Heh. Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. At 6:30 every morning, he leads an adoring cast of young, conservative members of Congress through exercise sessions in front of a televised trainer barking out orders. For fun, Mr. Ryan noodles …
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Just a little savage
I don’t think this is offensive at all. There’s lots of crazy stuff in the bible that everyone ignores. Why NOT ignore the anti-gay stuff too? Dan Savage: People often point out that they can’t help it, they can’t help with the anti-gay bullying, because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there …
Into the mystic
I’m fascinated by Watergate. I don’t think there’s anyway the establishment media would go after a Republican White House that way today. The story would be broken by a free weekly type publication and then everyone would ignore it. Serious people would agree that this was just “criminalizing politics”, that you should just keep on …
Navigating an obstacle course, one voter at a time
Good: Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaign’s hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election. In Wisconsin, where a new state law requires those registering voters to …
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Midday Open Thready Thing
According to the Entire Right Blogothingy, Twitter is apparently the new LAMESTREAM MEDIA (lightning, scary organ music, moose falling from the sky): Also, The Entire Right Blogothingy consists entirely of Dana Loesch. Open thread.
the art of the impossible
I really just don’t get our foreign policy debates. They’re confused to the point of being schizophrenic. Down is up. Left is right. Take this post by Max Fisher about Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident lawyer who the Chinese government hates for saying accurate things about the terribly repressive Chinese government. Things like pointing out that …
Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away
Apparently, Rachel Maddow really served Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Alex Castellanos on Meet the Press yesterday but I made the mistake of hitting play at the start of the video and caught this: DAVID GREGORY: […] And Hillary Rosen, here you are. This issue is not going away. And neither are you. HILARY ROSEN: Neither …