Day: February 4, 2010
Paul Ryan, the darling of Wall Street, GOP WI-01 Gets Some Press
Paul Ryan, GOP WI-01, “the darling of Wall Street” continues to get some negative press from the progressive blogosphere for his “Road map for America” economic plan that calls for privatizing Social Security and Medicare, tax cuts for the wealthy and other typical GOP economic positions.
Thursday Music – “Bands you probably haven’t heard of” edition
For today’s edition of Thursday Music, I thought I’d highlight some funky up and coming bands that happened to catch my ears. We’ll start out today’s triad of videos with “Pretty Mask” by the awesomely named The Phenomenal Handclap Band: Next up, here’s “After the Rain” by Little Dragon: And…
Bad news for the WI GOP: Tommy Thompson isn’t running for the U.S. Senate
It’s been rumored former governor Tommy Thompson might be considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Russ Feingold, with Thompson being touted by conservatives as the one Republican in Wisconsin with a reasonable chance of beating Sen. Feingold in the fall. I’ve offered at least…
But we’ll only get intel if we torture the terrorists!
Torture works, right? After all, we’ve listened for years as conservatives have justified the use of torture as a means of gathering intelligence, since clearly terrorists won’t provide useful intelligence unless they’re tortured: The “underwear bomber” has resumed cooperating with FBI counterterrorism agents and has provided “useful, current” intelligence, a…
Limbaugh compares Feingold to Osama bin Laden
On Friday, right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh compared Russ to terrorist Osama Bin Laden on his nationally syndicated radio show. Speaking about the al Qaeda leader’s most recent audio tape, Limbaugh said, “sounds like this could easily be [said by] Russ Feingold, the Senator from Wisconsin.” Listen for yourself: I’m…
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