Posting History for tjlabs
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| "Post hoc ergo propter hoc".... From www.washingtontimes.com
MURCHISON: Homicidal maniacs at large
For two or three ... |
tjlabs | 12/04/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| What if Whittington didn't mis-speak | tjlabs | 02/20/2006 | 12 | 3 | - | 18 |
| 9/11, the Flag, and me.... A new post... |
tjlabs | 06/19/2008 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| McCain: Out of Touch or Out of It?.... By now most Americans have heard about John McCain's inability to answer a question about how many homes he and his wife own. (Obamans say eight, McCainiacs say four). The overall response ... |
tjlabs | 08/22/2008 | 12 | 7 | - | 6 |
| Kristol Clear Vice Advice.... From www.nytimes.com
He could select the person he would really like to have by his side in the White House...the independent Democratic senator from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman. |
tjlabs | 08/25/2008 | 12 | - | - | - |
| Mercy Killing...Why McCain Chose Palin.... With what is turning out to be the greatest political miscalculation in the history of presidential elections, John McCain has pretty much handed the presidency to Barack Obama. His unfathomable ... |
tjlabs | 08/31/2008 | 12 | 2 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin and The New Double Standard.... Yesterday, I posited the thought that St. John the Insane's "pick whatever's left on the shelf as long as it has breasts" choice to be his running mate, Sarah Palin, would turn out to be the start ... |
tjlabs | 09/01/2008 | 12 | 3 | - | - |
| The People vs George W. Bush. Richard Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, et al.... Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Of course, it's pure fantasy. At least as far as 'W' is concerned. No matter what iron-clad proof which might be found, the American public just wouldn't have the ... |
tjlabs | 01/16/2009 | 12 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Thus spake Oxycontin.... And the Great GOP God Limbo said unto his people:
From politicalticker.... |
tjlabs | 05/05/2009 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| "I'll take 'Mission Failure' for $1000, Alex".... From www.washingtonpost.com
McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission ... |
tjlabs | 09/21/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | 4 |
| 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 |
| "Jumping the Shark" Didn't Save Happy Days Either... clipped from hotair.com
McCain: Lieberman and Graham are going to Georgia
posted at 7:31 pm on August 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
He’s (... |
tjlabs | 08/14/2008 | 11 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Senator John "NoBalls" McCain.... From abcnews.go.com
Obama said that the McCain campaign is making personal attacks "the centerpiece of the discussion in the ... |
tjlabs | 10/09/2008 | 11 | 2 | - | - |
| What's that awful smell?...The stink of desperation.... From www.boston.com
With Barack Obama anxious to take office, the public ... |
tjlabs | 12/31/2008 | 11 | 11 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| CNN....canned news network | tjlabs | 02/15/2005 | 10 | 3 | - | - |
| Tomorrow's Debate Is Too Little, Too Late for Palin.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
Jed Lewison
Why Sarah Palin Is A Better Debater Than ... |
tjlabs | 10/01/2008 | 10 | - | - | - |
| Three more states we won't be moving to.... In addition to the already thirty-odd states that currently discriminate in one form or another against gays and lesbians, as of last Tuesday we can add Arizona, Florida, and California. And Florida ... |
tjlabs | 11/06/2008 | 10 | 3 | - | - |
| Prop 8: "By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them".... From www.nytimes.com
Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage
SACRAMENTO &... |
tjlabs | 11/15/2008 | 10 | 7 | 1 | - |
| Bush has always had the "Sadim touch".... From www.boston.com
Homeland Security in disarray, |
tjlabs | 12/01/2008 | 10 | 6 | - | - |
| Mutual (Mental) Masturbation.... From www.politico.com
In scandal, risks for Obama
By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN |
12/10/08 7:50 AM EST
At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the ... |
tjlabs | 12/10/2008 | 10 | 3 | - | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| God and the Republicans... Charlie Black, Senator McSame's most senior advisor...
Senator McCain and his presidential campaign are publicly rejecting a statement by one of his top aides, Charles Black, that the ... |
tjlabs | 06/24/2008 | 9 | 6 | - | - |
| The extinction of the Fourth Estate....How we went from Edward R. Murrow to Bill O'Reilly.... "The term Fourth Estate refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues."
