Month: April 2013

No Tolerance for Warmongers

My proposal is to load Jeremi Suri in a missile and launch him into the Pacific Ocean. There he can drown. And we can lose the life of one culpable moron instead of the lives of an incalculable number of innocent people who...

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One Old Big Fat Rightwing SSI Lie

It goes like this: President Lyndon Johnson raids the Social Security Trust Fund to wage the Vietnam War President Johnson created the `unified budget’ in the late 1960s to disguise the real cost of the Vietnam...

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Bipartisanship!

Everyone seems to agree that Mark Penn is an inept moron: Overhearing discussions about Clinton in the hallway outside the RNC meeting, Jorge Landivar, a Ron Paul-backing delegate to the 2012 Republican convention from Texas,...

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I’m With Robert Greenstein

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is probably going to have to dip into an emergency fund to meet it’s obligations...

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Home Schooling vs. PermaGov Schooling

In his recent post Beat Up the Black Lady Booman wrote: The entertainment wing of the Professional Right has been beating up MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry over one of her “Lean Forward” promos. The promo invited...

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