Obama relaxes US' grip on Internet
I was rather surprised to stumble across an article on the BBC today, given it seems to me to be a big deal but I hadn't heard a whisper about it.For years, the rest of the world has been grumbling...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Animus in Full View in Washington State
The Yes-on-8 and Yes-on-1 campaigns, and the likes of Rick Warren, have always tried to claim that they don't hate teh Gays, they just want to "preserve the sanctity of marriage" or somesuch BS. They...
View ArticleAnother Classic Line from Rep. Grayson
Today, Alan Grayson launched a website that wasn't entirely well thought out. The concept was great: let's put some names to the tens of thousands who die from lack of health insurance every year, so...
View ArticlePicking Apart the House Public Option
Jim Cooper said there were many ways to define a public option, and a few different versions of it have appeared in various drafts in the current reform proposals. That seems to have led to some...
View ArticleWherein Max Baucus Says Something Good (Shocker!)
I like to keep a weather eye on what the progress of the health care bill in the Senate. It doesn't normally take long since the process is so dragged out, but something caught my eye today.Debate is...
View ArticleAbout Face! Rand Paul Reverses
According to Greg Smith, via TPM, Rand Paul's campaign has now issued a statement that he supports the Civil Rights Act (I suppose in follow-up to Paul's own statement that he wouldn't seek its repeal...
View ArticlePentagon Survey: Troops OK with repeal
Already diaried overnight by Trobone, tip him kindly for getting there first, but this deserves more exposure.Via Talking Points Memo, the AP is reporting that the Pentagon's troops survey is now...
View ArticleRW nonsense: if PPACA is constitutional, so is forcing everyone to buy a gun
A couple of stories over at TPM tie into each other quite well. Both Ann Coulter and Republican South Dakota State Representative Hal Wick (among others) are arguing that if the health insurance...
View ArticleHouse Democrats keep up the fight against H.R.3
Republicans may have cowered in fear of Jon Stewart again, abandoning their quest to tell women that they weren't really raped unless they have bruises to show for it, but H.R. 3 is still the boldest...
View ArticleHuckabee, in a hole, keeps digging
Mike Huckabee stuck his foot in it when appearing on a minor right-wing talk radio show, when he talked about Obama growing up in Kenya and how his views on the Mau Mau rebellion might differ from...
View ArticleRhapsody on a theme of Paul Krugman
Building on an earlier piece of his about "epistemic closure" among Chicago school / "freshwater" economists, Paul Krugman last month wrote a piece about how not only do neoclassical economists have no...
View ArticleThe Newt King of Comedy
TPM is chock-full of Newt Gingrinch stories this morning, and they're all hilarious. Gingrich's attempts to salvage his rapidly-sinking campaign are just opening the floodgates of unintentional...
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