Posting History for tjlabs
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| An Era of Good Feeling.... Call me a Pollyanna if you wish. (I've been called much worse.) But I think the Pooh-Bahs of Punditry and various other political prognosticators are missing the full import of the psychological ... |
tjlabs | 05/03/2011 | 2 | - | - | 16 |
| When you're young and gay.... You never think about getting old. Never. And once again this proves that there really is very little difference between gays and straights. The young people of any sexual orientation all live as if ... |
tjlabs | 04/05/2011 | 7 | 11 | - | 86 |
| Will Tyler Clementi's death change anything?.... Since the tragic suicide of college freshman Tyler Clementi after being publicly shamed and humiliated ... |
tjlabs | 10/09/2010 | 5 | 5 | - | 95 |
| The Bully's Pulpit.... The Shirley Sherrod fracas is just the latest high-volume, over-blown, misinterpreted, misrepresented, totally fake media frenzy to occur since before and since Barack Obama ran for and was elected ... |
tjlabs | 07/23/2010 | 6 | 3 | - | 20 |
| Palin really is crazy.... From www.heraldsun.com.au
Sarah Palin creates word controversy, compares herself to Shakespeare
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin defended her newly-created word today, then ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2010 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 37 |
| Erick Erickson makes me laugh so hard.... From www.politico.com
Just how 'political' is Glenn Beck?
Glenn Beck says there’s nothing political about the Aug. 28th rally in Washington he’s organizing with a ... |
tjlabs | 07/17/2010 | 13 | 16 | - | 57 |
| "Take back our country".... That's been one of the rallying cries of the so-called "Tea Party" movement which while claiming to be a grass roots uprising of angry voters is, in actuality, the banding together of the worst ... |
tjlabs | 05/21/2010 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 71 |
| Obama had Specter at "I love you"....(Updated) I found it singularly amusing watching the big talking heads on CNN and MSNBC last night offering their positively correct analysis of why Arlen Specter went down in defeat to Joe Sestak. I was ... |
tjlabs | 05/19/2010 | 125 | 32 | - | 58 |
| Spare change.... From www.politicsdaily.com
"Change you can believe in" on education, ... |
tjlabs | 04/24/2010 | 4 | - | - | 44 |
| "Christian" militias: In the Name of the Father.... From www.washingtonpost.com
The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" ... |
tjlabs | 03/30/2010 | 30 | 7 | - | 34 |
| Contortionists.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Congressional Republicans rallied Tea Party activists to oppose the health-care legislation on the verge of being approved by Congress even as party ... |
tjlabs | 03/22/2010 | 4 | 4 | - | 12 |
| It's not just the Senate that's "broken".... There are probably some truly noble-minded citizens in this country who have considered or will consider running for elective office on the municipal, state, or federal level with the sole purpose ... |
tjlabs | 03/03/2010 | 5 | - | - | 31 |
| Being gay in America today.... From Dante Atkins post yesterday.... |
tjlabs | 02/18/2010 | 47 | 24 | - | 204 |
| Always go for the quick and easy.... | tjlabs | 01/20/2010 | 1 | 1 | - | 13 |
| The GOP: "The Grifters' Own Party".... Anyone we know?
