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23 Aug 2011

Paul dismisses supporter’s Perry sex ad as silly

Robert Morrow, an Austin-based Paul backer and self-employed investor, bought the ad in the local alt weekly last week. He opposes Perry on policy grounds (he calls the Texas governor a neocon and a crony capitalist) but also because he believes Perry is a family values hypocrite. The one problem: There's no evidence that Perry has had affairs, as Morrow alleges.
Robert Morrow, an Austin-based Paul backer and self-employed investor, bought the ad in the local alt weekly last week....
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13 Aug 2011

Why Mitt Romney was right about corporations

In an instant-classic flub at the Iowa State Fair this week, Mitt Romney proclaimed, "corporations are people, my friend." Romney, of course, was speaking in the context of tax policy, making the point that to raise taxes on corporations is to raise taxes on the owners -- people -- of that corporation.
In an instant-classic flub at the Iowa State Fair this week, Mitt Romney proclaimed, "corporations are people, my...
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31 Jul 2011

Planned Parenthood firebombed, right wing silent

Someone firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, late Tuesday night. Because it was so late, no one was hurt. The clinic doesn't provide abortions, but there had been protesters there earlier that day anyway. You might've read about the news on Twitter or on a liberal blog. Probably not in a newspaper or on a cable new channel. Definitely not at any right-wing blogs. Which is a bit odd, actually, considering how much attention terrorist attacks generally get in this country.
Someone firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, late Tuesday night. Because it was so late, no one...
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20 Jul 2011

How to sell Big Oil on the Web

The oil giant Chevron, with $6.2 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2011, has for the past year been engaged in an intense branding campaign called "We Agree," which presents Chevron as a model corporate citizen and steward of the environment. Trying to soften the public image of a company without actually changing destructive business practices is known as "greenwashing" -- and Chevron has been at it for a while.
The oil giant Chevron, with $6.2 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2011, has for the past year been engaged in...
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19 Jul 2011

Paul Ryan and the art of whiny resentment

I don't think that Paul Ryan is running for president; I really don't think he'll ever run for president. But if he does, he sure has the resentment thing down cold. I wrote about Ryan and the budget process today over at Greg's place, from an interview that Ryan did over at NRO, and I didn't complain about the other stuff, but it really is awful:
I don't think that Paul Ryan is running for president; I really don't think he'll ever run for president. But if he...
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10 May 2011

Conservatives’ plea: Let’s all support Pawlenty now

Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, would most likely be the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidency right now, if John McCain had selected him instead of that Alaska wingnut who looked good on paper. Pawlenty is sort of the perfect running mate, in that he is bland, malleable, and guaranteed not to overshadow or outshine the top of the ticket.
Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, would most likely be the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the...
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9 May 2011

What Tea Partyers ignore about the Founders

Anything but a lost, halcyon epoch of unity and consensus, our founding era saw deep, harsh oppositions among Americans over what kind of society our independence from England was meant to bring about. Like today, the direst political oppositions devolved on the economy, and on proper uses of public and private finance. From the North Carolina Regulation of the 1760s to the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s, Americans struggled mightily with other Americans over economic issues.
Anything but a lost, halcyon epoch of unity and consensus, our founding era saw deep, harsh oppositions among Americans...
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9 May 2011

Michelle Rhee joins Scott Walker at school voucher group’s “policy summit”

The "American Federation for Children" -- a right-wing "education reform" organization founded and funded by religious right activist multimillionaire Betsy DeVos (former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan and sister of Blackwater founder Eirk Prince) and dedicated to electing state legislators who'll fund Christian schools with taxpayer money and crush public employees' unions -- is having a party in Washington, D.C., today, and they have invited Republican governors who have been working to fix education forever by firing all the greedy teachers and letting profit-seeking private interests manage the schools more "efficiently."
The "American Federation for Children" -- a right-wing "education reform" organization founded and funded by religious...
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4 May 2011

No, Sarah Palin, Obama won’t release OBL photos

President Obama is right not to release photographic "proof" that Osama bin Laden is dead. There's absolutely no upside: The lunatic fringe will still doubt the evidence, and gruesome corpse photos run the risk of creating a backlash against bin Laden's killing that doesn't exist so far.
President Obama is right not to release photographic "proof" that Osama bin Laden is dead. There's absolutely no upside:...
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21 Apr 2011

Time puts Michelle Rhee on a list, ignores her critics and scandals

The ongoing uncritical liberal establishment's deification of former Washington DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee has finally, belatedly met some pushback -- notably from Diane Ravitch -- but there is no hint of that in the piece commemorating her entry into the 2011 Time 100, one of their many, endless lists of "the most influential people in the world."
The ongoing uncritical liberal establishment's deification of former Washington DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee has...
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18 Apr 2011

