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| With a newfound level of maturity, White House double-dog-dares the GOP to bring it on (foxnews.com) | (265) | ||
| Emergence of the "Tea Party" dismays evangelical leaders who say whipping gullible, none-too-bright fanatics into a frenzy over non-existent problems is THEIR job (news.yahoo.com) | (169) | ||
| Is Sarah Palin a punching bag Obama supporters use to project their subconscious doubts and anger they feel towards The One? Here comes the psychology (hotair.com) | (337) | ||
| Next time the GOP whines about reconciliation, remind them of the unprecedented manner which they passed the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit bill: extend a 15-minute vote for 3 hours while they bribed and strong-armed dissenters (voices.washingtonpost.com) | (126) | ||
| Cheney 2012. No, not that one (newsweek.com) | (96) | ||
| (AFA) | American Family Association: "Part of being an adult is learning to tolerate speech you don't like." Super Bowl Nipple unavailable for comment (onenewsnow.com) | (99) | |
| (Some Guy) | Israel punks itself with its ridiculous new PR campaign (foreignpolicy.com) | (127) | |
| Newt Gingrich: "Last year, the House was passing bills without reading them. This year, they're passing bills without voting on them" (healthcare.nationalreview.com) | (142) | ||
| After 10 years, billions of dollars, and absolutely zero progress, Obama is proposing rules that will make it easier for schools to make it look like their minorities are doing better when in fact they are not (washingtonpost.com) | (267) | ||
| Andrew McCarthy helpfully points out that the United States was not at war with England in 1770. No, really (online.wsj.com) | (287) | ||
| The Daily Kos Saturday bag o' hate mail. Come for the stupid, stay for the exclamation points (dailykos.com) | (64) | ||
| (Eagle Tribune) | DOT commissioner explains why New Hampshire wants to charge $2 to enter Massachusetts: "New Hampshire must apply for a toll because Massachusetts will apply for it." (eagletribune.com) | (45) | |
| "Soviet power was the opposite of faith in God. It was faith in the greatness of humanity and in the perfectibility of human society. The atheists cannot honestly disown it." (dailymail.co.uk) | (437) | ||
| ♫ It was an anti-Berlusconi Purple People movement / anti-Berlusconi Purple People movement / anti-Berlusconi Purple People movement / Sure looks strange to me ♫ (news.bbc.co.uk) | (13) | ||
| Showing the attention span of a goldfish, another GOP Senator wants Dems to "start over" on healthcare, even though it's only been stated about a gajillion times that will never happen (upi.com) | (410) | ||
| Howell Raines: Why won't journalists report on the propaganda campaign being run by Fox News? (crooksandliars.com) | (190) | ||
| Victoria Jackson provides thoughtful insight into gun control. Just kidding, she says she was accosted outside a nightclub and wished she had a gun so she could blow her attacker's brains out. Because clearly, guns solve all problems (bighollywood.breitbart.com) | (207) | ||
| Contrary to what many people may believe, the Tea Party's motto is "fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets" with little or no mention of God, life and family. You betcha' (nytimes.com) | (304) | ||
| This is literally why America can't have nice things (gallup.com) | (136) | ||
| About that state tax refund you are wainting for. You'll just have to keep waiting a few months. By the way, April 15 is just a little over a month away. Don't be late, or we will penalize the crap out of you (usatoday.com) | (110) | ||
| Illinois politicians are getting eviction notices from building owners and calls from collection agencies because the state hasn't paid for their offices (chicagotribune.com) | (30) | ||
| You know journalism is dead when Maxim is the one printing hard-hitting investigation pieces (maxim.com) | (72) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Bill O'Reilly runs Tom Hanks through the cleaners (theatlanticwire.com) | (167) | |
| (Some Constitution Guy) | Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Obama continues W's tradition of using the Constitution as toilet paper (blog.heritage.org) | (359) |
