the United States. Tax rates on the wealthiest...
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How Conservative Brains Are Wired Differently and What This Means for Our...
Would the conservative brain respond to populist messages about Wall Street villains?President Obama has famously declared that Americans are not as divided as our politics suggest. But recent...
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The Scary Truth About the Sony Hack
The recent Sony hacking has far greater implications than saber-rattling over a Seth Rogen comedy.Even as U.S. officials appeared to confirm longstanding rumors that North Korea was behind the hack on...
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The Man Who Killed the NYPD Officers Was Just Another Resentful, Mentally Ill...
An angry young man fell through society's cracks, didn't receive the mental health assistance he needed, and was able to get a gun. No sooner had the fatal shooting of two NYPD officers reached the...
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What Happens When Conservative Ideologues Get to Run Their Own States
Failures of GOP economics at the state level have electoral implications for Republicans nationwide.It would be hard to blame liberal-minded Americans for feeling a sense of despair as we begin a new...
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Can Cool Pope Francis Change the Catholic Church?
So far his impact has been dramatically positive in a way that has shocked even secular progressives.The Catholic Church is arguably the world's oldest non-governmental organization. It is also one of...
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What a Rand Paul World Would Look Like: 6 Things You Should Know About the...
Rand Paul's perfect world could be summed up as giveaways to rich, no more school lunches and foreign wars. Many young people and progressives who are wary of a Clinton presidency are seeking potential...
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