3 days ago by blueskies

Update: Blueskygirl posted a slightly different version of this post on Daily Kos and has received some terrific comments there. Thanks everyone! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Teapartiers, do your know where your US Representative Ann Marie Buerkle, NY 25, is? Buerkle will be honored t ...

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3 days ago by Frederick McNulty

Decided to do a bit of rebranding today. Same old goodness, but with a new title. According to a new study, 1 in 10 doctors lie to their patients. While this may sound bad at first (and it is!), I can only assume that this number has been rapidly declining over the past few decades. Conservatives ar ...

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4 days ago by tytalus

…if anyone read my diaries, but I suspect this one might slip by unnoticed as usual. It has been a while, about a week, since I had much to say. Just moving from one small crisis to the next, as usual. Next up: the check engine light that appeared in my car the other day, when I have the means to ad ...

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4 days ago by Bill Frezza

[1]Image via Wikipedia Think there are two sides to the abortion debate? That’s what partisans would have you believe. Dividing the electorate into pro- and anti-abortion camps and setting them at each other’s throats may be a great way to energize the base while distracting from a record of economi ...

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5 days ago by Joe Leydon

Last night, I wondered how long it would take before some conservatives started complaining that Clint Eastwood's "Halftime in America" Super Bowl ad for Chrysler played too much like... like... well, like a thank-you shout-out to Barack Obama for the auto industry bailout. Well, as it turned out, M ...

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6 days ago by claycerny

Writing in Daily Kos, Laura Clawson reports on the growth of lock outs as a tool companies use to punish workers and unions. Many of these companies are profitable, which lets them wait out unions or move operations to lower wage locations. Clawson documents several examples of companies squeezing m ...

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8 days ago by Mitchell Plitnick

A few days ago, I wrote here about an article in the Washington Post that was clearly misleading to its readers. That was an example of one way media distortion happens. Today, we saw another, this time from the left side of the political spectrum. Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen for th ...

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10 days ago by Frederick McNulty

Christ, why is SNSD/Girls Generation (소녀시대) stuck in my head? The Hong Kong/mainland China divide is quite an interesting one to follow, even if it's quite sad. The Hartford Courant agrees with me - Republican East Haven Mayor Maturo should resign. France's constitutional council is slated to review ...

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11 days ago by emaycee

Thanks to the fine folks in that shithole known as Indiana, business writer (?) Tom Walsh and Mackinac Center apologist for the 1% Michael LaFaive think the republican controlled legislature here in Michigan should begin debating Right to Work for a Lot Less laws--and hell, the middle class hasn't b ...

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11 days ago by tytalus

Pie fighting is what they call the persistent battles that take place at Daily Kos between supporters of President Obama and his critics. My latest diary there is, technically, return fire; but I think it can stand for itself. It’s about last week’s State of the Union speech, and how to talk about t ...

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