North of Center

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RIP: Christopher Hitchens

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Real Time With Bill Maher: New Rule - Pyramid Scheme (HBO)

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Rick Perry; Play him off Keyboard Cat! (ORIGINAL)

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Bill Maher - The Reason Why Liberals Don't Like Bachmann & Palin

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Happy July 4th

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Works for me.

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken

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We Got Him!

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h/t Maru

How to Be a Politician

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I'm Mad as Hell....

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And I'm not going to take it anymore...

Gas prices are getting back into an intolerable zone and the kitteh, she gets a little crazy....

TGIF

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Nothing mocks louder than Republican Jesus...

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Why is anyone booted from a Harper event?
Because they're controlling assholes.

2011-04-05T06:35:00.001-05:00

4 more years of right of center politics and change we're still waiting for....

2011-04-01T05:42:00.001-05:00

Don't Try This at Home

2011-03-30T06:29:00.003-05:00

Clearly excited by the Canadian election...

2011-03-24T06:30:00.001-05:00

Heh

2011-03-18T05:58:00.003-05:00

A cheating man and at least 3 women...

GOP presidential hopefuls have to support the traditional view of marriage, that it's all okay, divorce, infidelity, whatever, because a forgiving God forgives everything, except evil same sex marriage.

h/t Bartcop

Peter King Meets Joe McCarthy

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Meanwhile, in Canada

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Except in Wisconsin of course.

2011-02-24T07:33:00.002-05:00

Rachel Explains Walker

2011-02-22T06:43:00.001-05:00

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

2011-02-17T06:44:00.002-05:00

Curveball a liar...isn't this old news?
Seriously Colin, you're getting to the bottom of this now?

2011-02-09T06:17:00.001-05:00

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They shouldn't be so anxious for this guy to leave the country...

2011-02-07T07:10:00.001-05:00

From Think Progress:

1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled. As president, Reagan “raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office,” including four times in just two years. As former GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who called Reagan “a dear friend,” told NPR, “Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration — I was there.” “Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan’s memoir. Reagan the anti-tax zealot is “false mythology,” Brinkley said.

2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.” Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously. Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.

3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class, but the economic growth of the 1980′s did little help them. “Since 1980, median household income has risen only 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, while average incomes at the top have tripled or quadrupled,” the New York Times’ David Leonhardt noted.

4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, which today has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also hiked defense spending by over $100 billion a year to a level not seen since the height of the Vietnam war.

5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to choose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.” When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he “never seriously pursued” curbing choice.

6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.” “This vision stemmed from the president’s belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons,” the Washington Monthly noted. And Reagan’s military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union, but “also to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control” for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Regean’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president.

7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions more family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of major embarrassment for conservatives.

8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.

9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate. Reagan responded by saying “I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto,” saying that the law “will not solve the serious problems that plague that country.”

10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters. In fact, Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden’s ascendancy.

Succinctly Put

2011-02-01T07:08:00.002-05:00

"If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt." ( former CIA agent Bob Baer)

I guess the U.S. can always find another ally for torture by proxy...

2011-01-31T07:55:00.001-05:00

Buy 1 Get 5 Free? Such a Deal

2011-01-30T22:10:00.000-05:00

Stewart Eviscerates Faux News....Again

2011-01-29T09:15:00.001-05:00

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Good Riddance

2011-01-28T07:05:00.002-05:00

To a neocon sycophant war monger...and asshole.

Classic IOKIYAR

2011-01-24T06:55:00.004-05:00

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has failed to report his wife's $680,000 income for 5 years....against the law of course and that salary also came from a lobbying conservative think tank!

Teabagging favorite Virginia Thomas has been out of the news since she left that inappropriate message on Anita Hills answering machine asking her to get right with the Lord and confess that she made up her damning testimony against lying corrupt pervert Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings...

If this was any Democrat there would be the most severe outrage and punishment, when a Republican... there will be a simple misunderstanding and no consequence.

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If crimes "begin and end with the criminals who commit them," I think Sarah Palin just endorsed a mosque near Ground Zero.

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Telling the Truth Has Become a Revolutionary Act

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Glenn Beck claims 10% of all Muslims are terrorists....which is about 160 million people.....man it's going to take forever to kill them all Glenn?

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Really, he's just replacing the missing in action investigative press...

The site will become more popular when they're outing big banks and exposing big corporation horror stories......if it stays operating.

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Happy Turkey Day... South

2010-11-24T07:29:00.001-05:00

Does it Matter Today that 92% of Afghans Have Never Heard of 911?

2010-11-20T08:40:00.002-05:00

Sad irony...a decade later.

But no more than Iraq having had nothing to do with 911...

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Please Buy My Book

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Now Watch This Drive

2010-11-03T06:09:00.003-05:00

Yay.... Weepy John will be the next speaker of the House...can't wait....anything put forward that's too extreme will be vetoed by the President and anything not extreme enough for the teabaggers will be held up by Rand Paul in the Senate....total gridlock...as opposed to the kind of gridlock we've seen with an obstructionist minority....

Grass-Roots Mythology

2010-11-02T06:52:00.001-05:00

Great Signs at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

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The Stupid...It Burns

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Happy Illegal Alien Day

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Banksy Intro

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Incroyable

Happy Caturday ;-)

2010-10-09T07:55:00.000-05:00

Lots of Bad Spelling... No Solutions

2010-10-05T05:54:00.003-05:00

2 things seem to identify teabaggers,

1) Poor spelling
2) Libertarian views that are not practical in a modern urban society, which means no practical solutions.

WTF

2010-10-04T21:10:00.003-05:00

I'm you?.......man those witches are sneaky....but seriously what kind of campaign has to run commercials having their candidate announce that... I'm not a witch?

Indeed

2010-09-28T20:59:00.003-05:00

Atheists know more about religion than the religious?

Not surprising that the most religious industrialized country is mostly uninformed and misinformed about religion as they are about most other things as well... enter teabag Senate candidate for Delaware Christine O'Donnell...princess of the religious right...

Exactly

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