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A skeleton of the Veteran’s Day post I meant to write
Something kept getting in my eye. Smile, Smile, Smile Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Yesterday’s Mail; the casualties (typed small) And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul. Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned; For, said the paper, “When this war is done The…
The future of the Republican party?
This guy and the McCain/Palin rally mobs are all that will be left of the GOP if they don’t remake their party ASAP. Back in October Michigan Messenger uncovered the fact that at least two Republican precinct delegates were tied to white supremists. One of them was Randy Gray of…
Obama’s win really does usher in a new era
The post-election coverage of Obama’s startling blow out of a win—besides the nonsense attempts to pressure him into being conservative—was mostly about the coalition that he built that grabbed more college-educated white people than Democrats traditionally get. But while the campaign deserves mountains of credit for doing such an amazing…
Dear Diary
Ann Althouse finally does the retrospective we’ve all been waiting for: how her months of support for John McCain eventually became tepid and incoherent support for Barack Obama. The aftermath of September 11th saw the fully-fledged legitimization of what was affectionately referred to as “even-the” liberalism. Inspired by Mickey Kaus’…
The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
UPDATE: the openly gay president of People for the American Way, Kathryn Kolbert, has released a statement. It’s below the fold. You could see this coming, and this is what I’m talking about when you ignore the elephant in the room. Rod McCullom of Rod 2.0 blogs reports on the…
Decidedly Racial Obama Goes Racial
Barack Obama just called himself a “mutt” during his press conference. I’m going to love the shit out of the next eight years.…
Republicans meet to perform autopsy on its rotting corpse
Republicans heavy-hitters across the party’s currently tiny political spectrum are going to go into retreat to do an autopsy on this election and their branding. Do they really have to think all that hard about what went wrong? The meeting in Shenandoah Valley is the first of scores of inquests…
Obama 3:16 Says I Just Organized Your Ass
Jennifer Rubin has thirty reasons (thirty!) that McCain didn’t win, which can be boiled down to one: despite his constant flirtation with the idea, he never pulled a full wingnut. Let’s start with error number one that McCain made: Not pursuing the Reverend Wright connection, as an issue of judgment…
Ballot initiatives provide a wake up call to the LGBT community about race
I didn’t think this would happen in my lifetime. We did it – we jettisoned the right-wing and its failed policies out into deep space and made history in the process. We did it with a diverse coalition of citizens – people who look like the America of the future,…
My friends, an ass-whupping
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance,…
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