NRA is Fox News

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Wednesday January 02, 2013 · 2:47 PM PST

2013/01/02 · 14:47

We’ve all heard that even the NRA’s members support important, if limited, controls on guns and ammo. And yet it is painfully obvious that the NRA opposes them. And that it will continue to do so. Where does this inconsistency come from? And how do we fix it?

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Sunday July 22, 2012 · 1:44 PM PDT

2012/07/22 · 13:44

New awareness-raising strategy: Stand on the roads outside Mitt Romney rallies with signs that say “You didn’t build this road! We all did!”. This would work especially well outside a mega-fundraiser like that one in the Hamptons.

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Which impossible place would be great to do this?

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Which impossible place would be great to do this?

Beside work applicants who went to public schools

0 votes

On business contracts, which are protected by the legal system

0 votes

On medicines researched in public universities

0 votes

On the Hoover Dam, in appropiately sized letters

0 votes

On every flush into a public sewer system

1 vote

Other...

0 votes

One Way to Mitt’s Base

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Wednesday May 09, 2012 · 11:36 AM PDT

2012/05/09 · 11:36

We all know that Mitt has been flip-flopping like a fish on a dock, but there is the question of how to make him pay the costs of that. There may be many ways, but here’s a fun one: Pretend he hasn’t been doing it, and make him own it.

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What’s your top political flip-flop?

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What’s your top political flip-flop?

New Coke

2 votes

“I’mma let you finish…

1 vote

Other (use comments)

0 votes

What’s the EPA Up To Now?

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Friday April 13, 2012 · 9:27 AM PDT

2012/04/13 · 09:27

The EPA just did something weird, which seems small but could really matter. They suddenly dropped a grant program for $20 million for “green chemistry” studies, just before the application deadline. Yes, $20M isn’t a lot of money overall, but green chemistry is one of the most important things you haven’t heard of for improving human health and environmental safety. And the mysterious behavior implies something more critical may be going on.

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What new chemical process would you like to see?

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What new chemical process would you like to see?

One that made pecan pie taste like leftover pecan pie immediately

1 vote

One that could help all those authoritatively-minded conservatives just chill

3 votes

One that gave the mainstream media a spine

7 votes

Other (use comments)

0 votes

Today’s Bad Dream

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Wednesday April 11, 2012 · 11:48 AM PDT

2012/04/11 · 11:48

The Buffett Rule is wending its way to a Congress near you. The Common Wisdom™ is that it will fail to pass, thus transforming into a political club with which to beat the Republicans all upside the head. And nothing could be more just, should it happen, than the Republicans being brained by their own lack of brains.

But…

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What Would Speaker Boehner Demand?

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What Would Speaker Boehner Demand?

Bush tax cuts forever

2 votes

Bush hair cuts for everyone

1 vote

No-run mascara

0 votes

No-run stockings

1 vote

Other (use comments)

0 votes

Today’s List of Prominent Sluts

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Friday March 02, 2012 · 8:20 AM PST

2012/03/02 · 08:20

A woman who uses birth control is a slut. Rush says so about one woman, and who are we to doubt Rush? So if using full-time birth control makes her a slut, there is no reason to think that any other woman who uses birth control isn’t also a slut under Rush's Principle of Slut-ness.

So let us consider Laura Bush. In her breeding years she only popped out two kids. Maybe the former First Couple only had sex twice, or miraculously managed the rhythm method, or she and W are barely fertile…

… or they used birth control. I’m willing to bet very long odds on the birth control because most women who don’t use birth control yet have sex over many years have more than 2 or 3 kids.

So Laura Bush is almost certainly a slut. Even if she was faithful she was a slut. After all, the woman Rush is labeling might faithfully be in a long-term relationship, for all he knows. Yet that doesn’t save her from slut-itude.

