Paul Ryan Hearts Poor People
My first ever DailyKos diary! * From a Republican National Committee email sent out this afternoon, this is one of the more outrageous quotes from a right-winger I've read recently (and I've heard or...
View ArticleThe Republican Primary: The Musical
My dad, Robert, who maintains a blog of his near-daily musings called Too Early To Call (because he often writes at an obscenely early hour), and has a passion for writing letters to the editor of the...
View ArticleAmerica Doesn't Have Too Many Teachers (It has too few jobs)
In an opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal, Andrew Coulson declares that "America Has Too Many Teachers," and he proposes getting rid of lots of them. This is just another terrible idea from...
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Hope. Change. Believe.
I find it incredibly amusing that the featured t-shirt on the front page of the Mitt Romney online store is simply a map of America with the word "Believe" ("mittromney.com" is in very fine print,...
View ArticleBetter Luck in Sochi, NBC
Ok, NBC. You took a lot of crap for your coverage of the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games. Sure, you spent a ton of money producing literally thousands of hours of event coverage. Your primetime...
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Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Cease and Desist?
As you might recall, the Romney-Ryan campaign has recently taken to using the phrase "Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. (America) Can't Lose!" as its semi-official slogan.As you might also have heard, this...
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Fun with Charts: Republicans' Rightward Drift
Fun wonkitudinal chartification of the day (original source: is.R()): The DW-Nominate scores of every single Congress since the founding of our union, charted by party.In short, DW-Nominate (not...
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A Few Hurricane Sandy Thoughts and Images
Click on the thumbnail image below to be taken to the gallery of full-size images (due to technical challenges, I could not get all the images embedded in this post).First, as a New Jersey resident, I...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg and the Opening Bell
Look, I've got no problem with Mayor Bloomberg ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and I realize how integral Wall Street is to the identity of New York City (as well as to...
View ArticleA Special Message for the Ladies on Election Day
Hey, ladies. This one goes out to you.More than 94-and-a-half years ago, my grandma, Dotsy, was born in New York City on a chilly January day in 1918. It would be another 2-and-a-half years, until...
View ArticleWith Proceeds from the Exxon Lawsuit, NJ Should Re-Establish Environmental...
While it is very upsetting, it doesn't come as much of a surprise that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration settled a decade-long, $8.9 billion pollution lawsuit against Exxon for $225...
View ArticleOn Veterans Day, Thoughts on my Grandpa
On this Veterans Day, I'm thinking of my Grandpa Mike.His entire extended family emigrated from just outside of Minsk (in what is now Belarus) to the United States in the decade or so before World War...
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