| (Some Guy) | That thundering silence pervading the land is the reaction of liberals to the discovery that a former Democratic operative was arrested in Yemen for jihadist crimes, then murdered a guard trying to escape (jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com) | (161) | |
| The U.S. isn't a democracy, time revolves around Jesus, and Hispanics have contributed nothing to society. Welcome social studies class, Texas style (news.yahoo.com) | (382) | ||
| Glenn Beck explains how the US started WWII and why Pearl Harbor was justified (mediamatters.org) | (121) | ||
| Hillary Clinton to Israel: Demonstrate that you want peace or we'll unfriend you with extreme prejudice (washingtonpost.com) | (36) | ||
| Who is Barack Obama, anyway? (nytimes.com) | (106) | ||
| (Some Wife With a Black Eye) | Conservative family values legislator gets arrested a second time for beating his wife (bismarcktribune.com) | (67) | |
| House Democrats tell Stupak that they can't pass his amendment because "more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more." Asinine tag stands in for non-existent Double Facepalm tag (corner.nationalreview.com) | (166) | ||
| With health care finally coming close to passage, Republicans resort to concern trolling House Democrats (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) | (251) | ||
| Utah House leader admits to naked hot-tubbing with a 15-year old girl. Was that wrong? Should he not have done that? (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) | (227) | ||
| China is bankrupt. There will be math (articles.moneycentral.msn.com) | (94) | ||
| Mitt Romney is pulling a Sarah Palin and going rogue (blogs.reuters.com) | (102) | ||
| Republican senators actually threaten to block a bill out of principle for once rather than sheer orneriness, questioning why a CEO of a charity receiving federal funds is also getting a seven-figure salary (abcnews.go.com) | (97) | ||
| Conservatives demand a new constitutional amendment to force Congress to be subject to the health care laws they pass. Unaware of section 1312 of said bill, which does that already. But no matter, FIX OLD NO NEW (voices.washingtonpost.com) | (94) | ||
| Old and busted: Reconciliation to avoid filibusters. New hotness: Slaughter rule to avoid an actual vote (pajamasmedia.com) | (62) | ||
| Since Ari Fleischer is helping out Tiger Woods get his tarnished image cleaned up again, let's take a look at some of the other Bush Administration flacks and what they're up to now (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) | (31) | ||
| Democratic House candidates are more likely to mention their positions on circumcision, cat declawing, and Kirk vs. Picard than their views on health care reform (thehill.com) | (38) | ||
| Beck: Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' is 'anti-American,' 'propaganda' (rawstory.com) | (202) | ||
| (Some Guy) | News: U.S. Supreme court to rule on federal sex offender confinement law. Fark: Scalia is the voice of reason (dailycontributor.com) | (132) | |
| Tea partiers send out "red alert" to protest pro-HCR democrat, are met by 5x as many pro-reform demonstrators. ouch (dailykos.com) | (273) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Israel now admits they were using human shields, but says it has nothing to do with diffusing the UN report that accused Israel of doing things like using human shields (mondoweiss.net) | (85) | |
| By definition, Populism prohibits otherwise reasonable people from seeing that the difficult decisions are the ones that rescue crashing economies. Luckily, Tim Geithner is no populist (newyorker.com) | (84) | ||
| Stephen Colbert reviews Karl Rove's new book and finds Karl delicious but a little salty (colbertnation.com) | (35) | ||
| The polls are clear: Pass health care reform and the Democrats will be whacked this fall. "Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes" (washingtonpost.com) | (432) | ||
| Widow telling tragic story of husband's death to state legislature is actually illegal, unregistered lobbyist using husband's death for her own and others' financial gain (thenewspaper.com) | (11) | ||
| Republicans threaten to slam two torpedoes into the side of U.S.S. Financial Reform because they didn't get everything they wanted. "You have city hands, Mr. Dodd. You been countin' money all your life" (latimes.com) | (75) | ||
| Obama announces plan to double U.S. exports in five years. In other news, Obama thinks the U.S. still exports durable goods (washingtonpost.com) | (99) | ||
