Republican Thugs – Scrambled Eggs Edition

H/T JSonline: Larry and Connie Lauer happen to believe Gov. Scott Walker should be recalled. They have two grown kids who are teachers, and they think Walker went way too far by gutting collective bargaining for public employees. They believe Walker should have been clearer about his intentions when he…

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Commander Sulu to the Bridge!

George Takei, aka Commander Sulu, weighs in on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to overturn California Prop 8. Unfortunately, today’s decision does not mean that same-sex couples can resume getting hitched in California. Prop 8 may be unconstitutional, but it’s still in effect until the Supreme Court finally…

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Beat the Victim & Reward the Abuser! It’s the Republican Way!

Economist Simon Johnson calls out the Republican party for bad economics, bad policy and basically being bad human beings. But the severity and depth of our current recession raise an issue that we have literally not had to confront since the 1930s. What should we do when people run out…

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Honest Abortion?!?

I’m back riding that Ron Paul horse…  From Matt Bors:

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Dragging The Nation to the Right

Interesting graph from VoteView showing the GOP lurching to the right over the years and dragging the Democrats with them.  Interesting to note that the Nazi Socialist Marxist Kenyan Non-President Obama-nation is about as “liberal” as Truman and LBJ (in other words, not so much…) Our findings here echo those…

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Reverse Racism -or- A Fairy Tale for Conservative Children

Spotted on Facebook…

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Voter Intimidation Never Changes

It used to be a simple matter of putting a gun to “darkie’s” head and he’d do exactly what you wanted. But we’re much more sophisticated than that now… Reactionary douchebags never change.  No strategy too vicious, no idea too contemptible, no freedom inviolable as long as they get their…

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Ron Paul: Racist to the Core

Ron Paul’s attempts to deny his involvement in the creation of racist newsletters that bear his name are becoming increasingly hard to reconcile with reality. But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored…

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To the Ron Paul Apologists: Racism is Never OK

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes Ron Paul to the woodshed over his position on the abolition of slavery.  It’s a thing of beauty… For those who don’t know, Ron Paul was not OK with freeing the slaves through the Civil War.  It represented an illegitimate theft of private property from the southern…

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Republican Thugs – Salmonella Edition

Senator Dale Schultz recently said he will be voting against Mary Lazich\'s plan to rig the recall elections. Even though the Lazich plan was illegal anyway, that is a minor detail and drew outrage from the hate right. Now the righties have have dangerously ramped up their threat to Senator…

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