Tag Archives: James O’Keefe

Competing versions of the “war on women” narrative

While I’ve been persuaded by the likes of Chris Hedges that there are organizations more deserving of my financial support that MoveOn, every so often the organization does something that I think warrants attention. Today, I happened across a little video that they just released, featuring women reading some of the more reprehensible Republican quotes […]

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CPAC and Occupy…. Anything that makes Andrew Breitbart go this fucking nuts, has to be good

The big Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just wrapped up in DC. After a few days of speeches, in which each of the Republican presidential candidates tried to prove that he, and not his rivals, was the rightful heir to the sainted Reagan mantle, Romney end up on top, with 38 percent of the straw […]

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Weiner, acknowledging mistakes, gushes apologetically

I had higher hopes for my Weiner. A few days ago, when the penis-posting rumors first started flying about Anthony Weiner – one of my favorite Congressmen – I was tempted to post something here about how he’d been set up by scumbag, bottom-feeding Republican infotainment purveyor Andrew Breitbart. That was, for many of us […]

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National Public Radio under attack and in jeopardy

By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. […]

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Can anyone be the Assistant Attorney General of Michigan?

For those of you not in the great state of Michigan, it looks as though our Assistant Attorney General, a guy by the name of Andrew Shirvell, has been caught in the act of cyber bullying. It would seem that Shirvell, under the pseudonym, “Concerned Michigan Alumnus,” has spent these past several months lashing out […]

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