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An Open Letter to Christopher Mertes

On December 30, 2011 By

Cross Posted @ Forwardlookout:

Christopher Mertes, managing editor and far right wing idealogue, of the Sun Prairie Star, recently wrote one of the most ridiculous editorials I have seen this side of Christian Schneider. In his editorial, Mertes accuses democrats of hate speech, based on a few different [...]

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Because This Will Drive Them Crazy!

On November 27, 2011 By

This picture is simply too awesome not to share.  And that it will drive conservatives insane makes it double-plus awesome!

(h/t Ray Reynolds)

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random thoughts and links…

On December 27, 2010 By

1. Thanks to President Obama and the democratic congress we will now be able to feel safe when we eat. They recently passed the Food Safety Modernization Act. While the vote ended up unanimous in the Senate, the partisan hacks in the House voted almost on a party line. Luckily the democrats [...]

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Congrats Chelsea BUT…….

On August 2, 2010 By

Something is seriously wrong with our system. When we have very well paid government officials(the president makes $400,000 a year plus expenses, the governor of WI makes $136,000 yearly.) waiting until they get out of office so they can cash in. As Tommy Thompson so succinctly put it “”Everybody knows I was broke when I [...]

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NRA Telephone Survey (Oct 2009)

On October 25, 2009 By

This Sunday afternoon I received a phone call  from a woman asking if I would answer a one-question survey about the Second Amendment. I said, “yes”. The caller asked me to listen to a recorded comment by  Wayne LaPierre from the NRA.

(I may not have this exactly right and if any of you have [...]

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Politics certainly makes for strange bedfellows…

On May 19, 2009 By

In what has to be one of the strangest ideas I’ve ever read, a John Coale, a Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary Clinton:

Coale, a wealthy trial attorney and [...]

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A few of the funniest ads of the 2008 presidential campaign

On April 21, 2009 By

I know the 2008 presidential campaign is long over, but as I happened to be surfing the intertubes, I came across a few ads that I think were some of the funniest ones that aired:

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Feingold: Give appointment powers to the people

On January 26, 2009 By

In the wake of the controversial selection of Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate seat and the decision by embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to name Roland Burris to President Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold announced plans to introduce an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require [...]

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Tuesday randomness

On December 2, 2008 By

Just a few things that caught my eye:

David Gregory has been named as Tim Russert’s replacement on ‘Meet the Press.’ I think David Gregory is an excellent choice to carry on the tradition of tough, smart, but fair moderating on ‘Meet the Press,’ and I think he’s a more than worthy successor to [...]

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Clinton to SoS unConstitutional?

On November 30, 2008 By

According to the LA Times’ Top of the Ticket blog, president-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Senator Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State may not be Constitutional due to this clause in Article One, Section Six of the U.S. Constitution (emphasis mine):

“No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was [...]

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