In the last day or so I've been seeing stories (like this one from The Independent) and TV segments on a disturbing new effort by GOPers.  Anti-abortion people are exactly what those two words indicate.  They ARE zealots.  Calling...
 “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.” (Gen. George Patton) The Not-At-All Distinguished Senator from the state of Alabama...
Oh, man. There is naive, there is tone deaf, there is oblivious, and then there is Nikki Haley. She takes the cake. Haley appeared on Maria Bartiromo's show and they talked about abortion. And here are Haley's glad tidings....
The issue of legal abortion is a thorny one, and one reason is that the issue has become so politicized. Conservatives hate it, and liberals love it, pure and simple. But just as simple is the fact that both justice and...
A lot of voters turned out in the August heat for this election, an "uncharacteristically high number," in fact, according to the New York Times. Once again, the Republican party is getting the message loud and clear that people...
This is what happens when you let the imbeciles go to the mall for a field trip. With asylum credit cards. The next thing you know, your Amex bill rivals the GDP of Saudi Arabia. This Mel Brooks version of A Nightmare...
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville wouldn't be a Senator had he not spent nine years (pretty successful ones) as head coach of the Auburn Tigers.   The only better "qualification" he could  have had would have been a successful stint as...
I have written previously about how, after more than a decade of gerrymander success, the state GOP legislatures have become drunk with power. They no longer feel answerable to their own constituents, since they have gerrymandered themselves to a...
Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line And never was that more true than ion the 50 years since the Roe v Wade decision from the SCOTUS. The GOP's most rabid, most motivated, single issue voting bloc was the far right...
This is starting to piss me off. Did you ever notice that nobody in mainstream media bothers to cover, say, the National Quilting Society's national convention, yet every time you have a bunch of refried Jesus wheezers get together in a...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

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