As Kay noted below, Professor Goddess Senator Elizabeth Warren’s address at Netroots Painfully Sincere-stock went over boffo, like gangbusters, sky rockets in flight, afternoon delight. This of course was to be expected because, for progressives, her words are like meth in a candy dish at a Very Palin Christmas. Of particular note was what some …
Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
What’s going on here?
Commenter rikrah posted this last night and I’ve been thinking about it since: On the morning of December 21, 2010, Lula Smart was preparing to leave for her job at Sears when she heard a firm knock at her front door. An array of law enforcement vehicles had amassed outside, and armed officers were fanning …
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
Has a sitting governor ever taken it upon herself to absolve her constituents of murder most foul? Maybe, but I don’t recall it. Here’s a remarkable statement by Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R-Edrum) in a column published yesterday that addressed the recent botched execution: “Justice was served. The people of Oklahoma do not have blood …
Mary Fallin Can’t Even Murder A Man Without Fucking It Up
McALESTER, Okla. —An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the state Department of Corrections said. Director Robert Patton said inmate Clayton Lockett died Tuesday after all three drugs were administered. Patton halted Lockett’s execution about 20 minutes after the …
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Isn’t It Amazing What You Can Accomplish When You Don’t Let the Nation Get in Your Way?
Martin Longman asks this question: Here’s a question. Is the current situation in which the Republicans are systematically trying to limit how many people can vote (and the Democrats are trying to make it easier for people to vote) a natural byproduct of America’s two-party system? In other words, would it really ever be in the interests …
Inequality Kills. Policy Drives Inequality. Elections Matter
Annie Lowrey in The New York Times today: Fairfax is a place of the haves, and McDowell of the have-nots. Just outside of Washington, fat government contracts and a growing technology sector buoy the median household income in Fairfax County up to $107,000, one of the highest in the nation. McDowell, with the decline of …
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Yup. Holder Goes There. (About Damn Time Too)
Here’s Eric Holder on the systematic elimination of political rights from millions of Americans: “It is unwise, it is unjust, and it is not in keeping with our democratic values.” [Via TPM] And just who might be disproportionately represented among those barred from giving their consent to their governing? African-Americans represent more than a third of …
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