| Iran wins in simulation versus United States. Iran will win in the real world too. I guess that's not what you wanted to read (washingtontimes.com) | (390) | ||
| "ObamaCare could well become President Obama's Iraq." Except without the happy ending (forbes.com) | (215) |
| Senate Parliamentarian rules the House must first pass the Senate health care bill - and the president must sign it into law - before reconciliation fixes to it can be considered. It's dead, Jim (corner.nationalreview.com) | (306) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Harry Reid takes McConnell to school on reconciliation and the health care debate with known liberal strategy of using "facts" and "historical data" (democrats.senate.gov) | (277) | |
| Swedish security police take on terrorist...t-shirts (with Swedish terrorist t-shirt wearing picture goodness) (thelocal.se) | (35) | ||
| Speaking of health care, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter seriously injured in car accident (myfoxdc.com) | (309) | ||
| Karl Rove likes waterboarding because it "keeps us safe". Proof: no eight-year old girls have beaten him up since it has been used (news.bbc.co.uk) | (59) | ||
| 9th Circuit Court rules "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. Suck it, you Godless heathen atheists (washingtonpost.com) | (219) | ||
| Sarah Palin to host fundraiser for Michelle Bachmann. That's the joke (startribune.com) | (60) | ||
| Glenn Beck exposes the sinister Marxist plot behind popular music like "This Land is Your Land" and "Revolution". I guess "Yes, We Have No Bananas" was too old to cover (mediamatters.org) | (172) | ||
| The "drain the swamp" Democrats cancel all commitee meetings and go behind closed doors (again) to plot ObamaCare vote (hotair.com) | (131) | ||
| (Some Ad Man) | Remember how smart you felt when you submitted the headline that read, "[pundit] goes on [news network] and says [something stupid or infuriating]?" Congrats. You're just as gullible as the viewers (democracynow.org) | (75) | |
| Rove's anti-health care reform column full of misinformation (mediamatters.org) | (83) | ||
| House GOP moves to ban earmarks (thehill.com) | (153) | ||
| (Houston Press) | Just one day after rejecting to adopt the National Education Standards, the Texas State Board of Education votes to take Thomas Jefferson and the word "capitalism" out of textbooks (blogs.houstonpress.com) | (158) | |
| Is democracy in Iraq working yet? 2 out of 3 eligible voters turned out to say hell yes (cnn.com) | (179) | ||
| Most ethical Congress ever blocks further investigation into Rep. Massa scandal (news.yahoo.com) | (92) | ||
| Democrats already vying to be Senate majority leader next term to replace Harry Reid, who has combined the excitement of vanilla pudding with the legislative effectiveness of, well, vanilla pudding |
(76) | ||
| Economic insight from DailyKos: Money is stupid (dailykos.com) | (123) | ||
| Americans strongly prefer Obama to Bush. That's Americans, not "Real Americans™" (salon.com) | (227) | ||
| George Will describes Obama as a "progressive Wilsonian." Basically, it's the "longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things" (washingtonpost.com) | (116) | ||
| Joe Biden appreciates Israel backtracking on their deliberate insult of him (calgaryherald.com) | (90) | ||
| The liberal response to the Citizens United decision is that democracy is advanced only when political speech is undemocratically limited. It's a visceral response based more on emotion than reason (reason.com) | (445) | ||
| Reporter feels up Rep. Massa's past, gets seamen (msnbc.msn.com) | (119) | ||
| Obama gets snail trolled 20,000 times a day (rawstory.com) | (135) | ||
| Remember Filegate? Yeah, that never happened (salon.com) | (127) | ||
| Remember when all that cash went missing in Iraq? Boy, it'd be awful silly if something like that could happen in Afghanistan, wouldn't it? (usatoday.com) | (90) |
| "We're #1. We're #1. USA. USA." Treasury Department claims gold medal in the "Highest Monthly Deficit Ever" competition at $221 billion (blogs.abcnews.com) | (182) | ||
| Old and busted: Obama is an elitist who went to Ivy League school. New hotness: Isn't there one mainstream journalist who finds it odd that, quite literally, nobody recalls going to Columbia University with Barack Obama? (wnd.com) | (358) | ||
