Month: May 2014

The Silence of the Crickets

WARNING: Do not tell your fundamentalist/creationist friends this news unless you want to watch their heads explode from all the cognitive dissonance. It seems that crickets, the noisy little buggers you hear at night throughout...

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This is Not Leadership

This is Exhibit A on why this country is quickly being turned into an Idiocracy by the GOP: House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he’s “not qualified to debate the science over climate change” while...

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Is That Horrible Man Speaking Again?

It’s an enduring stain on the reputation and standing of our country that nothing that Dick Cheney did as vice-president has been deemed a crime worthy of prosecution. As Charles Pierce pointed out yesterday, the war in...

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As Goes New York, So Goes the Nation

Alec MacGillis helpfully explains that: …New York is one of only a handful [of states] in the country with “fusion” laws that allow a candidate to appear on the ballot on the line of more than one political...

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