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Breitbart.com article on Zimmerman's arrest results in deluge of racist comments

The right's desperate attempts to make the slaying of Trayvon Martin about something other than race – anything other than that – have largely been a failure. This is just one of the many reasons why:

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CNN: Now that Zimmerman to be charged, manhunt may be necessary

Interesting speculation on CNN just now that – ironically – because Zimmerman has gone into hiding from his attorneys, there's no one to inform him directly that he's been charged once that happens, and no one to negotiate a peaceful surrender to the police. Because n …

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Another manufactured scandal blows up in the right's face as Poland backs Obama over missile shield, says "this is not new", "there is no military threat" from Russia

It goes a little something like this. The right finds something that most reasonably intelligent and honest people wouldn't consider a big deal, or even interesting, that gives them an excuse to freak out. Without thinking, waiting for facts, or really using their brains, they w …

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Looking for the far left in all the wrong places (because it doesn't exist)

One of my readers left a comment earlier this morning where they said they were both a "hard fiscal conservative" and opposed "outright welfare type programs", which they believed would "piss off the hard left". I have a hard time believing that because as far as I'm concerned, t …

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Bull@!$%# fear mongering from the far right on Newsvine and the Brietbart sewers

Sometimes it's hard to understand how any person could be as dishonest or as dumb as Joel Pollak is, and there's really nothing better anyone can say about Newsvine users who post his garbage and support it, other than that. A relatively benign remark by President Obama to curre …

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Today's Supreme Court argument may render the next two days redundant, and make President Obama a very happy man

One of the arguments being made this afternoon at the Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act will involve an obscure 1867 law that forbids suing over a tax before it has been collected. This will be the most important thing happening in the country today, because as Greg Sarg …

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Congress rated most conservative in 133 years (possibly ever), and Americans despise it in record numbers

Paul Breer has a blog post up this morning showing off some of the work of political science professor Keith Poole, showing that the current Congress is the most conservative Congress in the past 133 years. That's not just the House he studied, mind you. (But it is the House that …

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Has the right lost its cojones?

Numbers are starting to leak about the damage that Premier (think of it as Tea Party Radio network) is taking, thanks to their decision to base an entire business on broadcasting hate speech over publicly owned airwaves to mindless drones that just want to be told what to think  …

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The primary election is over. Your 2012 GOP nominee is Mitt Romney.

The media isn't talking about delegate totals versus how many are left because then they couldn't justify their fun entertainment shows continuing, they'd have to come to an end and go back to reporting actual news for a living. I'll save them the trouble. Here's the current del …

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Media ignores Rick Santorum's extremist views while making him apologize for calling someone a mean name

Caught this on Twitter a little while ago: In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Rick Santorum said his "snob" comment about Obama on education was "a strong term" and "probably not the smartest thing." Here's the full exchange from CNN's transcript: [..]

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The economy, American Taliban, and the GOP

Roy Blunt is going to try to amend the Affordable Care Act to allow employers to deny any health service to their employees as long as they are morally offended by it.

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CBS News accepts journalism award from hate group at CPAC

We shouldn't expect much from a media that spends more time reporting on petty, tawdry sex scandals than it does real stories like indefinite detention of American citizens accused of terrorism without a trial or even charges, the assassination of American citizens by their own g …

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House M.D. is ending with its current season

I just got a press release from FOX that can be summed up thusly:

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Roundup: Gingrich's $7 billion funder, Obama ahead in Virgina, CPAC features white nationalist

"Reading the Huffington Post so that you don't have to.." * Last night's fake primaries * Romney to open up on Santorum * CNN's selective morals * CPAC to feature a white nationalist * Syria's President's aids think we're mental pussies * Intrade really blew it last night * How m …

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Roundup: Gay Armageddon, Obama back to positive job approval, Romney's favorables plummeting, SGK exec Handel quits and hits Fox News to whine within hours

A bit of background is required for the first item today. The 2010 census found significant population growth in Texas, enough to earn it four new districts and therefore four new seats in the House of Representatives.

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Roundup: Romney pulling away from GOP, Obama pulling away from Romney

Ron Paul has been charging tax payers for flights between Washington and his home district in Texas even after paying himself for them with "a network of political and nonprofit organizations he controlled." (Roll Call, @StevenTDennis) President Obama already has five campaign of …

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Roundup: Iran's frightening $7 billion defense budget, GOP Sec. Of State convicted of voter fraud

Light news day on the weekend... Glenn Greenwald ponders the growing Iranian military behemoth with it's $7 billion annual defense budget and how Iran has us right where they want us: completely surrounding them from every side. Those devious bastards.

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Roundup: Corporate tax rate drops to 12.1%, NY AG opens fire on Wall Street, "Lana Del Rey all day"

The real U.S. corporate tax rate (that's a real metric) is down to 12.1%, the lowest it's been since 1972. And every 2012 GOP candidate wants to cut them even further.

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Komen backs down on Planned Parenthood, unemployment rate drops to lowest since Feb '09, January adds more jobs than expected on a damn good news day for women, liberals, and America

The flame-throwing going on this week over the stupid decision by SGK to insert conservative politics into the dealings of a medical foundation overwhelmingly funded and adored by women has been interesting to watch.

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Pablo Picasso Was Never Called An @!$%#. A Comment on Iarnuocon.

In the words of that great Boston band, The Modern Lovers, Pablo Picasso was never called an @!$%#.

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Former Newsviner gets lit up by Right-Wing Watch

RWW has a post up this afternoon ripping into a former Newsviner for turning nonsensical right-wing talking points into a sort of word salad of vile bull@!$%# that would cause any normally functioning human being to exile themselves from society in order to prevent breeding and to …

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Fifth 2012 GOP candidate in a row inflates, then pops (Gingrich edition)

The 2012 GOP flavor of the week really only lasted a week and change. Newt Gingrich is plummeting in Iowa, running 27%, 22%, and 14% in the last three PPP polls.

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Is Gingrich crashing already?

I've had my head buried in electoral politics over the past two days and I'd like to write more on that topic in the near future.

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If not the good guys, who will tell the truth about GOP election rigging?

An article in the Times by one of the nation's best journalists talks about a speech that AG Holder was to give today on states (mostly controlled by Republicans after last year's elections) that are restricting the ability of Americans (mostly minorities and young people) to vot …

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