Sugar Land Tea Parties

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 5:11 AM PDT

2009/04/16 · 05:11

For those interested in catching all the ado about Tea Parties, I've got some live footage from local Wingnut Heaven, the district of dethroned GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the city of Sugar Land.

Meet the current Congressman, Pete Olsen, bemoan how higher taxes will result in "less money in [sic] college savings accounts and food budgets of the American Family". That's right, Obama is going to tax you till you starve. :-p

You'll get to hear favorite wingnut talking points like "Tax and Spend More" and "if I stacked up $3.7 Trillion dollars..." So join me, below the fold.

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 10:07

The US Government just purchased the world's biggest insurance company, the world's biggest mortgage lender, and one of the world's biggest investment banks over the course of a few months.

The Democratic Party platforms call for universal health care coverage, affordable housing for all Americans, and easily accessible funding for higher education. Are we holding all the pieces necessary to make this happen?

Just a thought.

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 4:04 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 16:04

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Lee Kaplan is a giant douche

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 6:54 PM PDT

2006/08/09 · 18:54

The scene was a familiar one to activists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Sproul Plaza on the U.C. Berkeley campus was awash April 9 in the red, green, black, and white of the Palestinian flag, and the blue and white of the Israeli flag. Students wearing kaffiyehs milled about, as did students in kippot.
But there was a new element at this demonstration: A few Jewish students with fake red explosives tied around their waists were posing as suicide bombers.
''This was special for this demonstration,'' said Lee Kaplan, an East Bay-based activist with the national group Dafka, who outfitted a few students with the fake explosives as he spoke, calling out, ''I need a few more suicide bombers!''

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Enter Lee Kaplan, an investigative journalist and contributor for FrontPage Magazine and head organizer of DAFKA or "In Your Face", less a pro-Isreal support group than an anti-Palestine smear machine.

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Texas Academy of Sciences and Doctor Pianka recap.

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Sunday May 07, 2006 · 11:16 PM PDT

2006/05/07 · 23:16

For those of you interested who followed the smear against UT Professor Dr. Eric Pianka, he's a transcript from the infamous speech. Read More

Hypothesis on the Shooting

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Monday February 13, 2006 · 3:40 PM PST

2006/02/13 · 15:40

Does anyone else but me think Cheney might have been drunk at the time? Or perhaps naked? Or money-laundering? Or hunting without a license? Or something?

I mean, they're trying really damn hard to cover this up. I can't help but think this was more than a silly accident, the way know one knows anything about anything at all.

College Free Press, Free No More

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Thursday August 04, 2005 · 1:43 PM PDT

2005/08/04 · 13:43

For those of you attending college campuses and reading college newspapers, prepare for a slight shift in what graces your front page.

Until now, college journalists enjoyed the same First Amendment freedoms as their professional counterparts. But in a case watched closely by press experts, the Seventh Circuit ruled, on June 20 in Hosty v. Carter, for defendant and Governors State University dean Patricia Carter, who in October 2000 told the printer for the school newspaper The Innovator (staffed by grad students and undergrads) not to run off any more issues until she had seen them first. (The paper had published stories about lackluster professors and what it felt was an antagonistic administration.) Editors Margaret Hosty and Jeni Porche, both graduate students at the Illinois public university at the time, and writer Steven Barba, said that amounted to unconstitutional censorship and took Carter to court.

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Elect Better Republicans

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 4:22 PM PDT

2005/07/13 · 16:22

In an ideal liberal world, this nation would wake up tommorrow and see the light. The Revolution would be upon us and we'd sweep the White House clean with recall elections and protests in the streets and flowers and rainbows and... Read More

When Red State doesn't love you anymore.

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Sunday July 10, 2005 · 1:22 PM PDT

2005/07/10 · 13:22

So here's a fun experience I had over at RedState.org

For those of you who visit the full spectrum of political blogs, I'm sure you'll count RedState as one of the less radical Republican blogs of our time. Sure they're still stuck on the "We're right because we were voted into office" mentality, but then if the Dems were on top, I'm sure Kos would be trumpeting the same tune. Still, they've never approved of nuking Mecca, and in the past they've been at least borderline reasonable with their blogging - admitting the Iraq war isn't a exactly a success, noting various Bush fobbles and Frist bold-faced lies, etc. This is good. Read More

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