What the what?  Yeah… you read that right!  Eight year olds, dude. Ok… so here’s my theory:  Back in the 1930′s this woman’s barefoot, toothless “relations” loaded up some mule-drawn jalopy and migrated to California during the dust bowl (as many did at that time – kinda like the Clampett’s except no Texas Tea or [...]

Newt Gingrich, a preseason 2012 Republican contender, likes to present himself as an ideas man. He is a former college professor and the architect of the ideology-driven 1994 Republican Revolution. But for all his references to Camus and Clausewitz, there’s another side to the former House speaker—a verbal bomb-thrower who’s never met a political crisis he couldn’t analogize to the annexation of the Sudetenland.

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This story is a repost from Care2.com. When Hans Zeiger — a Republican candidate for the state of Washington’s House of Representatives — isn’t condemning the public school system in his state for being “polluted with the filth of moral relativism that the typical public high school graduate moves into the world devoid of character, [...]

This story is a repost from RawStory.com. Breaking: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington calls for FEC and criminal investigation into Christine O’Donnell Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell made a point of telling the audience at a candidate forum Thursday night that her “faith has matured” and that her statements from the late [...]

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Another damaging past statement from Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell was revealed on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time” last night. Maher played a clip from an episode of his previous show “Politically Incorrect” in which O’Donnell said she “dabbled into witchcraft.” From Think Progress: I dabbled into [...]

This story is a repost from TalkingPointsMemo.com. Christine O’Donnell won the Republican nomination for senator in Delaware tonight, and Rachel Maddow wasted no time showing the footage she obtained of O’Donnell’s 1996 appearance on MTV’s “Sex In The 90s” TV show. O’Donnell, it seems, is opposed to masturbation, and considers looking at pornography akin to [...]

This story is a repost from WashingtonPost.com. There are times when I flirt with the notion that the country would be better off with divided government. If Republicans took control, say, of the House, there would be pressure on both parties to behave more responsibly. The GOP would be pushed to stop carping and posturing, [...]

This story is a repost from Slate.com. Barack Obama’s redecoration of the Oval Office includes a nice personal touch: a carpet ringed with favorite quotations from Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, both Presidents Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. The King quote, in particular, has become a kind of emblem for him: “The arc of [...]

This story is a repost from TruthOut.org. For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU’s July report “Establishing the New Normal” is not a heartening read. After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried out under the Bush administration – promises to protect privacy, to end government-sanctioned torture and rendition programs and to [...]