So now that we know that any birth control user — well, any female user — is a slut, and that any long-term married woman who has few children is very likely to have used birth control, we can give you today’s list of sluts:

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Wednesday February 08, 2012 · 9:33 AM PST

2012/02/08 · 09:33

I know it’s late in the outrage cycle for the whole PP vs. Komen thing, but I’ve been thinking about the accusation made by some people that Planned Parenthood is political. It certainly gets involved in political debates, but what does it mean to say it’s “political”?

This is usually stated by the pro-life people, and is explicitly stated by those defending Komen’s decision, including by Karen Handel in this interview.

But that’s just bullspin.

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Monday November 28, 2011 · 11:30 AM PST

2011/11/28 · 11:30

I’m totally sick of hearing the term “job creators” tossed around by the right. You know who the real job creator is? A person with a paycheck.

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What is your favorite job to create for the current Republican presidential crop?

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What is your favorite job to create for the current Republican presidential crop?

Gingrich as Speaker to Hamsters

2 votes

Bachmann as Yappy Lap Dog Extraordinaire

0 votes

Perry as Drunk-Uncle-in-Chief

3 votes

Santorum as Rick Santorum

1 vote

Romney as Shadow Minister of Truth

2 votes

Ron Paul as Head of the Federal Reservations for Dinner

1 vote

Cain as Chief Food Taster

3 votes

Other [put in comments]

0 votes

Huntsman Could Win

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Saturday May 21, 2011 · 11:19 AM PDT

2011/05/21 · 11:19

John Huntsman is running for President in the G.O.P. As a moderate Republican you might think in the knife fight of our current politics, he’s lost before he’s started. But if with a little luck and some guts he could win it because, in one major way, he is the best positioned candidate.

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What would you bet on Huntsman’s chances?

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What would you bet on Huntsman’s chances?

My house

10 votes

Your house

20 votes

Two goldfish and a half-eaten sandwich

33 votes

Chances for what?

37 votes

The Speech Obama Should Give Us

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Tuesday December 07, 2010 · 9:18 AM PST

2010/12/07 · 09:18

Good evening. I come to you tonight to lay out the scene of a major struggle that will take place over the next days and weeks. It is not a battle I would choose, but we are not always given the field of our choice.

I have always preferred the path of cooperation and compromise with my political opponents, assuming that, while we have different views and priorities, we all want the country to succeed more than we want partisan advantage. Yet over the first years of my presidency I have been saddened by the Republican leadership, time after time, putting partisan gamesmanship ahead of reasonable compromise.

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When it comes to speech writing I should...

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When it comes to speech writing I should...

keep my day job (if I have one)

15 votes

quit my day job (after getting one) and move to Washington to start a new career

77 votes

be cut off by my ISP

3 votes

be cut off by Special Operations forces

0 votes

be exiled to Elba

12 votes

The Republican Cult: The Tea Party Explained

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Monday September 20, 2010 · 2:29 PM PDT

2010/09/20 · 14:29

What happens when the world does not end on the day predicted by the Wise Leader? When our alien forbearers do not arrive to transport Earth to the 17th Level of Effervescent Insight? You would think that followers would be disillusioned and abandon their leaders and beliefs. And some are. But very often, most are reinforced in their beliefs, and approach them with renewed vigor. Weird, huh? But also weirdly similar to our current political situation.

Why didn't the Republican loss in 2006, followed by a trouncing in 2008, turn them away from their failed and rejected belief system? One idea seems more useful to me every day: Cult behavior.

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Where do you hope the aliens will take us?

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Where do you hope the aliens will take us?

Big Rock Candy Mountain

7 votes

Ronny's Rousing, Rip-Snortin' Revels of Rationality

4 votes

Anywhere but here, frankly

7 votes

Socialist, Wimpy, Failing France

3 votes

Actual France

21 votes

Don't care, as long as it involves anal probes

10 votes

Other [use the comments section]

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The stench smells right

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Tuesday August 03, 2010 · 9:24 AM PDT

2010/08/03 · 09:24

The Charlie Rangel scandal is said to raise the stench of a corrupt congress, for which people may hold the Democrats responsible. So we're told. In fact, this is the stench of a system working as it should be.

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