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Newt Gingrich’s Partisan Concerns Over The ‘Obama,’ Debate Moderators

February 1, 2012
By
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Presidential nominee Newt Gingrich has decided to continue on with his pity party about how unfair the lame-stream media is by declaring that he will not participate in any presidential debates with President Obama if the moderators are media journalists

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Is Sarah Palin Destined To Be The Next Dan Quayle?

January 19, 2012
By
Unknown

When Sarah Palin declared that she would vote for presidential nominee Newt Gingrich in this week's South Carolina Primary–prompting him to say that she could play a ‘major role’ in his administration if he became the next President of the United States, the rumor mill starting churning overtime with possible, political scenarios for what...

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Cut Spending For You, Big Government For Me, We Are The GOP

January 17, 2012
By
Where's Perry? Who cares?

Why is it that food and clothing for the poor is 'wasteful spending' but needlessly invading other countries on the other side of the world is considered 'vital to National defense?'

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Fishing For Black Votes in a Republican Pond Full of White Water

January 15, 2012
By
Newt1

Once the covers have been pulled back from the anti-ethnic narrative of the basic, White-male-dominated-society rhetoric of the Republican Party, it’s easy to see where Republicans like Gingrich are coming from when they make statements about President Obama being a ‘food stamp president’ or the Democratic Party being the party of welfare checks and...

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Life, Liberty and Lies in New Hampshire

January 9, 2012
By
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If you’ve ever been curious about the core of conservatism, all you needed to do is watch ABC’s New Hampshire Republican Debate, which was the first debate that took place over this past weekend on Saturday night.

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Will Jon Huntsman Have to Set Himself on Fire?

January 9, 2012
By
JON HUNTSMAN

After watching NBC’s New Hampshire Republican Debate on Sunday morning, it’s not outside of conventional, political wisdom to suggest that Jon Huntsman has done one of the best invisible man impersonations of all-time.

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Enough Already With The Crying, Newt

January 3, 2012
By
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There are no friends in capitalism—just lions, hyenas and sharks and the bloody, red meat prize is the GOP nomination and possibly the White House.

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Rick Santorum Is Nothing More Than a Slightly Polished Pat Robertson

January 2, 2012
By
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There are a couple of old sayings that come to mind when one thinks about the current rise of presidential candidate Rick Santorum. One saying proclaims that every dog will have its day, and the other saying proclaims that even a blind hog can manage to serendipitously stumble across an unoccupied, slop bucket every...

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Oh No, It’s Those Darn ‘Gotcha’ Questions Again

December 26, 2011
By
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It’s a defense mechanism known as the ‘gotcha’ question, and candidates like Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul have really taken this responsibility ducking mechanism to another level.

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Standing Under the Happy Holidays Umbrella Is Not an Indictment of Faith

December 26, 2011
By
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There is nothing wrong with the notion of ‘Happy Holidays’ as a proper holiday greeting.

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Kim Jong-il Has Passed Away But Will His Political Ideology Remain?

December 19, 2011
By
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Maybe with Jong-il’s passing, the North Korea vs. South Korea narrative will finally change for the better.

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Pretty Doggone Good for a Failed Presidency

December 18, 2011
By
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As the world watched the last U.S. combat troops cross over the Iraqi border into Kuwait; one could easily be inclined to contemplate on what, by today’s standards, constitutes a failed presidency, since the Obama administration has been tagged with that label regularly.

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The Republicans: They Are Who We Thought They Were

December 16, 2011
By
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After watching this latest Republican Debate on Fox News, one thing becomes clear, and that is the very real split between the insane and the reasonable

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A $10,000 Dosage of Conservative Hypocrisy

December 11, 2011
By
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During last night’s latest Republican Debate in Iowa, Mitt Romney, according to some political pundits, might have wagered his way right out of the GOP nomination during another one of his famed, political exchanges with his old nemesis Rick Perry, who had once again set his sights on Romneycare.

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This Is Why We Are Progressives

December 11, 2011
By
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Those conservatives say the darnedest things, and unfortunately for the connoisseurs of common sense, they actually believe in much of their outlandishness. So, prepare to go where no grain of reason has dared to go before, as you will now take a trip into the mind of a conservative.

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Bill O’Reilly Still Watches Soul Train Where All of the Blacks Hang Out

December 7, 2011
By
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O'Reilly then looked at Dr. Hill and questioned how President Obama is going to reach out to these African-Americans, as he asked: 'Are they going to be on Soul Train?'