" A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, ... |
tjlabs | 01/17/2010 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| Of Meese and Men... Two biographical notes about Edwin Meese III :
As Reagan's chief of staff, Meese was instrumental in the decision to crack down ... |
tjlabs | 01/11/2010 | 11 | - | - | 30 |
| The Comity of Eras.... "Fast away the old year passes" as the old carol goes. And it is at this time of the year that my thoughts turn to family and friends who have left us over the years and the memories of them and the ... |
tjlabs | 12/30/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | 47 |
| Not with a bang, but a whimper.... From www.rollcall.com
Partisan Wars Erupt in Senate
Health Care Reform Races the Clock
As ... |
tjlabs | 12/17/2009 | 9 | 3 | - | 86 |
| The Bush Decade.... From www.washingtonpost.com
America's decade of dread
This decade began and ended in dread. It began with Wall Street -- the World Trade Center -- targeted for mass murder. It ... |
tjlabs | 12/16/2009 | 4 | 4 | - | 140 |
| Catholic bishops lobbying health care reform?.... From www.politico.com
The Roman Catholic bishops need more time. That is the recent word from Sen. Ben Nelson &... |
tjlabs | 12/08/2009 | 26 | 15 | - | 101 |
| Hell hath no fury like a Sarah scorned.... From open.salon.com
It does stand to reason that a woman with an ego as large as ... |
tjlabs | 11/20/2009 | 12 | 3 | - | 214 |
| The Great (Mental) Depression of '09.... From politicalwire.com
November 11, 2009
Pessimism Grows Among Americans
A ... |
tjlabs | 11/11/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 103 |
| Punditmania!!!...... Starting around 9:00PM last night, the pooh bahs and pashas of the media's punditocracy went into overdrive. Oddly enough, the pundits on the left saw the election outcome differently from their ... |
tjlabs | 11/04/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 100 |
| Sarah Palin: The Madame Defarge of the Right Wing.... For those of you who have never read Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities or have never seen any of the movies versions, one of the central characters in the book is the bitter, vengeful woman, ... |
tjlabs | 11/02/2009 | 29 | 15 | - | 105 |
| The GOP: "Screwing America Since 1968".... From www.rollcall.com
Unable to mount a filibuster on their own and calculating that Democrats are on track to ... |
tjlabs | 10/19/2009 | 15 | 3 | - | 48 |
| Is General McChrystal the new McArthur?.... From www.washingtonpost.com
A General Within Bounds
By Michael O'Hanlon
... |
tjlabs | 10/06/2009 | 50 | 10 | - | 303 |
| Douthat again.... From www.nytimes.com
However serious his doubts about escalation, Obama seems boxed in — by the thoroughness of McChrystal’s assessment and the military’s united ... |
tjlabs | 09/28/2009 | 17 | 3 | - | 19 |
| Who killed Bill Sparkman?..... From www.sfgate.com
Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky
When Bill ... |
tjlabs | 09/24/2009 | 39 | 20 | - | 79 |
| "I'll take 'Mission Failure' for $1000, Alex".... From www.washingtonpost.com
McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission ... |
tjlabs | 09/21/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | 4 |
| Dear Mr. President: No more Mr. Nice Guy.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
"Daily Kos" founder Markos Moulitsas warned President ... |
tjlabs | 09/09/2009 | 8 | 3 | - | 7 |
| A Cancer Threating America Itself.... From Bob Herbert writing in today's New York Times.
From www.nytimes.com
The wackiness is increasing, not ... |
tjlabs | 09/08/2009 | 8 | 9 | - | 10 |
| I Got Pawlenty of Nuthin'.... From www.politico.com
Tim Pawlenty foresees GOP surge if health plan is rejected
CHICAGO – Minnesota ... |
tjlabs | 08/15/2009 | 11 | 4 | - | 4 |
| Richard Cohen doesn't get it.... From www.washingtonpost.com
The Folly of Hate-Crime Laws
By Richard Cohen
... |
tjlabs | 08/04/2009 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 35 |
| Does this sound familiar?...Think Florida 2000.... From www.politico.com
Town halls gone wild
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, ... |
tjlabs | 07/31/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| Racism in 21st century America unmasked.... From tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Obama-Haters Becoming
... |
tjlabs | 07/28/2009 | 28 | 9 | - | 19 |
| Josh Marshall gets to the heart of the Gates matter.... From www.talkingpointsmemo.com
A police officer needs to be able to respond to a call about a ... |
tjlabs | 07/24/2009 | 54 | 32 | 2 | 25 |
| An Invitation to Senator John Thune of South Dakota.... From www.nytimes.com
On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on the latest assault on public safety in the name of gun ownership. Introduced as an amendment to the military&... |
tjlabs | 07/22/2009 | 12 | 3 | - | 120 |
| An old white (redundant) Republican walks into a bar.... Stop me if you've heard this one.
