Archive for September 8th, 2011

President Obama’s Speech Open Thread

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Have at it.

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The Illegals are Coming! The Illegals are Coming!

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That’s the rallying cry of a group of “concerned state legislators.” The group, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, was founded by State Representative Daryl Metcalfe or Pennsylvania. Metcalfe is a colorful character. In 2009, he held up a resolution declaring October “Domestic Violence Awareness Month” because he claimed that the bill “had language in it […]

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The ‘Lessons’ We Never Learned From 9/11

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The ‘Lessons’ We Never Learned From 9/11

It’s hard to take the slogan “never forget” seriously when, as a country, we never learned the true lessons of 9/11 in the first place.

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Federal Gas Tax Wanes

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Federal Gas Tax Wanes

Maybe we should think about raising the federal gas tax and the state gas tax while we are at it.

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Through Palin-Crossed Eyes

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Through Palin-Crossed Eyes

That’ll do Sarah, that’ll do.

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Al Gore on Obama

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Al Gore on Obama

“Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution—even though economists have shown that the US economy would benefit from the job creating investments associated with implementing the new technology.”

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Survey Says . . .

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Survey Says . . .

What percentage of Tea Baggers believe that discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination against minority groups?

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Out with the Whigs

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The Republican debate last night highlighted the chasm that is splitting the party.

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Republicans Cheer for 234 Executions

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Republicans Cheer for 234 Executions

Republicans have no shame.

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