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It’s Time We Turn Off Fox News

Shoq — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:47:25 +0000

Enough is Enough

We have endured this pretense that Fox News is a legitimate news organization for too long. It's not. It's the 24 hour propaganda channel of the Republican party, and Washington should marginalize and stigmatize it until it withers and dies. (More on this in a later post).

The first step is for all real

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The 24 Kinds of Libertarian

Shoq — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:01:17 +0000

This cartoon is just so brilliantly wrong, it's completely right. I wish every grammar school in the country walked students through each type of selfish ignorance depicted here.

Maybe then more kids would grow up knowing that most of what they enjoy came from the efforts (and taxes) of their parents and grandparents, and their parents

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Whose side is the Republican Party on?

Shoq — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:57:08 +0000

So whose side is the Republican Party on? Hint: It's not yours.

New ad to be run in heavy rotation. Hat tip Daily Kos:Barbara Morrill

RT @shoq: So whose side is the Republican Party on? Hint: Not yours. #p2 #tcot #gop #teaparty

The Obama Achievements Project

Shoq — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:23:25 +0000

We're a Crowd making a list

As the midterm elections approach, there is a need for a list of Obama Achievements that progressives can use for voter and media education efforts. The administration has had far more significant accomplishments than the media have given much notice to, and better information can and will help

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George Carlin Recast As A Right Wing Mouthpiece

Shoq — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:52:57 +0000

I just watched…

one my favorite George Carlin clips, after laughing my ass off at the introduction to it on this site, which is another in a long line Alex Jones/Prison Planet conspiracy subsets of the insanity soiling and spoiling this nation.

Such manipulation is getting more common with each passing week, and this one

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Politics of The Libertarian Mob

Shoq — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:20:49 +0000

The Tea Party Jacobins — Mark Lilla, NY Times Book Review

A new strain of populism is metastasizing before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses that have unsettled American society for half a century now. Anarchistic like the Sixties, selfish like the Eighties, contradicting neither, it is estranged, aimless, and as juvenile as
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The Death Of Accountability in America

Shoq — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:55:46 +0000

The death of American accountability – John McQuaid

But it’s increasingly clear that our “systems” are simultaneously both too complex and not sophisticated enough to deal with the problems at hand. The disappearance of clear-cut mechanisms of accountability is just the most obvious sign.

I have been railing about the collapse of accountability for years. This

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You Don’t Know Jack (Kevorkian), But You Will

Shoq — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:03:54 +0000

Jack_Kevorkian is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime."

I've Waiting Years 20 Years For

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Fox is the Lupus Of News ~ Jon Stewart Takes Down Bernie Goldberg

Shoq — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:03:53 +0000

"Bernie Goldberg Fires Back"

The Daily Show 4/20/2010 — Length: 11:54

Jon "apologizes" for criticizing Bernie Goldberg and Fox News, but it's only because they're a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization. Do NOT shut this off half way thru. The real punchline comes after the lengthy setup.

Please retweet this with the green

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Dave Weigel on C-Span; Discussing What I’m Calling “Trio-Conservatism

Shoq — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:23:44 +0000

This is a wonderful interview, and like most of the Washington Journal good stuff, it was buried in the early morning segment when only we hard core @cspanWJ watchers even saw it.

You really need to spend some time with this segment. He covers a lot of ground, and he knows his subject(s) really well. He's

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