The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This is a HOOT! Nothin like rewriting history to make a point, eh? Get this: Matt Corley / Think Progress: Foxx: Republicans ‘Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help’ From Democrats During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as “wild and scenic,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who opposes the legislation, tried...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
Earlier this week, Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page that Newsweek’s choice to use a Runner’s World photo of her in running shorts for its cover was “unfortunate” and “sexist.” Palin’s criticism has since been echoed on both the left and right. Interviewing Palin on his radio show yesterday, Dennis Miller added his voice [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
If they're already admitting to causing deaths, why should they care about a little girl's hearing? What more do we have to do to fight back against these horror stories ? What will it take to get these insurance companies to see the inherent immorality of focusing on the bottom line to the exclusion of all else? Think Progress: One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is its...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Michael J.W. Stickings Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars -- a Republican, of course -- claims to support gay rights. He may even support gay rights legislation. But the struggle for gay rights in Utah is still at an early stage. Forget same-sex marriage or adoption, or anything that like that. Utah is not nearly that progressive. Indeed, where the Mormons rule, in one of the most conservative states...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today in an interview with Maria Celeste on Telemundo’s Al Rojo Vivo, ousted CNN anchor Lou Dobbs denied ever erroneously claiming that undocumented immigrants are bringing leprosy to the United States. Instead he attacked Celeste for bringing up reports that he aired on his show in the past. From interview (translated from Spanish): DOBBS: Let’s [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, a new birther billboard went up above Wolf Automotive off I-70 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The sign has a picture of President Obama wearing a turban, asking, “President or Jihad'” and exhorting, “Wake up America! Remember Fort Hood”: ThinkProgress spoke with Phil Wolf, the owner of the car dealership. He said that the billboard is [...]
bjkeefe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Above: Utah State Senator Chris Buttars (R) confronts the homosexual agenda Think Progress , via Jim Newell ( video here ): BUTTARS: I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don’t mind gays. But I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time. Certainly not in my kid’s face. [...] In the past, Buttars has said that gay men and women...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember the old saying, "Fool me once (awkward pause), shame on (another awkward pause), shame on you (another longer and more awkward pause). Fool me, we can't get fooled again"? Less than a week after Fox News host and conservative pundit Sean Hannity apologized for accidentally using the wrong footage from Glenn Beck's "9/12 Rally" as footage for Rep. Michelle Bachmann's "Super...
Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
Never: Source: Think Progress, November 18, 2009 The pharmaceutical industry-funded front group Center for Medicine in the Public Interest(CMPI) is helping its corporate funders fight health care reform by disseminating misinformation and orchestrating campaigns to generate fear about health care reform. CMPI arose out of the Pacific Research Institute, a corporate front group that worked with Philip...
A Jared Manifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you're a Republican, you have a lot of soul-searching to do: This, once again, isn't about a difference of opinion. This is about believing in something that is demonstrably false. If you honestly confess to being a Republican, you need to rescue your party from batshit-wingnuttia. Of course, I believe you don't have to. I would LOVE to see the Republican Party and conservative ideology implode....
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking out against a possible transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the city. The video ominously warns that the transfer would turn the town into “Guantanamo North” and claims that Standish [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Wednesday, a group of women GOP lawmakers held a press conference to denounce a new recommendation by the federal Preventive Services Task Force that women receive mammograms less frequently. “This is how rationing begins,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “This is the little toe in the edge of the water.” “Women in particular may lose [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in Indiana yesterday for a book-signing at a Borders store. One thousand lucky fans with wristbands to meet Palin stood in the rain all day waiting for her to arrive. However, Palin quit the event before she had the chance to sign all the books, leaving 100 supporters out [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, Republican members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus (HIRC) dedicated a three and a half hour long pseudo-hearing in a nearly empty room in the Rayburn building to spewing their “well-worn rhetoric about the hordes of illegal aliens destroying the American way of life.” During the event, “American Jobs in Peril: The Impact [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the state with steps for a “citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government“: This billboard replaces one that warned that the socialist “Obama-Nation” is “coming for you.” It’s unclear who the owner of the billboard is, but [...]
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 08/19/2009
MRC Friend Bob Novak Passes Away; A Look at His Insights About the Media Huffington Post & Think Progress have the story posted about the man who brought the name Valerie Plame Wilson into the press and made Brewster Jennings public knowledge. Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is a hero and Novak's treason could have caused her death, and may have caused deaths of people that associated
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