How When We Demean the Presidency We Demean Ourselves

Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:37 PM EST

"Are people are already too ashamed to admit voting for such a @!$%# stain?"

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politics, meta

Americans Overwhelmingly Say Obama Bowing To Japanese Emperor Was Appropriate

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:41 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

Despite a lot of complaining by conservatives, the American people don't actually have any problem with President Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan -- and that's according to the new Fox News poll.

politics, barack-obama, japan, fox-news, polls, bow, emperor

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think ACORN Stole the 2008 Election

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:48 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it. My comments on what happened in thread #1 are here.

politics, barack-obama, republicans, gop, tea-party, 2008-election, doug-hoffman

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Husband of former high court justice O'Connor dies at 79

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:03 PM EST (CNN)

WASHINGTON (CNN) – John J. O'Connor III, the husband of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, died Wednesday, a statement from the court said. He was 79 and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

politics, supreme-court, obituary, sandra-day-oconnor, john-oconnor

Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust Signs

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:07 PM EST (YouTube)

Rep. Israel (D-NY) condemns Tea Party protest Holocaust signs, Nov. 6, 2009.

politics, democrats, new-york, tea-party, holocaust, michelle-bachmann, representative, steve-israel

GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:48 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform.

politics, tea-party, patriot-act, bachman

CBO Releases Numbers On House Health Care Bill

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:49 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

The bill will reduce the deficit by $104 billion over the first 10 years, according to the CBO. It will also cost $894 billion. NOTE this is the House bill; CBO has not yet scored the Senate's.

politics, health-care-reform, deficit, house-of-representatives, congressional-budget-office, cbo, deficit-reduction, u-s-congress

Every 12 Minutes an American Dies Because They Lack Health Insurace

Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:42 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.

politics, healthcare, health-insurance, reform

The Secret Life of Printers

Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:23 AM EDT

(Cross-posted to my blog.)

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history, printing, essays, bibliography, history-of-the-book, phillip-gaskell

The distracting benefits of ACORN hysteria

Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:34 PM EDT (Salon.com)

ACORN has received a grand total of $53 million in federal funds over the last 15 years -- an average of $3.5 million per year.

politics, fox-news, hypocrisy, acorn

Budget cuts: Free Library of Philadelphia to close

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:40 PM EDT (libfreelibrary.org)

All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009 All Free Library of Philadelphia Customers,

budgets, closure, public-libraries

The Cult of Ayn Rand

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:04 PM EDT (TNR's The Worst Political Sex Writing The New Republic)

Rand called her doctrine "Objectivism," and it eventually expanded well beyond politics and economics to psychology, culture, science (she considered the entire field of physics "corrupt"), and sundry other fields.

politics, ayn-rand, conservativism, jonathan-chait, wealthcare

Newt Gingrich Accidentally Names Porn Exec 'Entrepreneur Of The Year'

Seeded on Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:31 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Newt Gingrich's 527 group sent a letter to porn exec Allison Vivas Wednesday telling her she'd won their "Entrepreneur of the Year" award and inviting her to an "intimate event" with Gingrich.

porn, newt-gingrich

Sick and Wrong : How Washington is screwing up health care reform

Seeded on Wed Sep 9, 2009 4:11 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)

It's a situation that one would have thought would be sobering enough to snap Congress into real action for once.

politics, obama, washington, corruption, healthcare-reform, max-baucus

Sources: White House drafting health care bill

Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 3:55 PM EDT (CNN)

WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months.

politics, obama, president, healthcare-reform, whitehouse

Sex. And candy... Haribo wrappers come under fire for "pornography"

Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 9:55 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Simon Simpkins, a father of two, said he was shocked at the "pornographic" poses when he bought the sour candy for his children Benjamin and Ofelia. Mr Simpkins, of Pontefract, West Yorks, told The Sun: "The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter.

odd-news, candy, packaging, haribo, lemon-lime

Obama stands by belief a public option is viable | TPM News Pages

Seeded on Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:45 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

In an interview Thursday with Philadelphia-based radio talk show host Michael Smerconish, Obama said that "the press got excited and some folks on the left got a little excited" when the administration last weekend made statements indicating that a publicly-run health insurance o …

politics, president-obama, healthcare-reform, public-option

What Kind of "Immortality" Would You Choose? [POLL]

Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:46 PM EDT

A recently-seeded article on medical advances in forestalling the effects of aging got me thinking. It seems like it is only a matter of time before science figures out how to drastically increase our lifespans.

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health, aging, children, choices, immortality, thought-experiment

In America, crazy is a pre-existing condition

Seeded on Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:33 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill -- because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites.

politics, republicans, health-care-reform, civil-rights, nixon, tea-parties

CNBC orders up a Tea Party riot

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:34 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a Tea Party google group. Martin told the group: "We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of energy and lots of anger. This is for CNBC."

health-care-reform, cnbc, astroturf, tea-party-patriots

Alright Republicans, We Give Up.

Seeded on Sun Aug 9, 2009 11:25 AM EDT (Daily Kos)

these concessions having been made, I trust that we can now move forward with on health care reform with a broad, bipartisan consensus. Blue Dogs and Republicans, you can now rest easy knowing that the concerns of the town hall protesters have been met.

politics, tea-party, healthcare-reform, blue-dogs

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David Bomford Talks About the Forgers Who Used His Birth Certificate to Smear Obama

Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 3:01 PM EDT (washingtonindependent.com)

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged "Obama Kenyan birth certificate" that Orly Taitz posted online Sunday.

politics, birthers, south-australia, forgeries, fake-kenyan-birth-certificate

And Republicans are worried about 'rationing'?

Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 9:19 AM EDT (blogs.redding.com)

Shelly fought breast cancer and had been cancer-free nearly five years when, in April, she started feeling something like paralysis in the left side of her body. Medical tests showed the cancer had returned. It was on her back, one lung and, most alarming, in her brain.

politics, health-insurance, blue-cross

Kenyan Birth Certificate: PWNED!

Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 11:40 PM EDT (politijab.com)

It was a scanned image of a "Certified Copy of Registration of Birth" dated in 1964 for a David Jeffrey Bomford on a genealogy website for the Bomford family. Except that David Jeffrey Bomford wasn't born in Kenya, he was born in South Australia.

fake, birthers, birth-certificate, pwned, forgeries

Inside The Tea Partiers Anti-Health Care Organizing Campaign

Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 8:22 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

On Friday, July 24, a representative of Conservatives for Patients Rights--the anti-health care reform group run by Swift Boat message man Rick Scott--sent an email to a list serve (called the Tea Party Patriots Health Care Reform Committee) containing a spreadsheet that lists ov …

politics, tea-party, healthcare, astroturf, long-hot-summer, murder-by-spreadsheet-industry

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