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On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who we noted that during his military service, had to be court-martialed in 2004...
by republicinsanity
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Ex-Navy SEAL, Eli Crane, is also the CEO of the Arizona-based company, Bottle Breacher. He’s also been featured on Shark Tank and is also in U.S. Senator Martha McSally’s (R. AZ) latest re-election ad. Now here’s something you may not know: What the ad...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Sep 30, 2020 at 07:13 PM PDT
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This is the legal landscape now before the man who must be identified as the attorney general of the United States: The unanimous consensus of the American intelligence community , the findings of ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Oct 27, 2019 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Perhaps the most unnerving moment on the Sunday talk shows happened when Liz Cheney suggested that the text exchanges between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were treasonous. This wasn’t just some conspiracy peddler talking. This was the number-three...
by Darrell Lucus
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on Mon May 27, 2019 at 03:09 PM PDT
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Welcome to the 737th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing Rick Saccone, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and two-time loser in attempts to run for Congress. Saccone’s...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Mar 10, 2019 at 07:59 AM PDT
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a human rights commission that reports to King Salman of Saudi Arabia has interviewed prominent women’s rights activists being held in prisons by the Saudi government and has collected accusations of various...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Dec 19, 2018 at 11:24 AM PST
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from New York’s 2nd Congressional District, Peter King, a repeated fear-monger of practitioners of Islam in...
by republicinsanity
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on Fri Sep 28, 2018 at 04:34 PM PDT
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In a September 3, 2018 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Brett Kavanaugh won’t be pawn of Trump, predicts GOP stalwart John Yoo,” Yoo, a former Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration and...
by stonehenge
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on Wed Sep 05, 2018 at 08:04 AM PDT
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When Gina Haspel was appointed by Donald Trump to be the new director of the CIA, it was already known that she had been part of that agency’s “extraordinary rendition” program. That was a program where suspected terrorists where ferried to “black...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 06:21 AM PDT
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump gave full-throated support for resurrecting the Bush administration’s regime of torture for terror detainees. But Trump’s brand of ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Aug 12, 2018 at 12:15 PM PDT
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It was in July of 2014, and then on this date in both 2016, and 2017, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of the sitting U.S. House Representative from Wyoming’s At-Large Congressional District, Liz Cheney, the carpet-bagging...
by republicinsanity
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on Tue Jun 26, 2018 at 04:56 AM PDT
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When it comes to the culpability for the dismal state of American politics and the accelerating erosion of our governing institutions, failure has a thousand fathers. At the top of the list of the ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Jun 03, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Congratulations to the primary challengers of the Senate Democrats who voted for Haspel’s confirmation.
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri May 18, 2018 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Arguably, more female and younger voters vote Left of Center, and to varying degrees, desire to center America on the central ideals of the Gettysburg Address, Voting Rights Act before gutted by Supreme Court and, on our most emancipated days, the...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon May 14, 2018 at 02:37 PM PDT
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Most of the talk on the tubes has centered around Thomas McInerney’s outrageous suggestion that John McCain’s ordeal in Vietnam actually proved that torture works. But believe it or not, a Trumpkin may have thrown up an even worse smear than that....
by Darrell Lucus
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on Thu May 10, 2018 at 05:23 PM PDT
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Warning dear readers that I’ve been sick and I’m plumb wore out, so this diary will be briefer and more lightly sourced than it should be; I just want to put a placemark in my 16-year research into our nation’s post-9/11 treatment of detainees, and...
by MsSpentyouth
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on Wed May 09, 2018 at 01:12 PM PDT
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I originally posted this on January 27, 2017.
UPDATE May 9, 2018:
I just found an article from The Guardian published Nov. 23, 2015, which I missed. The video is amazing. It’s the most chilling 45 seconds I've ever seen. He obviously relishes...
by HalBrown
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on Wed May 09, 2018 at 04:00 AM PDT
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said he would consider bringing back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse.” President Trump has nominated Gina Haspel to be Director of the CIA. Previously, he appointed her as Deputy Director. With...
by stonehenge
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on Sat Mar 17, 2018 at 08:52 AM PDT
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PA-18: Running Scared, GOP Super PAC Drops Another $1.5 Million To Prevent Another Embarrassing Loss Running scared:
The pro-House GOP Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC is prepping a $1.5 million TV campaign to save a vacant southwestern Pennsylvania seat.
The advertising campaign will begin on Friday and continue through the March 13...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Jan 22, 2018 at 08:56 AM PST
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On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from New York’s 2nd Congressional District, Peter King, a repeated fear-monger of practitioners of Islam in America,...
by republicinsanity
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on Thu Sep 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM PDT
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