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Why Herman Cain Had to Take His Pizza, and Go Home

December 5, 2011
By
CAIN_PIZZAX390

If a sitting U.S. president can be asked or demanded to yield two birth certificates, Herman Cain should have expected to be asked to explain the possible recklessness of his libido and misuse of his authority, and that wouldn’t change whether it was Obama-loving Democrats behind it or disgruntled Rick Perry supporters blowing the...

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Only a Jive Turkey Would Criticize President Obama’s Thanksgiving Day Address

November 27, 2011
By
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Only a jive turkey would criticize President Obama’s Thanksgiving Day speech because he didn’t mention God enough or at all, whichever makes the conservative rooster crow the loudest!

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Hide Your Liberal Heart and Fantasize About President Reagan

November 25, 2011
By
REAGAN-2

After watching many of these Republican debates, one reccurring theme just keeps instituting itself, and that theme is the vast hypocrisy that lies between what conservatives say on one hand versus what they will turn around and do on the other, and no one has made this point any better than Newt Gingrich during...

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Pro-Life, Pro-Agenda, And Just Plain Pro-Stupid

November 10, 2011
By
B-You'reProLife

If you have ever found yourself searching for a good reason to continue your support of the Separation of Church and State argument, look no further than the Jonestown-like dynamics of Mississippi’s Initiative 26 proposal--better known as the ‘personhood amendment’--that was thankfully voted down in Mississippi’s most recent election.

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Herman Cain Should Blame Himself Just Like He Told the 99% to Do

November 3, 2011
By
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What Cain needs to understand is the fact that it is not the questionable behavior of the allegations that will totally and ultimately fry his pizza. It will be the elusive actions of Mr. Cain as he tries to outmaneuver the media in hopes of keeping the sorted facts surrounding his questionable behavior all...

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Rick Perry Simply Doesn’t Have the Balls

October 31, 2011
By
Tough with a gun, scared of debates

So now Perry has mysteriously developed some political doubts about the relevance of the debates as a whole in regards to the political well-being of the candidate, as he told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly that agreeing to participate in the debates at all was probably a mistake. Again, in a true anti-Texas fashion of manning...

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The Showdown Over The Drawdown

October 24, 2011
By
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During a recent interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, Senator Lindsey Graham took some time out of his precious schedule to criticize the Obama administration over the proposed 2011 December 31st ending of the Iraq War.

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It’s Hard to Feel Sorry for Moammar Gadhafi

October 21, 2011
By
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The question then becomes how many people saw their lives come to an unceremonious, undignified, bloody end just like Gadhafi, but by the hands of Gadhafi? How many innocent people were forced to take the bloody ride on the back of a truck that would soon become their hearse? How many flights like Pan...

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No Democracy For The Womb

October 20, 2011
By
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Women seeking emergency abortions aren’t the ones shipping jobs to China, and they aren’t the ones who have engulfed the economy in a drowning pool of debt either. So why are we allowing old-dogs with even older tricks to, once again, attempt to saw a woman in half?

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The Political Gloves Were Off as the Republicans Squared Off

October 19, 2011
By
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After watching what Newt Gingrich described to CNN’s Anderson Cooper as a forum setup to promote a lot of back and forth bickering between a couple of key candidates, my feelings fall right in line with Gingrich, because this entire Republican Western Debate in Las Vegas, Nevada was a tableau of back and forth...

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Should Elite Christianity Be The Only Prerequisite For The Presidency?

October 10, 2011
By
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Between the Westboro Baptist Church, Dr. Robert Jeffress, and the entire Christian right ideology, it has become increasingly more difficult to decipher just who has been the ideological fungus that grows on the wall of common sense and integrity; making it unclear as to whether it is Christianity that has given a bad name...

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The Ground Zero Mosque Opens to Zero Interest

October 9, 2011
By
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As the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque,' which is actually an Islamic cultural center, recently held its first activities on September 21st of 2011, it symbolizes everything that is right about America and everything that is wrong within America. Speaking as an American citizen, it is very satisfying to witness the wheels of American justice...

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Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Inevitable

October 6, 2011
By
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America is supposed to be the land of opportunity, and it is, but where the bulk of those opportunities go and who they have traditionally gone to in the past is not as much about the home of the free and the land of the brave as one might be inclined to patriotically believe.

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Hank Williams Jr. Watches Hitler Play Golf

October 4, 2011
By
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This is a spoof of Hank Williams Jr.’s comparison of President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

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Can a Democratic Leopard Change Its Spots to Republican?

October 3, 2011
By
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Arguably, the most striking aspect of Gov. Rick Perry is the vast amount of Texas, political machismo that oozes from his GOP/Tea Party pores. He soared into the race for GOP nominee and continued to soar as he perched himself at the top of the pile; doing it so effortlessly that he almost made...

