From the NYT’s long piece yesterday about Mitt Romney’s tenure as a Mormon “lay leader”: Mormons oppose abortion, except in extreme cases like rape, incest or where the life of the woman is in danger—and require that church elders be consulted. In 1990, Exponent II, a Mormon feminist magazine that Ms. Dushku, the Suffolk University […]
Election 2012
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Romney Represents the Defeat of the Tea Party
Conservatives and liberals alike have been passing around this Frum Forum post. It’s full of very good points: Conservatives and Tea Partiers were supposed to put an end to people like Romney. They had convinced themselves that the era of the Bush 41-style Republican was over and done with, and that the GOP would now […]
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Newt Gingrich Is an Asshole. And a Fascist.
One thing that came off again and again during last night’s Republican debate is that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is an asshole, but perhaps never so much as when he called for imprisoning Democratic Rep. Barney Frank and former Sen. Chris Dodd: “If you want to put people in jail, you ought to start […]
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Tonight’s Republican Debate: Who Will the Tea Baggers “Boo” Next?
So far, the crowds at this fall’s Republican presidential primary debates have booed a gay soldier, applauded the hypothetical death of a man without health insurance, cheered Texas’s high number of executions, and freaked out over HPV vaccination programs. TONIGHT AT 5 P.M. PST, during the Washington Post/Bloomberg Republican Presidential Debate, we’ll get to see […]
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Bachmann Promises to Haaaaaaaaaaaaate Gays SO MUCH and Looooooooooooooove Fetuses SO MUCH If You’ll Just Vote For Her!
Bachmann doubles down on hate.
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People Want Populist Democrats
Gee, you think that people would like Democrat politicians to take a stand against banks? Politico noticed that Barack Obama received his first accolades in a while on domestic issues on Sunday: With an offhand attack on Bank of America’s plans to impose a $5 debit card fee, President Barack Obama may have stumbled into […]
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The Other Max Running For Mayor Says He’ll Make it Official Today
In an email announcement that contained the BIGGEST HEADSHOT I’VE EVER SEEN (seriously, razor bumps and all!), college student Max Bauske promised he would make official sometime today what he said yesterday: He’s going to make a quixotic run for Portland mayor. As of 11:30 this morning, however, the city auditor’s office said it had […]
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Mayoral Race Max-es Out
Did you know? Max Brumm is no longer the only Max running for mayor. Or the only community college student under 25 whose last name starts with the letter “B.” Meet 22-year-old Max Max Bauske! While his slogan is a little snarky, it looks like Bauske is serious about his campaign. Here’s his take on […]
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Hank Williams Jr. Compares Obama to Hitler
Yesterday on Fox & Friends (they have friends?), country music faux patriot Hank Williams Jr.—the acclaimed author of the Monday Night Football theme—was valiantly trying to say something smart about the current GOP race… aaaaaand the best he could do was to compare Obama to Hitler. (Watch all of this if you can, because it’s […]
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Right Wing Continues to Try to Tie Barack Obama to Black Panthers
Professional piece of shit Andrew Breitbart says he’s seen photographic proof tying Barack Obama to the Black Panthers: New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007. The photographs, captured from a […]