Month: November 2009

A Small Slice of Conservative Sanity

For years I’ve wondered why climate change became a political issue, with conservatives jumping on the denialist propaganda offered up with gusto by the fossil fuel industry funded disinformation campaign. One conclusion...

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A Soldier of Allah … Nidal Hasan

. [My answer to Hurria in a discussion of my diary: Fort Hood Shooting A Palestinian Issue?. To be clear, see timeline in my statement putting up this diary: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 02:42:20 AM PST.] From your own bias you continue...

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Something Less Annoying

Have you seen Al Franken draw the United States from memory? That performance has inspired a contest: It’s good to see a little uplifting, humorous news from Alaska’s Senate delegation. According to Politico’s...

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What If…

Can you imagine what would have happened to Howard Dean if he had tried to pull this when he was chairman of the DNC? Last week, Republican National Committee Michael Steele warned GOP members of Congress that they will face...

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