How are you getting along with Fox-lovin' family and friends?
MSM can’t get enough of those angry tea partiers – signs, t-shirts, protests, jeers, and all. Apparently, the most aggrieved Americans ever. But have they missed an undertow of alienated progressives...
View ArticledKos readers give up on winning hearts and minds of Fox lovin' friends and...
Say it isn't so, but most dKos readers have given up the strum und drang of political debate with their rightwing friends and kin. In last weeks's straw poll approximately one-third of dKos readers no...
View Article10 of Top 25 Hottest Urban Legends push rightwing agenda
But it's just an average week at Snopes, the esteemed debunker website.Snopes is committed to neutrality, so the rightwing designation is mine. I counted any "legend" on the Snopes Top 25 list that...
View ArticleConservative "Mind" Addicted to Rage & Unreason?
Some thoughtful and intelligent conservatives are fretting over the "epistemic closing" of the conservative "mind" (Julian Sanchez). Billmon elegantly explores this construct. But can "epistemic...
View ArticleEuthanasia Smolders; 'Death Panel' Explodes
It sure looked like a flash fire but it actually smoldered for nearly a year. In early '09, the Washington Times, George Neumayr, and Cal Thomas linked HCR to euthanasia while "Dr" Betsy McCaughey...
View ArticleWhere Do 'Truthers' Come From?
A few of years ago, I got into a bit of tussle with a good friend who was insisting I watch a DVD showing how Bush & Company rigged 9/11. I begged off telling her that there was no way that any...
View ArticleHuffingtonpost Headlines Mislead
Live Video Feed of Oil Spill Crashes Under PressureWell, not really. Huffingtonpost's headline doesn't quite deliver when you find:UPDATE: The live feed of the Gulf oil spill...
View ArticleDoes OFA expect us to check our brains at the door?
Yesterday, I got another email from President Obama AKA barackobama.com AKA Organizing For America (OFA). You may have got this THEY BACKED DOWN email yourself: T--BLAH BLAH BLAH ... This movement...
View Article14 of Snopes' 25 Hottest Urban Legends Push Rightwing Agenda
Last month it was 10 out of 25. In May, the wingnuts upped their output to 14, with 4 of the "boozles" aimed at immigrants:No. 3 Arizona Rest Area - 2007 photos of backpacks and clothes discarded by...
View ArticleAmerican Press - Calm, Cool and Disconnected?
Last week Jay Rosen countered the CW that the political press is either a bunch of liberal toadies (rightwing meme) or a pack of corporate lackies (leftwing meme) in an excellent post Clowns to the...
View ArticleConfession: Gun rights advocates scare me
Kaili Joy Gray AKA Angry Mouse's provocative diary started me thinking: I'm afraid of people with guns. Which means I'm also afraid to be a noisy, conspicuous advocate for gun control. I'd be scared...
View ArticleGovernment Scientists vs. the Obama Administration : the Sound of Whistles...
From Sunday's LA Times' front page: Scientists Expected Obama Administration to be Friendlier. No kidding. Here's what's charged by unnamed government scientists: * interference with efforts to...
View ArticleAssociated Press Pushes Anti-Immigrant Story - Fox and Huffington Post Jump On
According to the Associated Press:In Arizona, the shooting death of a rancher blew the lid off simmering anger over border security and helped solidify support for a tough new immigration law. A...
View ArticleHow Rasmussen polls conjure up a 'Political Class' to conflict with...
Shortly after Obama was sworn in, Rasmussen launched a series of Reports (see below) contrasting the views of the Political Class with those of Mainstream America on issue after issue. So who's in...
View ArticleClicking the GOP to defeat: 100+ links to Bad Behavior, Bad Policy, and Other...
Heads up - this is a spinoff of the Grassroots SEO to use our collective Click Power to drive damaging articles on GOP candidates toward the top of the Google searches where undecideds will see them....
View ArticleIf you want money out of politics, which candidates would you send $7.6M+?
Larry Lessig's MAYDAY.US PAC to get money out of politics is viewed by many progressives with skepticism. But this PAC has raised $7.6M* to spend on 2014 races and is soliciting suggestions. Why not...
View ArticleFind candidates to support: Interactive tool ranks candidates/races by...
This is a Google sheet I created for myself and friends to help us choose the pick-up races each of us wanted to support. The toolcontains information on over the 100+ races where the Dem candidate...
View ArticleSpreadsheet with FEC fundraising & outside spending data for 100+...
For data geeks and last minute donors, I’ve updated my Google sheet tool with the latest FEC data for both the Dem and GOP candidate in 100+ competitive races:Cash on hand as of Sept 30Total funds...
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