| Not News: Three Republicans are running for Harry Reid's senate seat. News: Two of them are teabaggers. Fark: They're trying to out teabag each other (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) | (177) | ||
| Actual headline: "Weiner Avoids Morning 'Sword Fights' With Rahm Emanuel" (nydailynews.com) | (81) | ||
| Some day, WND will be a dominant voice in this nation's media, rather than one of the few truly independent alternatives and the only one sworn to uphold the central role of a free press in a free society and post photos of Bigfoot on ice (wnd.com) | (95) | ||
| Glenn Beck reflects on "tickle-fight Tuesday" (breitbart.tv) | (79) | ||
| Alan Grayson introduces public socialism which would socialsim for its socialism while socialisming the overall socialism bill. Socialism (crooksandliars.com) | (305) | ||
| Texas trial judge who declared death penalty unconstitutional: "Um...Please allow myself to overturn...myself" (blogs.wsj.com) | (86) | ||
| HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius addressing the health insurance companies summit : "Maybe you should use these millions you're spending on attack ads fighting reform on lowering people's premiums instead?" (huffingtonpost.com) | (195) | ||
| Why is Obama floundering on health care like a cat that can't swim? Maybe because he "wants to seriously expand the role of government at a moment when skepticism of government is widespread" (washingtonpost.com) | (70) | ||
| "The left's modus operandi is to denounce the open use of 'violence,' while promoting and condoning every other form of force" (pajamasmedia.com) | (100) | ||
| Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer pleads guilty to dangerous driving charges in exchange for cocaine possession and drunk driving charges being withdrawn. I think we know how he'll be celebrating (edmontonsun.com) | (24) | ||
| There are several things the Democrat Party will never admit about the Obamacare boondoggle, the most despicable of which is that they think it's "the right thing to do." What a bunch of bleeding-heart pansies (article.nationalreview.com) | (69) | ||
| The GOP plan which balances the budget by slashing government to the bone? Yeah, turns it out also raises taxes the most on the poorest people, and gives the richest a massive tax cut (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) | (136) | ||
| Jon Stewart to Bush crony Marc Theissen. "It's a very selective world in which you live and it must be quite lovely but here in the real world things aren't so cut and dried" (thedailyshow.com) | (855) | ||
| Supreme Court to decide whether citizens have a right to "informational privacy" when applying for government positions, potentially opening the door to genetic screening and applicant's porn habits (wired.com) | (69) | ||
| County Clerk budgets vary quite a bit in Georgia. Dekalb county - $452,915, Cobb county - $397,049, Gwinnett - $107,464. For some reason some people have a problem with Fulton county's more than than $1 million budget (ajc.com) | (36) | ||
| Heroic blogger-patriot urges readers not to answer questions of race on the US Census, and to instead write in "American" and then demand that the MailCrat who delivered the census form recite the Pledge of Allegiance with you (corner.nationalreview.com) | (315) | ||
| Today's group expressing great disappointment that Obama hasn't lived up to the hype is... *rolls dice* ... atheists (examiner.com) | (132) | ||
| London is "on top of the world". But, when you're talking about taxes, that may not be something to brag about (dailymail.co.uk) | (40) | ||
| According to a new AP poll, Obama is more popular than Congress, Roman Polanski, lepers, swine flu, hurtz donuts, Toyota engineers (news.yahoo.com) | (210) | ||
| Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni are both having affairs. France surrenders (telegraph.co.uk) | (98) | ||
| "Just seven minutes into Glenn Beck's hour-long interview of Eric Massa on Tuesday evening, things had already gone very wrong". How wrong? Two words: tickle fights (washingtonpost.com) | (211) | ||
| Surprise! Tax cuts aren't helping Michigan (google.com) | (293) |
| To teach Canadians a lesson about the importance of controlling government spending, Canadian finance minister spends $3,100 of taxpayer's money to fly to a Tim Horton's coffee shop and back (cnews.canoe.ca) | (72) | ||
