Month: September 2011

What’s The Big Deal?

This story is significant because Glen Rice is 6’7″, right? Or maybe it’s because Sarah Palin preaches abstinence? Or because it means there are only two degrees of separation between Sarah Palin and The Real...

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Wanna Tear Apart the Country?

Forty-eight states allocate their Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis (the exceptions are Maine and Nebraska). That’s quite likely to change, especially in my home state of Pennsylvania. Each state’s...

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Republicans Hate People

You think my title is a lie? Explain this story then: A package of disaster relief funding worth $7 billion was blocked from coming up for a vote by Senate Republicans on Monday, drawing sharp condemnation from Senate Majority...

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Obama and the Republican Clergy

I think Andrew Sullivan is right when he follows on Mike Lofgren’s essay by again directly pegging modern Republicanism as a religious movement, and considers what that means: …this political deadlock conceals a...

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