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Joe Miller Campaign Funded By God, K Street

This story has been updatedAlaska Republican Joe Miller is telling his supporters that he is refusing to take corporate and out-of-state money, yet the Tea-Party-backed candidate has hired a prominent K Street fundraiser to help with his bid for the Se… Continue reading

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The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters

Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They’re more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were… Continue reading

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Sara Gruen, ‘Water For Elephants’ Author On The Inspiration For ‘Ape House’

On an unusually hot spring day, Panbanisha and I sat on a blanket on the grass near a woodedarea. In front of us were plates of cookies she’d selected and pots of tea she’d brewed (althoughMore… Continue reading

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A Pyrrhic Victory for Demagoguery

God is now speaking directly to Glenn Beck, who claims the date for his Washington, D.C. rally is divine providence. Nobody should be surprised because Beck by inference has compared himself to Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus. Beck will be out to … Continue reading

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A Cold Cup of Tea

The Tea Party has it all wrong for this simple reason:America’s descent into calamity, corruption and godlessness didn’t begin with the Obama administration. It began at least eight years earlier, when George W. Bush moved into the White House draggin… Continue reading

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NRA Snubs Harry Reid: Lessons Learned?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) must be wondering what else he needed to do to make his pandering to the gun lobby pay off politically. In a recent statement, the National Rifle Association has made it official. Despite Reid’s recent recor… Continue reading

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It’s Just Not Cricket

The English in their empire conquests to India and Pakistan brought the game of cricket in their armory, best understood as complicated. With the pavilion hosting tea, the sound of the leather ball on the willow bat soon spread across the verdant lands… Continue reading

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Pregnant Demon Demands Sandwiches At Glenn Beck Rally (PHOTO)

We didn’t attend Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally last Saturday, but by the looks of things it was pretty epic. Thousands gathered on the Mall to hear Beck speak, but many others gathered to protest the rally in their own way. After perusing the ph… Continue reading

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Would It Be Worse If McCain Were President?

For anyone with the wits to realize that the lunatics now run the asylum the Republican Party has become, it is axiomatic that, no matter how awful Democrats may be, Republicans are worse. The evidence is overwhelming and it mounts day by day. But do… Continue reading

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Reading the Pictures: Glenn Luther King Hit it Out of the Park in DC

Not only did the visual media fall-in-line with Glenn Beck’s co-opting of Martin Luther King’s “Dream” speech and rally at the Washington Monument, it produced this gorgeous, yet radically paradoxical photo erasing how much the Tea Party is not just ov… Continue reading

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