I was in the restaurant/bar biz for thirty years or so in both NYC and New Jersey. It is a truism that when you open your doors to the public you take on all comers. |
tjlabs | 07/15/2009 | 17 | 16 | - | 90 |
| When America ceased to be a democracy.... Yesterday's revelation that former Vice-president Dick Cheney ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold vital information from the legally authorized members of Congress regarding a super-... |
tjlabs | 07/12/2009 | 9 | 7 | - | 3 |
| Palin's New Life: It's Not Just About Money.... From www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Sarah Palin, says David Frum, "quit to cash in. Her admirers can excuse anything, but to the much larger audience of non-admirers, Palin will look a ... |
tjlabs | 07/09/2009 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 30 |
| Best new summer show?...The Republican Follies.... Upset with being perceived by a vast majority of Americans as obstructionists and anti-people, the Republican party has apparently decided that in order to recapture the hearts and minds of the ... |
tjlabs | 07/05/2009 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Stonewall and me...forty years on.... From www.politico.com
Obama called out on gay rights
During the ... |
tjlabs | 06/28/2009 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 197 |
| Pop Quiz: What's wrong with this opening paragraph?.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. ... |
tjlabs | 06/23/2009 | 22 | 4 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin: "I coulda been a contender".... From www.washingtonpost.com
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can ... |
tjlabs | 06/10/2009 | 30 | 3 | - | 8 |
| Frank Gaffney: Neocon A**hole Extraordinaire.... From www.washingtontimes.com
GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president?
By Frank J. |
tjlabs | 06/09/2009 | 28 | 9 | - | 21 |
| Newt & Huck: The New GOP God Squad Dynamic Duo.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
At an event in Virginia titled "Rediscovering God in ... |
tjlabs | 06/07/2009 | 27 | 3 | - | 10 |
| How dare Sonia Sotomayor make something of herself?.... From www.google.com
Debate over who Sotomayor is a sensitive one
By SHARON THEIMER – |
tjlabs | 05/29/2009 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| The GOP's Fatal Addiction.... They just don't get it.
From www.huffingtonpost.com
The White House hit back at Newt ... |
tjlabs | 05/28/2009 | 32 | 37 | 1 | 167 |
| Dick Cheney: The GOP's Miss Haversham.... For those of you who have never read Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" nor have seen the marvelous film version directed ... |
tjlabs | 05/21/2009 | 17 | 10 | 1 | - |
| William Donohue: Not so holier than Thou and Me.... From www.nytimes.com
William A. Donohue, the perennially indignant president of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/15/2009 | 15 | 4 | - | 3 |
| Sticks and Stones...And Torture, War, Death & Destruction.... From www.politico.com
A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an ... |
tjlabs | 05/13/2009 | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| I'm going to type very very slowly..... From www.weeklystandard.com
GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra is upping the stakes of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/08/2009 | 24 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Thus spake Oxycontin.... And the Great GOP God Limbo said unto his people:
From politicalticker.... |
tjlabs | 05/05/2009 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| Miss USA Loser Joins Oldest Profession.... From www.google.com:
Miss California to campaign against gay marriage
NEW ... |
tjlabs | 04/30/2009 | 91 | 9 | - | 30 |
| Life inside the Republican bunker.... Dan Bolt writing in today's Washington Post:
How much more can the Republicans take? |
tjlabs | 04/29/2009 | 79 | 15 | - | 22 |
| Suicide is painless.... Let's look at Barry Goldwater's comment from a different angle.
From www.politico.com
GOP base rejects calls to ... |
tjlabs | 04/26/2009 | 10 | 10 | - | - |
| Reductio ad absurdum.... Dick Cheney and his merry band of fellow sociopaths are very busy these days proclaiming from the rooftops or rather Fox News how the torture that was used on suspected terrorists was not torture ... |
tjlabs | 04/22/2009 | 23 | 2 | - | 1 |
| No more Abu Gharib-style scapegoating.... This time around, we should go right to the top.
From www.washingtonpost.... |
tjlabs | 04/17/2009 | 2 | 6 | - | 2 |
| Mopey Dick...We need to find Cheney a job.... The former veep has been rather grumpy of late and stories like this only add to the rise in his grumpiness. It seems to me he needs to find some sort of work to occupy his time. |
tjlabs | 04/14/2009 | 29 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Jindal balls, Jindal balls, Jindal all the way.... What's the problem, pal?
