Your Morning Addiction: Justice Scalia Is A Disgrace Edition
Wednesday! It starts off bitter buts ends off so sweet!
Supreme Court Justice Scalia Says Being Gay Is ‘Immoral’ Like ‘Murder’ by Liberal Lamp Post:
Scalia also wrote that anti-sodomy laws required “little discussion” because there isn’t “any society” that accepts homosexuality as legal and moral. He accused the six justices who struck down anti-sodomy laws as being unaware that acceptance of gay culture is obviously not “mainstream.” Read more
“[T]he Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.” Read more
Rachel Maddow On How 6 Conservative Scammers Turn ‘Ignorance & Impotent Rage’ Into Riches (VIDEO) by Elisabeth Parker:
During last night’s riveting episode, Rachel Maddow shed light on a potential source of the conservative pundit circle’s refusal to admit defeat: Sheer venality. After all — as Maddow so aptly explains in the dramatic, twisting cadences of a pot-boiler detective novel — Republican consultants and pundits have created a unique alchemy by taking people’s ignorance and impotent rage, and transforming it into political and financial gold. Read more
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‘Guardian’ Fumes Helplessly, As Readers Award Bradley Manning ‘Person Of The Year’ Honors by Deborah Montesano:
Even before the “Person Of The Year” announcement was made, however, questions arose aboutThe Guardian‘s handling of the honor. First of all, the British newspaper delayed announcing the winner for 36 hours. Read more
Christian Radio Host Wants To ‘Punch Atheists’ For Hating Baby Jesus (VIDEO) by Michael Hayne:
We’re now in week two of Fox News’ imaginary War on Christmas, which, being imaginary and all, means that it’s finally a war they won’t dodge. Read more
Joe Scarborough: Limbaugh And Beck Need To Be ‘Punched In The Face’ (VIDEO) by Kimberley Johnson:
Scarborough pointed out that “Some people still think on the far, far, far right—very few though, I’ve got to say—that it’s still a week before the election.” Read more
Michigan’s capital experienced quite an historic day. An estimated 10,000 protestors gathered to voice their opinion on the right-to-work legislation. Although the vast majority of the day was very peaceful, a few protestors weren’t so lucky. They were on the receiving end of a can of pepper spray. Read more
In other words, no matter how far these Congressmen (and, yes, a few women too) go — obstructing progress, distorting policy-making, and holding the American economy and body politic hostage to their own narrow interests — they will suffer few, if any, consequences. Read more
The poll revealed other interesting results as well, and they eerily reflect the 2012 election outcome. For instance, 47% of respondents really and truly believe there’s a war on Christmas. (Seriously.) Oddly enough, that’s the precise percentage of votes received by presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election (and of course, we all know the other reason 47% is a significant number for Romney). Read more
Chuck Todd Argues Relevancy Of Mainstream Media With Authors, Mann and Ornstein (VIDEOS) by Egberto Willies:
The reality is that the mainstream press is already irrelevant. The mainstream press has lost its value to the Right because the Right does not require balance; it requires capitulation to a false reality. Read more
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