Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Just One Thing! – DORK TOWER, Wednesday, January 20, 2011 – I often ask myself this very question.
- The horror … the horror … – Zits for 1/21/2011
- Another Step Forward for LGBT Equality – And a fine step it is.
- One Year After Citizens United, Right-Wing Demands Even More Corporate Money and Less Transparency in Politics – The Right (or at least the corporate sponsors thereof) continues to push for the best elections money can buy.
- Fact Checker – A judge’s letter on health care and an email gone viral – Just because you get it in an Internet email doesn’t mean it’s true. Or true any more, if it ever was. I know some folks will find that shocking, but it’s true. You can trust me about it, because you’re reading me on the Internet.
- The right has fashion police, too? – “Please, conservatives, grow up. Let there be a part of you that says, ‘If I’m writing about the color of the First Lady’s clothing, maybe my hatred of the White House has reached an irrational level.'”
- Christie faces heat from anti-Muslim right – “At this point, one starts to realize that these [critics on the right] have about as much reverence for American society and the rule of law as the ‘stealth jihadists’ that populate their conspiracy theories.”
- Hensarling fails on so many levels – When all you can talk about is your talking points, it’s probably not worth talking.
- Klingenschmitt: DADT Repeal Means Chaplains Can No Longer Perform Gay Exorcisms – Actually, should a gay service member come to a military chaplain and ask for a “gay exorcism,” I’m not aware of anything in DADT repeal that would prevent that from happening. Not that I’d expect less than zany and dishonest fearmongering from a guy like this.
- GOP’s State Of The Union Responder Would Set Higher Tax Rates On Middle-Class Than Millionaires – Regressive taxation! It’s the only way America can be free!
- Gun Show Attendees Say High-Capacity Gun Clips Aren’t Needed For Self-Defense – “If ten rounds of ammunition can’t do the job you probably shouldn’t own a gun. I don’t want to live next to that guy.” On the other hand, I’m now pedantically cringing at the incorrect use of “clip” for “magazine” in this article …
- Refusing To Sit With Democrats, Rep. Broun Warns Of Obama Spewing ‘Venom’ At State Of The Union – Another example of the the Republican Victim Complex.
- The Internet Facts of Life as Explained by a 12-Year-Old [Humor] – This one’s for the ‘rents. 🙂
- Ten Commandments Go Up in Giles County (Virginia) Schools – Count me as a Christian who thinks it highly improper for the Ten Commandments to be hanging in a school. (And an American who thinks it’s highly improper for an American flag to be on display in a church, for that matter.)
- Get Ready For $4-A-Gallon Gas – Cue demands by the GOP and the Oil Barons that the US add a paltry amount of domestic oil (doing little to reduce prices) in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 …
- The GOP’s war against the poor and sick – How the World Works – Salon.com – Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
- Tea Partyers don’t actually care about “liberty” – War Room – Salon.com – “If ending the disastrous, expensive, immoral and racist drug war gets booed at a Tea Party rally in liberty-loving New Mexico, there is absolutely nothing remotely libertarian about the movement besides a visceral hatred of taxes and the conviction that undeserving Others are benefiting from them.” I’d say that sums the movement up pretty well.
- Shot congresswoman’s GOP foe: Can I run again yet? – War Room – Salon.com – Stay class, Jesse!
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