Wait for it … wait for it ….
Scanning headlines over at Yahoo! News, I saw this headline:

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since ‘83

Conservatives will go ape-shit over the high unemployment rate under the Obama administration and ignore that St. Ronnie had the same high unemployment on his watch.
“But that was because of [...]

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Someone needs to make this a banner issue against the GOP during the next campaign cycle.
The U.S. Senate voted on an amendment which was proposed to the recent Defense Appropriations Act which would prohibit awarding of funds to any contractor which requires employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses for specific claims.
This amendment was offered specifically [...]

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The current GOP brand is a flaming bag of dog shit on the front porch of America.
Seriously.
In New York (NY-20), a 30-year veteran of the New York legislature will lose an election to a newcomer … and this is in a district with a voter registration that leans in the GOP’s favor.
I guess it beats [...]

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During the 2008 presidential election, conservative ideologues insisted that Obama’s tenuous association with William Ayers was worthy of unending scrutiny and fantastically hysterical nightmare scenarios. Sarah Palin insisted that we know more about someone who “pals around with terrorists.” It was critical.
Now we have Michael Steele, chairman of the GOP, insisting that his recent dust-up [...]

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Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.

Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest [...]

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With the recent hue and cry about the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, one would be inclined to believe that the foundations of American society are about to crumble, bringing the entirety of this nation with it. However unlikely this may be, it hasn’t stopped social conservatives from invoking every sort [...]

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May 5, 1925. A warrant is issued for the arrest of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, for teaching evolution—in violation of state law—to a high school biology class in Dayton, TN.
The result: God goes and trial and fails to appear to defend “His” creation. In lieu of God, William Jennings Bryan shows up [...]

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I mock religion. I mock the religion in which I was raised—my parents’ religion—and all other religions. However, mocking the Jesus Fish isn’t simply individual smugness or an affectation of superiority. When one decides to declare their ignorance for all to see, openly mocking such ignorange almost becomes an obligation.
Over at the National Review the [...]

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What kind of thinking is “dangerous”?
According to Rep. Monique Davis, a Chicago Democrat in the IL state legislature, atheism is dangerous thinking:

Davis: I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it’s really a tragedy — it’s [...]

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Oh, this is just lovely.

Lawmaker says unmarried teen parents are ’sluts’
A Colorado Springs lawmaker referred Wednesday to unmarried, pregnant teenagers and the fathers as “sluts,” who should be made to feel ashamed for their lack of morals.
Rep. Larry Liston’s remarks were made during a discussion of Colorado’s high teen pregnancy rate with health care professionals [...]

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