July 31, 2009

Interview with The Pakistani Spectator

I recently did an interview with a progressive Pakistani site about blogging, etc. The interview can be found here.

July 31, 2009

Jon Stewart on Health Care Reform- Pt. 2 (With “M.D.” John Hodgman)

Every American becomes a congressman and sick people move to a leper resort — all paid for by your kidneys.

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July 31, 2009

Jon Stewart Discusses Health Care Reform- Pt. 1

Republican scare tactics filter into the real debate on health care reform, taking their toll on President Obama’s sales pitch.
HILARIOUS!

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July 31, 2009

Morning Reads- July 31, 2009

-The New Republic: The Jokester
A unique profile of Senator Ben Nelson. Discusses in detail some of his funnier pranks, as well as his odd position within the Democratic Party.
-Politico (Glenn Thrush): 58% of GOP not sure/doubt Obama born in US
What do we take from this? 
-Politico: Birchers to birthers: a GOP quandary
I discussed this yesterday here, [...]

July 30, 2009

An Amendment to Kill Medicare?

Anthony Weiner is like the Superman/Clark Kent of the House- half wonkish and half seriously aggressive. Who else would consider using legislation as an offensive weapon?

July 30, 2009

Conservatives Have Fought Right-Wing Conspiracies Before: William F. Buckley, Jr. and The John Birch Society.

This is an interesting excerpt from a March 2008 article written by William F. Buckley, Jr. for Commentary Magazine. In it, Buckley discusses a strategy meeting he attended in early 1962 with a couple of other Conservative strategists and Senator Barry Goldwater. The main topic? How to deal with Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.

July 30, 2009

Rachel Maddow Discusses the Deathers and Other Anti-Reform Conspiracies

Here’s what I now know about the proposed government takeover of health care:

1. The government wants to kill my grandparents. They will be “put on a list and forced to die early”….by being sent out into the ocean on ice floes…

2. The government is going to use the takeover of health care to promote abortion. The more abortions people have the more the government benefits because (fill in the blank).

July 30, 2009

Stephen Colbert Takes a Tough Look at Racism (and explains why nobody wants to talk about it)

 

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July 30, 2009

Morning Reads- July 30, 2009

-Politico: Pete Sessions’s blimp flies into storm
Pete Sessions, earmark hater, just loves those blimps….This could potentially throw Republicans off their stride on bashing Obama’s economic plan for vast overspending…for about 3 seconds.
-Providence Journal: Republicans Looking Crazy on Health Care
Another look at the so-called Deathers.
-The American Prospect: The 10 Dumbest Arguments Against Health-Care Reform
-WSJ: Obama’s Great [...]

July 29, 2009

The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore Says Henry Louis Gates “Ecstatic” To Be Profiled

The caption: As a distinguished black studies professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is ecstatic to finally feel oppressed. 
I can’t top that…

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July 29, 2009

Deathers: The New Birthers

Christopher Beam writes on Slate.com:
First came the “birthers.” Now, as President Obama makes a final push for health care reform, we have the deathers.
Many senior citizens are concerned that health care reform would mean cuts to Medicare. That much was clear at a town-hall meeting hosted Tuesday by the American Association of Retired Persons at [...]

July 29, 2009

National Review Online Editorial Board Debunks the Birther Claims

This article by the editorial board at NRO is absolutely worth reading. It simultaneously bashes Obama and liberals while doing a great job of trying to put the Birthers to rest. NRO has spoken: Obama was born in the U.S.A.

July 29, 2009

Freshman Senators From Colorado Get Smacked Down by Columbine Father for Support of Thune Gun Amendment

As reported by Glenn Thrush at Politico:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The father of a Columbine massacre victim says he’s “disgusted” with Colorado’s freshman Democratic senators for voting in favor of the failed Thune Amendment, which would have allowed licensed owners to transport concealed firearms across state lines.
Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was murdered a decade ago at the Littleton, [...]

July 29, 2009

Maddow and O’Reilly Agree on Birthers!?

You know what they say about politics and bedfellows (VIDEOS)…

July 29, 2009

Stephen Colbert on the Birthers!- Pt. 2 (ORLY TAITZ IS ON THE SHOW!!)

Orly Taitz actually comes on the show to be interviewed!