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Chris Christie: The Man Who Sits Across from Skinny

September 28, 2011
By
Charlie Baker, Chris Christie

Who would have thought that Gov. Chris Christie’s weight would become an issue if he decided to run for president? Apparently, that aspect of politics must seem unimaginable to some, but it seems quite in line with the usual ‘running of the bulls’ that is to be expected within the realm of American politics,...

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What Is President Obama’s Black Debt To The Black Community?

September 26, 2011
By
cornelvsobama

So here lies the dichotomy that will doggedly face President Obama as long as he is president, and will more than likely haunt his presidential legacy all throughout the history books. While he is a thuggish, Robin Hood to many in Joe the Plumber’s ideological camp, he might as well be a cross between...

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Is the Term African-American Stupid or Necessary?

September 25, 2011
By
blackamericablackman

I’ve encountered many conservatives and Republicans who have openly pushed for a complete omission of the word African being placed in front of American, because just being an American should be sufficient, as we are all one great nation. On paper, it’s a unifying idea, but in reality; it’s hypocrisy in its finest hour.

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Mitt Romney: Too Much for Rick Perry, Concerning to President Obama?

September 24, 2011
By
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Arguably, the most intriguing aspect of this entire debate was the ability of the candidates to morph this GOP nomination debate into a political referendum on Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney was the most vocal in doing that.

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The Execution of Troy Davis: Vengeful Compensation Over Justice

September 22, 2011
By
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If the state of Georgia can intentionally kill a person in a case surrounded with this much doubt, then we're all subject to the same fate.

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Drill Brother Drill: Sarah Palin’s Chocolate Rice

September 21, 2011
By
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Sarah Palin always seems to find a way to shock the public, but this time it might come back to bite her squarely in her Alaskan backside. According to reports, conservative Sarah had a one-night stand with former NBA player Glen Rice when he was a college player for the Michigan Wolverines, and she...

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Superman Is Human: Rick Perry Meets Kryptonite

September 13, 2011
By
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What a fascinating event this Tea Party sponsored debate on CNN was. Plain and simple, the winner of the debate was everyone involved not named Gov. Rick Perry.

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Reflections and Perspectives of September 11th

September 11, 2011
By
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Personally, the most memorable moment of September 11th was being jarred out of my sleep by the constant ringing of my old, cellular, flip phone and hearing my cousin screaming at me hysterically telling me to turn on my television to CNN, because the country was being attacked.

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Get Out of My Bedroom

September 9, 2011
By
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In an era filled with the shadows of debt and economic uncertainty, the issue of marriage continues to be a theological lightening rod within the realm of politics. But after a closer, more progressive examination, the matrimonial lightening rod feels just like the oppressive wet blanket that it has always been in regards to...

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Proudly Still Going to the MLK Memorial

September 8, 2011
By
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.

The quote on the Stone of Hope reads, 'I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.' The actual quote in its entirety, as spoken by Dr. King during one of his sermons in 1968 was, 'If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum...

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Money Talks and Progressive Policies Walk

September 7, 2011
By
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Many have decreed that if Obama caves and gives Big Oil this anti-environmental, smorgasbord pipeline, they will walk out on him for good, leaving the White House door wide open for Mitt Romney, Rick Perry or even Sarah Palin to gallop into Washington in 2013 with the Tea Party riding shotgun and build the...

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Crackhead Economics

August 29, 2011
By
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The general conservative consensus goes something like this: corporations would love to come back to the United States, but big government liberalism would only rake them over the coals again with unfair, high taxes if they do decide to return. This is the type of conservative propaganda that passes for 'gospel' in places like...

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Build Your Own Levees, and Kiss Irene

August 28, 2011
By
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

There is no other politician/candidate that has perplexed me like Congressman and presidential nominee Ron Paul.

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Straw Poll, Straw Candidate: Michele Bachmann

August 14, 2011
By
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As Michele Bachmann basks in the glow of her big straw poll victory in Iowa, it all starts to play like an episode from the political Twilight Zone, which is a stratosphere that conservatives seem all too happy to dwell in.

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Bully Politics and the Tea Party Chihuahua

August 14, 2011
By
chihuahua

Due to Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of the United States from AAA to AA+, the bully politics has been fierce and forthcoming. As the finger-pointing of blame and the livid questioning of overall government competence has been at a fever pitch, especially in regards to the bully pulpit.

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The Republican Debate in Iowa

August 12, 2011
By
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The Republican debate that occurred tonight in Iowa on August 11th of 2011 on the Fox News network was a much better debate than the previous one, and to my progressive dismay; the panel, which consisted of Brett Braier, Chris Wallace and others, asked some really informative and provocative questions.

