March 2011
38 posts
“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of...”
– Media Matters’ war against Fox - Ben Smith - POLITICO (via brooklynmutt)
this is great. I had heard of media matters but didn’t fully understand their purpose until just recently, but in essence they are a fact-checker watchdog that’s had enough with blatant misrepresentation. good...
“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom… but we...”
– Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama (via undressmysenses)
House Repubs Vote That Earth Is Not Warming →
am I missing something? have these guys got summer homes on jupiter? it’s almost like these guys are programmed: lie, cheat, steal, church on sunday morning, poop all over planet, blame dems for problems, denounce abortion, get re-elected, repeat. it’s gross.
“If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who...”
– John F. Kennedy (via scientifik)
What would the Obama campaign think of the Obama... →
highsee:
wilwheaton:
The Obama campaign was only three years ago, but it had strong opinions on this sort of thing. “To lead the world, we must lead by example,” Candidate Obama said in October of 2007. “We must be willing to acknowledge our failings, not just trumpet our victories. And when I’m President, we’ll reject torture - without exception or equivocation.” But now we find there is...
Iowa Woman Jailed For Thinking About Abortion →
highsee:
jonathan-cunningham:
rabbleprochoice:
stfuconservatives:
Submitted by ironchefbatali: “I wish that headline was from The Onion, but it’s not. Apparently the gallant defenders of fetuses everywhere have decided that policing thoughts is the next best way to trample on women’s rights protect life.”
I tried to come up with something witty to say to mock this but the crushing...
“As far as being overpaid and underworked…I grant you, I have a week’s vacation...”
– A Letter to Gov. Scott Walker From a Wisconsin Teacher | Mother Jones h/t: PositivelyPersistentTeach (via kateoplis)
There's No Such Thing As Voter Fraud →
bg5000:
This post is about 2 1/2 years old, written at the time of the whole “ACORN is going to steal the election for Obama” thing (remember that?), but the points behind still hold true today and definitely play into the “photo IDs and voting” discussion that Matt started. Allow me to quote a large chunk of it:
One of the fundamental rules of criminality is that the more people it takes to...
Fareed Zakaria: Are America's Best Days Behind Us? →
kateoplis:
Despite the hyped talk of China’s rise, most Americans operate on the assumption that the U.S. is still No. 1. But is it? Yes, the U.S. remains the world’s largest economy, and we have the largest military by far, the most dynamic technology companies and a highly entrepreneurial climate. But these are snapshots of where we are right now. The decisions that created today’s growth —...
Clarke's three laws →
bestofwikipedia:
Clarke’s Three Laws are three “laws” of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. They are: 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture...
“President Obama, who has stood by his landmark health care law through court...”
– “Obama Backs Easing Health Law Rules for States,” from the New York Times.
Hrrrrrrrrmm.
(via inothernews)
this is how “leaders” lead, making compromises on the details while maintaining key tenets. it’s only a fool who doesn’t give an inch.
“Like all weak men he...
