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Saturday Night Card Game (When The Race Card Met Godwin)

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Posted by    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:00pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

It has been eight days since the Governor of Arizona signed the immigration law. A few tweaks have been made in...

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I Will Not

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Posted by    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 6:19pm

post about it (yet). Link to it (yet). Sneak it into a post about something else (yet).

Because you already know about it.

And you know what I am talking about.

(Comments are now open.)

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“Eight Days In April,” by Paul Krugman

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Posted by    Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 8:55am

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.

The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what may be the worst oil spill...

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Dreams Really Do Come True In Washington

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Posted by    Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:30pm

I said it:

Oh, please. Obama’s multi-trillion dollar spending spree is a lobbyist’s wet dream. More money will be made by more lobbyists divvying up this pork than in the collective history of the United States.

And they dreamed it:

I can’t believe I put “wet dreams” in a post title, but it has...
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Goldman Sachs Must Capitulate And Confess

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Posted by    Friday, April 30, 2010 at 10:45am

The Justice Department has commenced a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs:

Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into trading at Goldman Sachs, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the Wall Street giant, according to people familiar with...

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Do NOT Read This Supreme Court Decision

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Posted by    Friday, April 30, 2010 at 7:00am

… if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out for ice cream. Because none of...

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I Thought We Were Supposed To Be Boycotting California

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Posted by    Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11:10am

This whole boycott thing is getting really confusing.

California is boycotting Arizona because of the Arizona immigration law.

But weren’t we already supposed to be boycotting California because of...

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Just Say It – “All Immigration Laws Are Racist”

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Posted by    Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 8:45am

There is a fundamental disconnect in the arguments being mounted against the Arizona immigration law. What many of the critics want to say, but do not, is that they view all immigration laws as inherently racist because most illegal immigrants are non-white.

There are some legitimate civil liberties concerns regarding the standard...

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Right-Wing Bloggers Are Rugged Individualists, Left-Wing Bloggers Need Hand Holding

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 5:14pm

That’s my synopsis of this report by the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Here is the chart of their findings as to right-wing (red) and left-wing (blue) blogs. Note particularly the second column, showing the high percentage of solo right-wing bloggers:


Here is the Berkman Center’s explanation:

Sites on the left adopt...
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They Have Bitter Clingers In Britain, Too

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 10:06am

Gordon Brown is a man of the people. When the people are around.

When alone with aides, he dismissed as bigoted a woman who expressed concerns about how immigration from Eastern Europe would affect the economy. But moments earlier, in public, he praised the woman.

As reported in The Telegraph:

Gordon Brown has been...

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Obamacare Requires You To “Show Your Papers”

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Posted by    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 6:45am

Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded.

Under the final Senate health care bill signed into law (unlike...

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Dave Weigel Receives PDS

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4:37pm

Dave Weigel now blogs at The Washington Post covering “the conservative movement and Republican Party.”

I’ll leave an assessment of Weigel’s prior blogging aside for the moment.

At least now he knows what it is like to experience Palin Derangement Syndrome first hand (emphasis mine):

Last night I appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith...

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Health Care Cost Report Deliberately Held Back? Update: Denial.

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 2:18pm

I previously posted about a recent report by the Office of Medicare Actuary which found that Obamacare would increase costs, and that the final health care bill made numerous unrealistic cost assumptions.

I also made the follow observation as to why the report came out so late:

Now it makes sense. The Democrats...
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Did The Danish King Wear An “I Could Be Illegal” Button?

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 11:30am

It is over-the-top and out-of-control when it comes to the Arizona immigration bill recently signed. Not the law itself, but the reaction.

Linda Greenhouse’s opinion piece in The NY Times ep...

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Politico: Yeah, Barack Got Enemy

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Posted by    Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 10:32am

Politico has figured out that “Obama the uniter” never existed.

Obama created momentum by identifying enemies against whom to campaign, and has continued that practice in office. The only change is that in an earlier incarnation, the enemies were groups, whereas now the enemies are individuals.

As characterized by Politico:

Once chastised for not...

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