It can be argued that Charles Dickens was the ... |
tjlabs | 06/30/2008 | 9 | 7 | - | - |
| Little Sarah's Next Move.... From www.politico.com
Palin’s tricky path back
Palin, who captivated Americans with her meteoric rise ... |
tjlabs | 11/07/2008 | 9 | - | - | 3 |
| Truth...But No Consequences.... Baby-boomers like myself who matured during the 1960's were the cause of, and witness to, a true cultural revolution. That period in our nation's history has proven over time to be second only to ... |
tjlabs | 11/09/2008 | 9 | 4 | - | 1 |
| Byron York...Those slap-happy Repubs!.... Words (almost) fail me.
From www.dcexaminer.com
The ... |
tjlabs | 02/09/2009 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UPDATE: Obama-Troops Controversy.... Yesterday, Josh Marshall at TPM Election Central posted the following...
"We ... |
tjlabs | 07/26/2008 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| Queering the Deal.... When McCain & Co. realized that Hillary was not going to be the Democrat they would be running against but rather Barack Obama, they found themselves in a bit of a quandary. With reams and reams of ... |
tjlabs | 07/31/2008 | 8 | - | 1 | - |
| Kristol Gets It Wrong...Again.... In today's collection of inane and fallacial ramblings he calls his column, William Kristol, aka Billy Blood, decides that he has achieved the goal that philosophers and theologians have been ... |
tjlabs | 08/18/2008 | 8 | - | - | 2 |
| McCain's Stockholm Syndrome.... From Wikipedia:
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the ... |
tjlabs | 10/10/2008 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| November 5th: The Day After.... For the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about what new country we will wake up to on November 5th. If all the polls and indicators hold true, we will be seeing the face of President-Elect ... |
tjlabs | 10/29/2008 | 8 | 6 | - | 1 |
| Don we now our gay apparel: How Dickens' made me gay.... Ever since I was a kid I have been seasonally obsessed with the viewing of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Way back in the 1950's in New York City, one of the local TV stations, WPIX, had a ... |
tjlabs | 12/18/2008 | 8 | 1 | - | 7 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Joe Lieberman....He's a what? | tjlabs | 02/03/2005 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| Kristol the Klown expands operations.... Kristol the Klown, aka Billy Blood, unveiled his new line of home-made whines today. Cleverly working them into his usual laugh-filled column in today's NY Times (No link. Sorry I have strict rules ... |
tjlabs | 07/28/2008 | 7 | 4 | - | - |
| Blinded By The Rage...We Don't Have Four More Years To Wait From www.salon.com
Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama
Interesting result ... |
tjlabs | 08/26/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Bush to Receive 2008 Intrepid Freedom Award!.... Please swallow any liquids in your mouth before reading the following.
From www.newsday.... |
tjlabs | 11/11/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | 9 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| We Dems Need A Wake-Up Call...Badly.... One of the favorite rhetorical devices that candidates running for the presidency like to use is to compare themselves to some former president, usually of the same party, in hopes that whatever ... |
tjlabs | 08/21/2008 | 6 | 3 | - | 2 |
| The Real John McCain?.... From today's NY Times editorial:
The Real John McCain
On Thursday, Mr. McCain said he would ... |
tjlabs | 09/05/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| The latest neocon stooge in waiting...Sarah Palin.... Sarah Palin is just the latest show pony straight from the neocon stables of the Republican party. Bred not for agility or dexterity, she, like all the others before her, is merely for exhibition ... |
tjlabs | 09/07/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| Unleash the hounds!....The News Hounds.... For years now, the Republican party's Ministry of Propaganda headed by Karl Rove has managed to manipulate and control most of the U. S. media to such an extent that the flame of journalistic ... |
tjlabs | 09/13/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 |
| Palin & McCain: The Mom & Pop of Populists.... Over the course of the last few weeks we have heard the MSM and the various Poo-Bahs of punditry make reference to the fact that McCain and Palin are running a "populist" campaign for the presidency. |
tjlabs | 09/17/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Where There's a (George) Will...There's a Nay .... From www.washingtonpost.com
McCain Loses His Head
Under the pressure of the ... |
tjlabs | 09/23/2008 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| Senate Republicans' Scorched Earth Policy.... Over the next few days and weeks you will hear many explanations by the Senate Republicans for why they decided to torpedo the Big Three auto makers bail-out plan. They will include pieties and ... |