From www.huffingtonpost.com
Bobby Jindal Book Deal: Denies ... |
tjlabs | 04/13/2009 | 22 | 5 | - | - |
| Gingrich does his best Wicked Witch impersonation.... If the Repugs are wondering why they're in the crapper, they need look no farther than this little item. |
tjlabs | 04/12/2009 | 50 | 14 | - | 25 |
| Get a life: The Right's Gay Obsession.... From the NY Times:
Several groups that oppose same-sex marriage suggested Tuesday that the successive victories ... |
tjlabs | 04/08/2009 | 29 | 11 | - | 37 |
| Glenn Beck: FoxNews' In-House Terrorist.... The self-proclaimed "rodeo clown", Glenn Beck whose teary-eyed shtick and ultra-right wing fanatical rants and ravings have won him legions of ... |
tjlabs | 04/05/2009 | 28 | 9 | - | 19 |
| Karl Rove: How dare Obama exert his power.... The guru of the Mayberry Machiavellis , Karl Rove, is shocked...shocked that a president or his majority party would be brazen enough ... |
tjlabs | 04/02/2009 | 16 | 11 | - | 26 |
| Hey pal, can you spare some change?.... The Republican "Loyal Opposition" might want to take note.
From www.swamppolitics.... |
tjlabs | 03/24/2009 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Republican view of America...through the looking glass.... Funny stuff.
From www.politico.com
Three days after Barack Obama became president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch ... |
tjlabs | 03/23/2009 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| CNN & MSNBC Merge....Now "The Gossip Channel".... Sometimes I seem to be a little slow on the uptake. I mean it's not like this started last year or last month or last week. But the obsession du jour on the so-called cable news networks reached ... |
tjlabs | 03/21/2009 | 10 | 5 | - | 9 |
| The Republican trap.... We've seen this scenario before.
From www.politico.com
Some Republicans are calling for Timothy Geithner’s ... |
tjlabs | 03/19/2009 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Out of the mouths of knaves..... And what exactly does the following tell us?
From Josh Marshall:
Like you, I've been watching ... |
tjlabs | 03/16/2009 | 11 | 4 | - | 1 |
| As ye sow, so shall ye reap.... Of course, this may just be a Chicken Little story, but still....
From www.csmonitor.com
The coming evangelical ... |
tjlabs | 03/11/2009 | 13 | 6 | - | 15 |
| The fastest rising belief system in America: None.... The issues and questions these numbers raise challenge the very basis of the christianists claim of America as being "One nation, under God". |
tjlabs | 03/10/2009 | 48 | 10 | - | 16 |
| Frum the Right.... David Frum is persona non grata within his own party. Here's why.
From www.newsweek.com
Why Rush is Wrong
Limbaugh is ... |
tjlabs | 03/08/2009 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Justice for Yoo and me?.... This is wrong on so many levels.
from www.politico.com
Obama Justice Dept. will defend Yoo
The Obama ... |
tjlabs | 03/07/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| Signed, sealed, and delivered.... David Frum , in one single paragraph, sums up the state and future of the Republican party. And it ain't good.
... |
tjlabs | 03/06/2009 | 4 | - | - | 9 |
| Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...Update.... On February 3, I wrote this diary "Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...." In that piece I once again raised the specter of ... |
tjlabs | 03/01/2009 | 33 | 25 | - | 25 |
| Hate Groups Increasing Dramatically.... From the Southern Poverty Law Center:
The number of hate groups operating in the United States ... |
tjlabs | 02/28/2009 | 50 | 14 | - | 25 |
| Senator McCain's short term memory problems.... Perhaps Senator McCain needs to increase his vitamin B intake which some believe helps slow memory loss in the aged. |
tjlabs | 02/25/2009 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| Bobby Jindal's To-Do List.... Just like that Jolly Old Elf, Santa Claus, Jindal, the 2012 presidential hopeful (you know that for a fact 'cause he told David Gregory on MTP that he absolutely positively without question intends ... |
tjlabs | 02/24/2009 | 21 | 3 | - | - |
| Slum(ming) GOP Millionaires.... I just love it when the multi-millionaires in the Repugnant party lecture us little people on financial responsibility. Over the last few weeks, while hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens ... |
tjlabs | 02/23/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| The Santelli Solution.... In the wake of his angry privileged rich white male rant on CNBC the other day, Rick Santelli has risen from the rightly deserved relative obscurity he has been enjoying there since giving up his ... |
tjlabs | 02/21/2009 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
| Kondensed Krauthammer.... from www.washingtonpost.com
Obama's Supine Diplomacy
By Charles ... |
tjlabs | 02/20/2009 | 34 | 5 | - | 20 |
| The No-Nothing Party.... Deep within the bowels of Congress, there is a heavily fortified area reserved exclusively for the use of Republican senators and congresspersons. Built with secret funds during the Bush/Cheney reign, |
tjlabs | 02/17/2009 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Heard of Chicago Deep Dish Pizza? Well here's some Deep Sh*t Toast.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Burris Discloses Fundraising ... |
tjlabs | 02/15/2009 | 53 | 3 | - | 19 |
| On (Political) Death and Dying.... From www.cbsnews.com
CBS Poll: Americans Optimistic About Obama
Seventy-Nine Percent Say ... |
tjlabs | 02/14/2009 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| "That Party Has Been Disconnected".... I am of two minds on the subject of the Republicans in Congress. On the one, I'm delighted by their full-frontal balls-out obstructionist response to Obama's attempt to save the country's economy ... |
tjlabs | 02/11/2009 | 22 | 9 | - | - |
| Byron York...Those slap-happy Repubs!.... Words (almost) fail me.
