Monthly Archives: March 2010

by | March 15, 2010

TEXtbooks

From The New York Times: AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority … Continue reading →

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by | March 14, 2010

You Got a Beef, Stew….I mean, Stupak?

From National Review: Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House … Continue reading →

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by | March 13, 2010

Game On, Yertle McConnell!

From DEMOCRATS.SENATE.GOV: Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explaining the path forward on health insurance reform.  In the letter, Senator Reid details the steps that Senate Democrats have taken … Continue reading →

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by | March 12, 2010

P-ew!

From THE WALL OF SEPARATION: U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann said on “Hot Tea” radio yesterday that she is sick of “radical leftist organizations” that “intimidate Christians” from speaking about politics from the pulpit. Bachmann called for Congress to repeal the … Continue reading →

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by | March 11, 2010

Don’t Let The Peninsula Hit You in the Ass on Your Way Out

From seattlepi: He has already decamped from New York to Florida, but radio’s most right-thinking host – Rush Limbaugh – is threatening to move to Costa Rica if health care reform is passed by Congress and goes into effect. Limbaugh … Continue reading →

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by | March 10, 2010

Northern Overexposure

From the Canadian Press: WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin’s weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she’s so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the United … Continue reading →

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by | March 9, 2010

Powerpointing Fingers at Michael Phathead Steele

(AFP) WASHINGTON — US Republicans drew fire this week after the disclosure of an internal fundraising memo that portrays President Barack Obama as the Batman films’ crazed killer “The Joker.” The Republican National Committee document, first revealed by the online … Continue reading →

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by | March 8, 2010

The United Hates of America

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. Hate groups stayed … Continue reading →

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