| (Some Poll) | Jesus, Crist is getting crucified by Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate Primary *and* by McColum in the Governor Primary. There's little chance of him coming back from the dead THIS time |
(67) | |
| Arizona set to wipe out government services for thousands of children and poor. In the name of Jesus (azcentral.com) | (252) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The White House says Eric Massa's story about being accosted in the shower by Emmanuel Rahm is ridiculous. Oh, and by the way -- Rahm wants his soap back (apnews.myway.com) | (69) | |
| Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England "a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs." (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) | (185) | ||
| Calling Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez a dictator is a criminal offense worthy of jail time according to Constitutional scholar Sean Penn (foxnews.com) | (587) | ||
| Reason #1 to pass health care reform: Rush Limbaugh promises to leave the country if it does (thinkprogress.org) | (281) | ||
| Under new 'poverty measurement ' guidlines being proposed by Obama, countries like Bangladesh and Haiti will actually have lower poverty rates than the United States. Bonus: Even LBJ rejected this bullsh*t (article.nationalreview.com) | (130) | ||
| Virginia's $tate police help with $2.2 Billion budget deficit by issuing $even tho$and traffic ticket$ in a $ingle weekend (thenewspaper.com) | (75) | ||
| You know what would be great for the jobless? An FDR-style public works program. But the Obama administration won't allow it because it's too covered with labor union pocket lint (theatlantic.com) | (66) | ||
| John Boehner: Charlie Rangel's money is tainted, unless it went to Republicans (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) | (16) | ||
| Republicans: Screw it. We'll just repeal heathcare reform in a few years if it ever does pass (article.nationalreview.com) | (149) | ||
| (Some Heathen) | Glenn Beck warns followers to avoid church if they preach about "social justice" (politicsdaily.com) | (225) | |
| Same-sex couples married in D.C. for the first time (w/pic of these are not the lesbians you are looking for) (cnn.com) | (109) | ||
| Your papers, comrade? Bipartisan immigration reform plan proposed--national biometric ID card for all Americans (online.wsj.com) | (308) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Your tax dollars are being spent on cocaine for addicted primates... and not just the ones in the Capitol (jbs.org) | (39) | |
| Government pension funds whose risky investments lost billions in the recession are trying to catch up with even riskier investments, such as buying stock in Confederated Slaveholders Inc (nytimes.com) | (15) | ||
| Obama: It would be ironic if the healthcare debate and my cholesterol took me to the grave. Fox News: MOAR PLEASE (dailykos.com) | (155) | ||
| The Florida Senate race is getting hairy: Crist accuses Rubio of using a RNC credit card to get his back waxed (myfoxtampabay.com) | (75) | ||
| A majority of Americans think they are less respected now than when Bush was feared by every neutral country in the world (washingtontimes.com) | (94) | ||
| "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre" (washingtonpost.com) | (91) | ||
| Germany criticizes Greece for being babies who refuse to fix their financial problems, while Greece says they'd have more money if the Nazis hadn't stolen their gold and all their kebab vendors (washingtonpost.com) | (129) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Showers were bad enough after the movie Psycho, now we have to worry about naked Rahm Emanuel showing up and poking us with that thing (althouse.blogspot.com) | (55) | |
| Senate preparing to donate another $66 billion to its slacker bailout fund. Get your Mountain Dew and Cheetos now before it's too late (news.yahoo.com) | (380) | ||
| Touted by environmentalists as the wave of the future, Spain's solar power program still needs massive subsidies and serves as an example of what not to do (nytimes.com) | (141) | ||
| Obama pushes health care reform by attacking insurance companies for high rates and rationing care, something that definitely won't happen once the government is in charge (washingtonpost.com) | (217) | ||