From www.dcexaminer.com
The ... |
tjlabs | 02/09/2009 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Fatwad Limbaugh's Cracker Twin Brother.... From www.politico.com
GOP govs to Senate: Hold the line
Several of the GOP's most prominent governors blasted the stimulus plan making its way through Congress Thursday, ... |
tjlabs | 02/06/2009 | 7 | 11 | - | - |
| Republicans' Viagra Stimulus Fantasy.... Democrats Try Trickle-Down Economics
By KARL ROVE
Democrats are betting that Americans now embrace ... |
tjlabs | 02/05/2009 | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| Why the Traditional Media are Whores...Chapter 47.... Having spent the previous eight years drinking the Bush KoolAid, wagging their little butts every time Bush & Co, gave them a pat on the head, and generally acting as stenographers for the most ... |
tjlabs | 02/04/2009 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Obama and the Generals...Be Warned.... Be afraid. Be very afraid.
From digbysblog.blogspot.com
CENTCOM commander Gen. ... |
tjlabs | 02/03/2009 | 43 | 17 | 1 | 89 |
| Just Bad Journalism (Pardon the expression).... Greg Miller is guilty of one of two things: a) he is functionally illiterate; or, b) he's baiting the wingnuts. Of course it could be a combination of the two. Here's what he wrote in today'... |
tjlabs | 02/01/2009 | 8 | 10 | - | 2 |
| Beautiful Historic House in Downtown, D.C...Real Fixer-Upper.... Think of the White House as America's largest and most prestigious property as having been on the market for the last two years. The occupant during that time was eager to close the deal and get out ... |
tjlabs | 01/30/2009 | 3 | 9 | - | - |
| Dear Mr. President, Don't waste your breath.... I was about to write a post about this just before this piece popped up in my Google Reader.
From www.... |
tjlabs | 01/29/2009 | 33 | 12 | - | 2 |
| If I had a magic wand.... I would wave it over the Republicans in Congress and turn their bullshit into gold. That would solve our nation's economic crisis in one fell swoop. There would be enough money for universal health ... |
tjlabs | 01/26/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Boehner & Cantor...The Republicans' Batman & Robin.... Move over Barack and Michelle, there's another new power couple in Washington these days. |
tjlabs | 01/25/2009 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Wingnuttia's Great White Hope.... The citizens of Wingnuttia have been all a-twitter for the last two days over the possibility that the flubbing of the presidential oath by Chief Justice John Roberts (accidentally on purpose they ... |
tjlabs | 01/22/2009 | 26 | 5 | - | 1 |
| Brother, Can You Spare Some Hope?.... I was talking yesterday after Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States with an elderly friend of mine. My friend, who will turn 86 in a few months, had spent the day with his ... |
tjlabs | 01/21/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The Other Inaugural Bawl.... This was too good to pass up.
From www.americanthinker.com
Bush and the Bush-Haters
There is one thing certain to go through Barack Obama's mind during the inauguration: at ... |
tjlabs | 01/19/2009 | 8 | 5 | - | - |
| Suspended Animation.... Since late Friday afternoon, the country has been in a sort of twilight sleep...not fully awake and not fully asleep. It is that moment when we awaken in the middle of the night, groggy, disoriented, |
tjlabs | 01/18/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Change is palpable.... I have been watching CNN for the last hour or so made less than usually unbearable by the presence of Anderson Cooper and Roland Martin.
What has struck me is the undertone of joyousness in their ... |
tjlabs | 01/17/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | - |