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How about a gun for everybody?
Gun permits? We don't need no stinkin' permits! How about letting everybody have a gun. Everybody! But if they screw up with it and kill somebody, they get murdered, too! How about that? That's how the platform of Basil Marceaux, a Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee, leads off and it gets more bizarre from [...]
How about a gun for everybody?
Gun permits? We don't need no stinkin' permits! How about letting everybody have a gun. Everybody! But if they screw up with it and kill somebody, they get murdered, too! How about that? That's how the platform of Basil Marceaux, a Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee, leads off and it gets more bizarre from [...]
Breitbart vs. Mike Tyson … er, Dyson!
A blast from the past, gang:
On the March 16, 2009, cablecast of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Michael Eric Dyson and Andrew (“I’m Not a Republican”) Breitbart try to school each other on the truth about racial code words, “the black studies crowd” and Rush Limbaugh’s hangup about black men who have power —- [...]
Headless bodies, brainless politics
Has Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer failed to let facts get in the way of a good anti-immigrant rant?
Her recent assertion in a TV interview that illegal immigrants were on a rampage, beheading people in the Arizona desert would be awful, if it were true. Unfortunately evidence shows it is not.
Defending her state’s controversial show-me-your-papers immigration [...]
OMG! Rachel Maddow, high school hottie
Holy cutie-cake, Batman! Who’s that California surfer-sorority-sister looking blonde in that yearbook shot? Could it be… Rachel Maddow?!!Yes, for those of us who know my liberal MSNBC friend, colleague and show host by her trademark short, brunette butch-cut, her old 1990 Castro Valley, Calif., High School yearbook photo comes as quite a revelation.
Dug [...]
Smile, yur in a candid TEA shirt
A Facebook friend in Lexington, Ky., sent along this holiday greeting, photographed at a local TEA Party event.
"I asked him, 'so you're a racist, eh?'," she writes. "He replied, 'No. That's what YOUR president said I was'."
"Oh. Are you from another country?" she says she responded. "Maybe an illegal alien? Cuz if not, [...]
Smile, yur in a candid TEA shirt
A Facebook friend in Lexington, Ky., sent along this holiday greeting, photographed at a local TEA Party event.
"I asked him, 'so you're a racist, eh?'," she writes. "He replied, 'No. That's what YOUR president said I was'."
"Oh. Are you from another country?" she says she responded. "Maybe an illegal alien? Cuz if not, [...]
Smile, yur in a candid TEA shirt
A Facebook friend in Lexington, Ky., sent along this holiday greeting, photographed at a local TEA Party event.
"I asked him, 'so you're a racist, eh?'," she writes. "He replied, 'No. That's what YOUR president said I was'."
"Oh. Are you from another country?" she says she responded. "Maybe an illegal alien? Cuz if not, [...]
Smile, yur in a candid TEA shirt
A Facebook friend in Lexington, Ky., sent along this holiday greeting, photographed at a local TEA Party event.
"I asked him, 'so you're a racist, eh?'," she writes. "He replied, 'No. That's what YOUR president said I was'."
"Oh. Are you from another country?" she says she responded. "Maybe an illegal alien? Cuz if not, [...]
Taxes, slavery and a Tea Party rebel
Has Abe Lincoln been hijacked by the Confederacy? You might think so, judging by the latest over-the-top TV ad put out by Alabama congressional candidate Rick Barber.
Barber's a long-shot Tea Party-affiliated candidate in a July 13 runoff against Martha Roby to take on Democratic Rep. Rep. Bobby Bright in Alabama's second congressional district.
But he's made [...]