| "But while Gore prays for redemption, the pews in the Church of Climate Catastrophe are gradually emptying. The public's skeptical common sense, it turns out, is pretty robust. Just like those Himalayan glaciers" (boston.com) | (634) | ||
| Prediction: Obama will ultimately win over Americans on health care. Stupid liberal FOX News reporters. Wait, what? (foxnews.com) | (207) | ||
| Not News: LA City Council can't say "no" to any expenditures. News: Because they have a computer that automatically votes "yes" when they're not in chambers. FARK: Giving them more time for lobbyists and cigarettes (latimes.com) | (46) | ||
| Time magazine says what we have all been thinking. Obama is the same as Bush (time.com) | (78) | ||
| Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) accomplished little in his year-plus in Congress, sexually harassed a male staffer and was pressured to resign. So, naturally, Beck and Limbaugh consider him a hero (politico.com) | (45) | ||
| Denying tax breaks to films that "exhibit or imply any act of smoking, sex, nudity, nontraditional family values, gratuitous violence, or vulgar or profane language"? You know which state this is (slashfilm.com) | (90) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Five reasons Ronald Reagan should never be on the $50 bill (bestoftheblogs.com) | (260) | |
| Add Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) as a flip from Yes to No on ObamaCare: "I will not vote for a health care bill that doesn't have the House abortion language in it" (hotair.com) | (303) |
| Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-awhide) breaks down and cries about health care like the little girl he is: "Please, don't do this -- just, please" (abcnews.go.com) | (251) | ||
| Fred Phelps vs Marine Corps Dad: Coming soon to a Supreme Court near you (abcnews.go.com) | (272) | ||
| Did the 2010 Academy Awards mark the end of liberal Hollywood? (pajamasmedia.com) | (195) | ||
| Jealous of James O'Keefe's sudden fame, ACORN goes ahead with original plan, gets its workers indicted for election fraud (hotair.com) | (137) | ||
| Palin used that socialist, dangerous, crazy Canadian medical system when she was a kid, and look at how she turned out (politico.com) | (180) | ||
| With out of control spending and approval ratings in the teens, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D), introduces a bill to cut congress salaries by 5% (foxnews.com) | (90) | ||
| Remember the "Family Values" Republican who got arrested drunk driving outside of a gay club? Well it turns out he IS gay, but that's not your business, so please don't ask him about it (sfgate.com) | (206) | ||
| President Obama doesn't seem to have any close friends among foreign leaders. He does have a girlfriend who's a model in Canada, but you wouldn't know her (americanthinker.com) | (121) | ||
| Now that the accusations against ACORN have proven to be nothing more than clever video editing by a felon-to-be, I bet journalists and politicians are glad that they didn't rush to judgment on the case and do something stupid (news.yahoo.com) | (197) | ||
| (The Daily Beast) | The health care bill is a mess. Kill it. Oh, and make Warren Buffet president or emperor or first citizen (thedailybeast.com) | (150) | |
| Sarah Palin's palm-scribbles are justified because God did it too, according to an article not published by The Onion (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) | (124) | ||
| Any legislative bill that "offers an exception for employees who can't reasonably find or afford a porn-free hotel" may be internally flawed (startribune.com) | (46) | ||
| Rep. Eric Massa (D-eh Ghey) says that Democratic leaders are forcing him out of office so they can pass ObamaCare (healthcare.nationalreview.com) | (200) | ||
| Oklahoma conservatives are a little apprehensive about giving the government power over their relationships (news.yahoo.com) | (155) | ||
| (Havana Times) | Cuba says all visitors must now buy health insurance to visit... all of which is unpossible because Michael Moore says their system is the best in the world with rainbows and unicorns in every hospital room (havanatimes.org) | (342) | |
| Remember that civilian trial Obama promised that Khalid Sheik Mohammad would get? About that (washingtonpost.com) | (320) |