tjlabs | 12/12/2008 | 6 | 6 | - | 7 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Lieberman's short-lived smirk I think the senate Democrats who really and truly cannot abide the sanctimonious gut-churning Bush-loving pronouncements of Joe Lieberman have come to the following realization. They have read the ... |
tjlabs | 01/18/2007 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Shame on you, John Mccain.... If you look at John McCain's campaign commercials, both his previous ads and his current ones, most of them feature some visual or text reference to his time as a POW during the Viet Nam war. |
tjlabs | 07/08/2008 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| The Days of Whine and Poses.... From politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
McCain predicts 'spectacular' terror ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The Chernobyl of Presidential Campaigns.... There was another "Shock and Awe" attack in Iraq this week. But this time it was not the military might of the United States raining down upon the Iraqis but rather it was the political might of the ... |
tjlabs | 07/24/2008 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Whatsamatter?....Can't Ya Take A Joke?.... "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler, |
tjlabs | 08/03/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Rove's First Principle of Political Campaigning.... For years, the Republican party has proven extremely adept at winning elections of every type from the local school boards to the presidency of the United States. The key to their winning ways has ... |
tjlabs | 08/11/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| What if the candidate's name was Sam Palin?.... Let's pretend that the Republican vice-presidential candidate is named Sam Palin, a heretofore little-known former mayor of a small Podunk town in Alaska and then through an incredible stroke of ... |
tjlabs | 09/24/2008 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| The Adventures of Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah!.... Our story so far....
Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah have had a really busy week fighting villains who are trying to steal the government secrets that would ruin their attempt to save the ... |
tjlabs | 09/26/2008 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| From those wonderful folks who brought us Abu Gharib & Guantanamo.... From www.nytimes.com
Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes
WASHINGTON — The Labor ... |
tjlabs | 11/30/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | 4 |
| Crime and Bookdeals: Justice and Bush & Co..... The reactions to the continuing series of revelations concerning the immoral, extralegal, and probably criminal, actions, practices, activities, and policies of the Bush administration have ranged ... |
tjlabs | 01/11/2009 | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Omigod!...we missed it! | tjlabs | 02/24/2005 | 4 | - | 1 | - |
| McCain and the War Some thoughts on what drives John McCain. |
tjlabs | 05/28/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| America's other Cold War.... "Kerry with a tan." |
tjlabs | 06/28/2008 | 4 | 3 | - | 4 |
| Good times...Bush's fond memories.... From today's New York Times:
Execution by Military Is Approved by President
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: ... |
tjlabs | 07/29/2008 | 4 | - | - | 2 |
| Dr. Rovenstein's Monster.... The creature that is now stalking the countryside, laying waste the political landscape and terrifying its citizens, we learn today, is the result of a horrific experiment in human cloning gone ... |
tjlabs | 09/14/2008 | 4 | 1 | - | 9 |
| Sarah Palin: The First Humanoid Robot Candidate.... A humanoid robot is an autonomous robot because it can adapt to changes in its environment or itself and continue to reach ... |
tjlabs | 09/20/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Lies, Deceit, and Turban Legends: McCain's Game Plan.... From www.politico.com
Despite the first black major party candidate for president, the discussion of race in this ... |
tjlabs | 09/21/2008 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| 1/20/09...Time for popping corks and bubbles....(Revised) Richard Cohen in today's www.washingtonpost.com
How to Burst a Bubble
Obama ... |
tjlabs | 12/16/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spare change.... From www.politicsdaily.com
"Change you can believe in" on education, ... |
tjlabs | 04/24/2010 | 4 | - | - | 44 |
| Bread and Circuses.... Bob Herbert has a really terrific column in today's NY Times. I've quoted some of his central points but I would urge you to follow the link and read the whole piece. |
tjlabs | 07/05/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | - |