Red State bans "birthers"

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Saturday February 13, 2010 · 7:09 PM PST

2010/02/13 · 19:09

I don't want to link directly to the fetid cesspool of right-wing thought, but DailyKos readers should be aware that yesterday afternoon, Erick Erickson officially banned birthers from Red State.

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Friday July 10, 2009 · 7:06 AM PDT

2009/07/10 · 07:06

Even when GOP pols get caught with their proverbial pants down, GOP party "leadership" (such as it is these days) doesn't hold their own accountable.

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Monday July 06, 2009 · 8:23 AM PDT

2009/07/06 · 08:23

The GOP is in the wilderness, and looking for new leadership -- hopefully from younger, presumably more tolerant pols. But the July 4th holiday weekend saw yet another example of the tired formula: GOP + new media = racism on display.

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Monday June 22, 2009 · 11:11 AM PDT

2009/06/22 · 11:11

With the recent events in Iran, the world has witnessed the importance of electronic communication in the front line of the struggle for democracy. There is a need for action to pressure the western computer telecommunications industries which make electronic surveillance possible. On-line censorship needs to be an issue in western trade agreements with repressive governments, such as China and Iran.

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Monday June 15, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/06/15 · 12:59

GOP operatives should really keep their racist officials away from the intertubes. There's been another outbreak of internet broadcasting of GOP racism.

Join me below the fold for another day of watching the GOP recede into becoming a backwater regional party.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 10:57 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 10:57

When my husband and I voted in northeast Ohio in the '04 presidential election, we waited in line--outside in the rain--for 4 1/2 hours to vote! If our young children hadn't been in school that day, we wouldn't have been able to vote. We've seen what a bad case scenario can look like on Election Day. (Especially when aided and abetted by then-Ohio Sec'y of State, GOP Ken Blackwell, who was hell-bent on supporting Bush and suppressing the Ohio Dem vote, but that's another diary entry.)

At the risk of sounding like a Chicken Little--but informed by my trying, 4 1/2-hour marathon experience at the polls 4 years ago--here are some suggestions for helping things go better this time.

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