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Democratically, I’m Disgruntled, Disgusted And Depressed

August 3, 2011
By
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Before I discuss the debt ceiling deal and the political ramifications that it appears to have on the general perception of President Obama and the entire Democratic Party, I would like to share some insight.

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Climbing the Mt. Everest of American Debt!

August 1, 2011
By
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As you all are aware of by now, the conservative/Republican brand is allegedly more determined than ever to tackle this mountain of U.S. debt, especially if you let them tell it! Now that sounds respectable on the surface, but it smells deceptively inaccurate underneath, at least to my political nostrils it does.

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The Republican Plan To Kick the Obama Can Down the Road and Out of the White House

July 25, 2011
By
obamaDown

It seems like Republicans are so hell-bent on making sure that Obama doesn't get re-elected that they're using a potential economic catastrophe to try to make the President look bad. They want President Obama to fail, and they don't care about the cost.

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Republicans & Decepticons: Strategically Parallel

July 11, 2011
By
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Either, the Republicans have taken a page from the Decepticons’ playbook, or the Decepticons have taken a page from the Republican’s playbook, because the two strategies appear to be of the same philosophical bloodline.

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In a New York State of Mind

July 3, 2011
By
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Everyone is happy over New York allowing gay marriage, but all of you had better repent. I just talked to Rodney the Republican Rabbi, and he said that the ghost of gay marriage past, the ghost of gay marriage present, and the ghost of gay marriage future are all going to find your children...

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Why Mitt Should Split!

June 22, 2011
By
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Mitt Romney will have a hard time winning an election against President Obama since his Massachusetts healthcare plan is very similar to 'Obamacare'.

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I Would Like to Vote for a Republican, BUT!!!

June 14, 2011
By
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I would like to vote Republican in 2012, but it’s hard to walk into a conservative bar and pick out the best drunk, and that’s essentially what you would be forced to do judging from the cookie cutter candidates I saw during this Republican debate in New Hampshire, which was held tonight on June...

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Tweeted and Defeated: Anthony Weiner

June 9, 2011
By
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Many people are calling for Anthony Weiner's resignation, but should he resign because of the controversy over pictures he sent from his Twitter account?

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What Is a ‘Right Wing slut’?

June 4, 2011
By
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Right Wing Slut – An individual who will purposely and automatically sacrifice any and all attempts to concede any element of integrity, truthfulness, fairness or deserved credibility when concerning all political opposition for the lustful, marginalized satisfaction of garnering or sustaining political linkages to the conservative Right.

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Fox News vs. the Rapper Common: The Real Story

May 18, 2011
By
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After witnessing Fox News use the rapper, Common, as their latest, Osama Bin Laden, counter whip to flog President Obama, I have, once again, been compelled to act, not on behalf of Common and not behalf of President Obama or the First Lady, Michelle Obama, but on behalf of an age-old problem in this...

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Apes and African-Americans: The Obama Photo

May 5, 2011
By
An image e-mailed by Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party member who sits on the Republican Party central committee of Orange County, California

In case you haven’t see this, some lady named Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Republican Party, sent a distasteful email depicting President Obama as a baby chimpanzee sitting in the laps of his chimpanzee parents. Apparently, the caption read something along the lines of that being a possible reason why no...

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Osama Bin Laden: An Infidel Impersonating a Muslim

May 4, 2011
By
laden

Osama bin Laden was a terrible person who did terrible things. His views do not represent the views of a majority of the Muslims in the world.

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One Birth Certificate Should Be Enough

April 30, 2011
By
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Birtherism - The movement to investigate whether or not an African-American has the right to run for or occupy the office of the presidency of the United States of America, in an outright attempt to delegitimize the credentials of a non-traditional version of the traditional, status quo representation of the presidential imagery of the...

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The Trump Presidency

April 22, 2011
By
overcomb

Out of all of the Republicans and conservatives, Donald Trump is not the one who I despise the most. In fact, I don’t even consider him to be a true Republican or a conservative. I see Trump as an entrepreneurial, political, profit-driven opportunist

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The Grandstanding Bus

April 18, 2011
By
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The art of grandstanding is another one of those human/organic characteristics that has obviously been around since the beginning of time and probably utilized with the intention of achieving the exact same results, then and now. The age-old saying of “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” may be true to an extent,...

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Hello Scott Walker

April 7, 2011
By
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Hello Mr. Scott Walker; how’s your day—better than the unions and the teachers you’ve just legislatively violated I would assume. One of these days, if not today, the people of this nation will finally realize that our similarities make us much stronger than our differences.

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