NY-Sen: Scenes from the debate
I attended my first televised debate last night, between Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Wendy Long at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs.Scott Wooledge had an insightful diary about the debate, what...
View ArticleDeMint for President
That's what longtime wingnut profiteer Richard Viguerie thinks, according to the top story at newsmax.com now.Viguerie started his direct-mail business with a Goldwater list, and has made a bundle...
View ArticleSchool killer's mom was 'something of a survivalist'
Why would a well-off suburban single mother have an arsenal of at least six guns, three of which were used against her and dozens of schoolchildren and teachers by her mentally disturbed son?As family...
View ArticleAL Sen. Sessions hates on hungry poor people, again
One major reason the five-year farm bill has not been passed is that conservative House and Senate Republicans want to cut food stamps by $4.5 billion.The Great Recession has caused a marked increase...
View ArticleGuns in homes kill people
There has been yet another spurt in gun sales after the Newtown massacre, like similar spurts after Obama's election and re-election.All aided and abetted by the gun industry and its well-paid...
View ArticleRefuting Newtown CT on talk radio
I used to call local talk radio (in Albany, NY) regularly, but not so much lately, as I cut back on listening to daily denigration of everything Democratic.What's the point -- the 27 percent cannot be...
View ArticleAn NRA/tea party rally
The NRA and its allies in talk radio put on a rally in Albany, NY, today.They turned out somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 in West Capitol Park, the largest right-wing rally around here since the first...
View ArticleNY Conservatives still love 28% Wingnut Wendy
Last year around this time, the New York Conservative Party essentially launched the campaign of Wingnut Wendy Long for US Senate, against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, at its annual winter meeting in...
View ArticleFelon scams charter school scammers
The Brighter Choice charter school gang, composed largely of Pataki hacks and funders, has set up 11 charter schools in Albany, NY, with the goal of destroying public education in the city and...
View ArticleTeabagger pol goes Godwin in the morning, apologizes in the afternoon
NY Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, elected in the 2010 GOP wave with strong tea party support, does not like Gov. Cuomo's new gun safety law one bit.McLaughlin, who represents most of...
View ArticleNYT: Gun ownership continues long decline
Gun owners are an ever-shrinking minority in every section of the country, according to a front-page, above-the-fold story in today's New York Times.Overall, household gun ownership has shrunk from 50...
View ArticleConservatives and cheap labor
Conservatives evidently view the four-plus-year-long unemployment crisis as a Shock Doctrine opportunity to cut taxes some more for the wealthy and slash government jobs and programs.Conservatives also...
View ArticleTea Party Patriots promote anti-IRS rallies, with no mention of their own IRS...
The major tea party umbrella group -- Tea Party Patriots -- hopes to continue its anti-Obama crusade with Rein in the IRS rallies tomorrow at IRS offices across the country.Of course, tea partiers, TPP...
View ArticleNBC/Comcast carries Pete Peterson's water
Tonight on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams introed a story about how Medicare spending is slowing somewhat by making it all about the inevitable insolvency of Medicare and Social Security. (I could...
View ArticleThe twilight of the Murdoch Post
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has been the most conservative major newspaper in New York state for decades.The Murdoch Post has been a cheerleader, in its news and editorial pages, for right-wing...
View ArticleNN13: Where are the wingnuts?
Ever since the first Netroots Nation in Austin in 2008, our annual gathering has been shadowed by the well-funded wingnut right.The Kochs-created Americans for Prosperity created an astroturf...
View ArticleAmbitious pol plots tea party revival in NY
Bill Nojay is just a first-term New York Assemblymember, but he has quickly become a leading statewide Republican via his loud opposition to Gov. Cuomo's gun control law (the SAFE Act) and ability to...
View ArticleRand Paul and abortion
Freshman Senator Rand Paul is a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.His mini-rebranding of his father's neo-Bircher libertarianism, nationally amplified by his anti-drones...
View ArticleBoehner lies that House Republicans represent the 'American people'
GOP House Speaker John Boehner has a favorite mendacious meme that whatever the tea party House does -- repealing Obamacare dozens of time; holding the world economy hostage to unprecedented debt-limit...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs kills another kid
In Austin, Texas, two young parents smoked pot, so the state took their two-year-old daughter away from them and placed her in foster care.The father noticed that his daughter Alexandria had many...
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