The Biggest Lie in the "Sex Ed Before Reading" Ad
It won't surprise anyone to hear that the quotes from newspapers & magazines in McCain's appallingly sleazy "Sex Ed" advertisement were taken out of context.An article at Huff Post does a good job...
View ArticlePlease Vote Soon -- Even if it is an Unscientific Poll
April 22, 2009: MSNBC is running an online poll asking people to grade Obama's performance on an A to F scale. Apparently, conservatives are flooding the site with "F" votes.Even though this is an...
View ArticleGlenn Beck said 9/11 was a message from God & America stopped listening to...
The title of this diary is not a joke. Olbermann & others have publicized Beck's lie that he held George Washington's inaugural address in his hands. But there were two much more embarrassing...
View ArticleRespectfully, WTF, and deja vu all over again.
I was in college in 1968, when Hubert Humphrey ran against Nixon. Though it was a presidential election year, there were similarities to this one. We had a president with a great record on social...
View ArticleAnother Tea Party Reenactment -- the Cold War
Many voters and commentators talk about the Tea Party and Glenn Beck as if they were a brand new phenomenon in American politics, and see the rise of the Tea Party as a reaction to the election of our...
View ArticlePlease Use Your Mobie Phone to Help Vermonters
I'm sure you've all seen photos of the horrible flood damage in Vermont as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. And you've probably heard/read the stories about the way Vermonters are working to help one...
View ArticlePer Mitt Logic, the Koch Bros Will vote for Obama
I'll leave it to others to detail all the factual errors in Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remarks. (David Brooks did a very good one in today's New York Times. http://tinyurl.com/...)I just want to point...
View Article"Currently unavailable " facts
It seems that every time a study is critical of their tax and health care proposals, the Romney-Ryan campaign says the study is wrong because "such an analysis would require additional, more detailed...
View ArticlePlease Tell Everyone About the Voter Protection Hotline
With all the new laws, court challenges, and sleazy mailers this year, it is more important than ever that voters know where they can go for accurate, nonpartisan information on voting. So I hope you...
View ArticleThe White House Thinks No One is Interested in Global Warming: Maybe They're...
I got an email today asking me to "answer a short, voluntary survey that will help us improve the White House online program and create more content that people find interesting."The second question on...
View ArticleGet Congress to Protect the Constitution By Demanding Trump Fully Disclose...
Reading about Donald Trump since the election brings to mind this cartoon by Gary Trudeau in the summer of the Nixon Impeachment trial.As James Fallows has documented, tinyurl.com/... Trump went...
View ArticleThe Biggest Lie in the "Sex Ed Before Reading" Ad
It won't surprise anyone to hear that the quotes from newspapers & magazines in McCain's appallingly sleazy "Sex Ed" advertisement were taken out of context.An article at Huff Post does a good job...
View ArticlePlease Vote Soon -- Even if it is an Unscientific Poll
April 22, 2009: MSNBC is running an online poll asking people to grade Obama's performance on an A to F scale. Apparently, conservatives are flooding the site with "F" votes.Even though this is an...
View ArticleGlenn Beck said 9/11 was a message from God & America stopped listening to...
The title of this diary is not a joke. Olbermann & others have publicized Beck's lie that he held George Washington's inaugural address in his hands. But there were two much more embarrassing...
View ArticleRespectfully, WTF, and deja vu all over again.
I was in college in 1968, when Hubert Humphrey ran against Nixon. Though it was a presidential election year, there were similarities to this one. We had a president with a great record on social...
View ArticleAnother Tea Party Reenactment -- the Cold War
Many voters and commentators talk about the Tea Party and Glenn Beck as if they were a brand new phenomenon in American politics, and see the rise of the Tea Party as a reaction to the election of our...
View ArticlePlease Use Your Mobie Phone to Help Vermonters
I'm sure you've all seen photos of the horrible flood damage in Vermont as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. And you've probably heard/read the stories about the way Vermonters are working to help one...
View ArticlePer Mitt Logic, the Koch Bros Will vote for Obama
I'll leave it to others to detail all the factual errors in Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remarks. (David Brooks did a very good one in today's New York Times. http://tinyurl.com/...)I just want to point...
View Article"Currently unavailable " facts
It seems that every time a study is critical of their tax and health care proposals, the Romney-Ryan campaign says the study is wrong because "such an analysis would require additional, more detailed...
View ArticlePlease Tell Everyone About the Voter Protection Hotline
With all the new laws, court challenges, and sleazy mailers this year, it is more important than ever that voters know where they can go for accurate, nonpartisan information on voting. So I hope you...
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