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EU voices concern over Egyptian blogger’s death
CAIRO (AFP) – The European Union on Monday expressed concern over the death of a 28-year-old man allegedly killed at the hands of Egyptian police, and called for an impartial inquiry into the matter. “The EU Heads of Mission express their concern about the circumstances of the death of Khaled…
Colbert makes a point of not talking about Kagan’s sexuality
Blogs on the left and the right have questioned the sexuality of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick with hopes that the mainstream media would pick up the issue. Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert was tempted to fall into the trap Tuesday but instead made a point of repeatedly not talking…
Jon Stewart to Apple: ‘Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one’
Apple promised to save the world from conformity in its famous 1984 advertisement. Following the raid of a blogger that obtained a next generation iPhone, the technology company may now be turning into Big Brother. Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart says Microsoft was supposed to be “the evil one” but Apple…
Right-wing group fears Sen. Graham’s ‘stealth gayness’
According to the right-wing political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) needs to “make his homosexual lifestyle public knowledge in the interest of political integrity and national security.” Or, in the words of one blogger, Graham’s “stealth gayness” might pose a danger to us all.…
Tax Day ‘war’? Tea Partiers promise to meet anarchists with firepower
Update: Conservative blogger objects to being quoted as example of “Anarchist side,” asks for correction It’s war! Or at least that’s the word being employed by the right-wing blogosphere to describe anarchist groups’ plans to “crash” the Tea Party movement’s Tax Day demonstrations on April 15. “Anarchists plan war on…
Secret Service probing conservative blogger’s call for Obama assassination
The Secret Service is investigating a conservative critic of President Barack Obama who called for his assassination Sunday on Twitter. Self-described conservative blogger and writer Solomon Forell called for Obama’s assassination on the eve of House Democrats’ passage of health care reform. “We’ll surely get over a bullet 2 Barack…
Right-wing blogger: Reid should ‘pull the plug’ after wife’s injury
Two days after Reid's wife Landra was sent to the hospital with a broken neck and broken back after a car accident in which their daughter was also hurt, conservative blogger Dan Riehl took the golden opportunity of Reid's grief to say something morally abhorrent and politically reprehensible.…
GOP Rep. implies blacks were better off as slaves’
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is well known as a diehard opponent of abortion. He formerly served as the executive director of the Arizona branch of the Family Research Institute and has called President Obama an “enemy of humanity” because of his pro-choice stance. Franks may have gotten himself in more…
Under fire, Obama’s chief of staff calls liberal strategy ‘fucking retarded’
Conservatives have had it with President Barack Obama — in the latest Gallup poll, he earned just a 23 percent approval rating from Republican voters. Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, have the president’s back, awarding him an 88 percent backing. But liberal support — at least for the president’s chief of staff,…
Democrats consider dropping insurance ban on pre-existing conditions
Among the casualties of President Barack Obama’s healthcare agenda may be those who suffer from pre-existing medical conditions and can’t get insurance. Thought the ban on denying health insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions was going the way of the dodo? Not so fast. An astute blogger noted that the new…
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