Ross Douthat’s racial paranoia

Ross Douthat's New York Times column is often such a dizzying combination of purported rigorous logic and proud conservative bias as to be unreadable. Every once in a while, though, he gives you a scary but important peek into the conservative psyche.
Ross Douthat's New York Times column is often such a dizzying combination of purported rigorous logic and proud...
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18 Apr 2011

Roger Ailes brings big-city paranoia to small-town newspaper

Here's some free career advice for all you struggling reporters out there: If Roger Ailes buys the small-town community newspaper you work for, seek employment elsewhere. Because, as Gawker's John Cook and Hamilton Nolan report today, he might have News Corp. security officers tail you and conduct surveillance on your lunches.
Here's some free career advice for all you struggling reporters out there: If Roger Ailes buys the small-town community...
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15 Apr 2011

Rick Santorum disowns campaign slogan when told a gay liberal poet came up with it

Long-ago Sen. Rick Santorum is running for president, despite his "Google problem," and fresh out of the gate he has already invited more mockery. His campaign website features the slogan, "Fighting to Make America America Again" (by which I think he means that America is not America when there's a Muslim in charge).
Long-ago Sen. Rick Santorum is running for president, despite his "Google problem," and fresh out of the gate he has...
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15 Apr 2011

Christie: Take the bat out on female legislator

In a news conference about pension policy Thursday, the New Jersey governor demanded the press go after one of his Democratic critics, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg. Or, as Christie put it: "Can you guys please take the bat out on her for once?"
In a news conference about pension policy Thursday, the New Jersey governor demanded the press go after one of his...
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14 Apr 2011

The secret militarism of Obama’s defense spending cuts

One of the major headlines to emerge from President Obama's debt reduction plan is his proposed $40-billion-a-year cut to defense. For progressives in particular, this is one of the good initiatives in a mixed bag. But most of the Washington press corps has missed the underlying story: The administration's spending cuts would actually make defense an even larger part of the overall discretionary budget.
One of the major headlines to emerge from President Obama's debt reduction plan is his proposed $40-billion-a-year cut...
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4 Apr 2011

What would public broadcasting do with $178 billion?

Apparently Americans want to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because they think 5% of the federal budget goes to NPR and PBS. That was the median guess in a CNN poll released Friday. If that were true, Talking Points Memo noted, that would mean the CPB would receive $178 billion a year from the government. (And that's not even counting what they get from Archer Daniels Midland and viewers like you.)
Apparently Americans want to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because they think 5% of the federal budget...
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4 Apr 2011

The most uncounted cost of Endless War

Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham yesterday both suggested that Congress take unspecified though formal action against the Koran-burning by Florida preacher Terry Jones, which triggered days of violence this week by angry Muslims in Afghanistan. Graham in particular -- using the "but" that is the hallmark of all enemies of the First Amendment -- said: "Free speech is a great idea, but we re in a war."
Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham yesterday both suggested that Congress take unspecified though formal action against the...
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4 Apr 2011

Forget the Tea Party: The left is waking up

You know those experiences that serve as a living example of something you re studying or reading about? You learn a word s meaning, and then you hear it everywhere; the natural angling of your bike as you turn around the corner makes sense of a physics lesson, or your grief over a loss is reflected in an assigned novel.
You know those experiences that serve as a living example of something you re studying or reading about? You learn a...
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30 Mar 2011

Grim reality of Libya war starts to set in

...But perhaps the bigger takeaway from this new focus on the arming question is that the U.S. bombing campaign has failed -- so far -- to swiftly hand a total victory to the rebels over the Gadhafi regime.
...But perhaps the bigger takeaway from this new focus on the arming question is that the U.S. bombing campaign has...
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29 Mar 2011

Paranoid Michelle Rhee blames her "enemies" for cheating report

Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero because while working for the public she combined corporatist policy with open contempt for the public. An ostensible Democrat, she now advises Republican governors on how best to battle the nefarious teachers' unions, which, in her reckoning, are almost solely responsible for poor student performance. Her solutions to the "education crisis" mostly involve the privatization of public schools. Her qualifications, besides having all the currently fashionable opinions, are her successes as head of Washington's schools. Test scores increased during her tenure! In some places, they increased dramatically!
Former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, champion of "education reform," is a right-wing folk hero...
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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23 Mar 2011

John McCain’s Libya amnesia

The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
The senator, who met with Moammar Gadhafi in 2009, now complains the dictator has "American blood on his hands"
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21 Mar 2011

Sarah Palin goes to Israel, snubs influential GOP group

Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has been a fairly predictable exercise. She said hawkish things and told high-ranking members of the Likud party that they should "stop apologizing" and she'll dine with Benjamin Netanyahu and she has repeatedly announced that she's on Team Jewish People when it comes to the various disagreements in the region.
Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has...
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