September 2, 2005

That look of perpetual surprise on the President’s face isn’t faked: He and his Administration appear incapable of anticipating the sunrise. Condoleeza Rice, May 16,…

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August 15, 2005

How much do you want to bet the campaign’s slogan ends up being “More cowbell!”…

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July 21, 2005

The governator is proving more and more unpopular as a political leader the longer he stays on the job. Perhaps we should have another special…

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July 19, 2005

In these times of overwhelming Christian agendas and the rise of the Bible-thumpers, what’s an atheist to do? It seems like the only class of…

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July 19, 2005

Imagine a country where you could lose the property you rightfully own just because the government decides to change the rules on you and suddenly,…

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July 19, 2005

With the question of who leaked Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA agent now resolved (answer: everyone in the Bush Administration), perhaps the Washington press…

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July 14, 2005

California governor and likely steroid abuser Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an $8 Million endorsement deal with the publisher of bodybuilding magazines two days before being sworn…

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July 13, 2005

If Newsweek is right, and it appears that they are since no one’s denying anything, then the Minister of Darkness, Karl Rove, is the mouth…

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July 6, 2005

The party that spent countless news minutes to position itself as the banner holder for a “culture of life” is speeding up the death penalty…

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June 30, 2005

Same-sex marriage foes in the U.S. often say that they’re trying to protect “marriage,” because if “marriage” isn’t a union between one man and one…

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June 29, 2005

The White House’s current resident said “terror” or “terrorism” 34 times last night during his speech to pump up his poll numbers, and invoked September…

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June 29, 2005

Canada’s Parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriages throughout the nation Tuesday, and the bill now passes to the Senate for final approval, which is expected…

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June 28, 2005

As the president’s war on terror Saddam Iraqi insurgents high oil prices continues unabated — and things look like they will get worse — Mr….

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June 23, 2005

The Supreme Court has decided that, according to the fifth amendment of the constitution, governments have the right to seize your home and property for…

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June 22, 2005

In 2000, Jeff Juers was 22 years old and concerned about America’s contributions to global warming. But rather than whine about it on a weblog…

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June 17, 2005

The autopsy’s in, the evidence has been presented, everything’s finally settled about Terri Schiavo… except her parents dispute the results, insist that their daughter interacted…

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June 17, 2005

Say you’re a conservative state assembly somewhere in America and you don’t think your state colleges should be using tax dollars to promote promiscuity among…

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June 15, 2005

Before we start getting all verklempt about Canada being some bastion of free-thinking, equal-rights bastion of North America, here’s where the other show drops, and…

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June 15, 2005

Okay, boys and girls, who here loves Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, the Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch? Hands? Put your hands down and…

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June 15, 2005

It appears that the miracle Terri Schiavo needed from God or Jesus or the U.S. Congress or Shrub or somebody was the regeneration of half…

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June 13, 2005

If you don’t actually live in California, it’s easy to say that we’re all a little (or a lot) insane over here. But actually living…

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June 7, 2005

A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Americans who answer polls are finally waking up to the fact that the war in Iraq isn’t really…

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June 7, 2005

Today, an 8-month-long civil trial against the tobacco industry reaches conclusion as closing arguments are given from the Justice Department concerning their claim that the…

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June 2, 2005

Assembly Bill 19 was proposed by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno. It would redefine the state’s family code to define marriage as between “two…

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May 25, 2005

Three cheers for the jackasses at Homeland Security. In their neverending quest to keep us safe from bad dialogue they’ve made their first ever criminal…

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May 23, 2005

Now that our glorious Emperor has control of the Imperial Senate and most of the outlying planetary system governors, he is using his dark powers…

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May 17, 2005

How does the global economic outlook shape up according to those who handle the cash? Not so great. Merrill Lynch took a poll of 339…

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May 13, 2005

At a hammer-themed $250-a-plate dinner honoring him with giant red, white and blue cakes topped with candy hammers and a frightening rendition of “If I…

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May 12, 2005

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 to send the nomination of Michael Bolton to the Seante, but didn’t give him a recommendation saying that…

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May 10, 2005

Republican House leader Tom DeLay is under intensifying scrutiny for some potentially shady dealings involving money, travel and lobbyists. Democrats and even some Republicans are…

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April 28, 2005

Our stumblebum foot-in-mouth arranged-Town Meeting President takes to the airwaves tonight to try to explain how his plan to “save Social Security” isn’t really a…

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April 26, 2005

In case you were wondering, you can forget the terms “activist judges” and “culture of life.” The next talking point soundbite phrase is “culture war.”…

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April 22, 2005

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, a senior Vatican cardinal has called Spain’s plan to allow gay marriages and adoptions “iniquitous” AKA “sinful or…

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April 21, 2005

Our whiney dullard of a President used one of my favorite phrases today, urging politians to “put aside politics” and confirm his pet walrus as…

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April 21, 2005

I love it when politicians use lies to cover up their idiocy. Case in point: California’s governor and plastic surgery disaster Arnold Schwarzenegger explained that…

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April 20, 2005

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is pushing the on-going Battle for the Courts all the way to the top, calling the work done by Reagan-appointed…

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April 20, 2005

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill banning homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals from being foster parents. Furthermore, the same bill allows for children to…

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April 19, 2005

So who the heck is this Pope Benedict Ex-Vee-Eye? For starters, he’s from Germany, he celebrated his 78th birthday yesterday, he’s incredibly conservative about his…

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April 19, 2005

So, some of you are perhaps a little confused by the whole Popelection taking place in Italy at the moment. They released some white puffs…

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April 12, 2005

You’re not imagining things, the economy really does suck. The U.S. trade deficit swelled larger than expected last month, setting a new record in the…

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April 8, 2005

TOm, Tom, Tom. So, Tom DeLay, rather than backing down from his earlier insanity about calling pretty much all the judges sitting on all the…

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April 7, 2005

So that memo about Terri Schiavo that was making the rounds in DC, the one the Republicans swore they had nothing to do with and…

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April 1, 2005

Sen. Rick Santorum, homophobe from Pennsylvania, and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is a liar and a thief and uses his office for financial…

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March 28, 2005

Who, in your opinion, poses as big a threat to world peace as Islamic fundamentalist terrorism? Would it be China? Their economic clout is rising,…

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March 25, 2005

I know, it’s a long headline, but this is a potentially confusing story so I thought I’d try to clean it up for everyone quickly…

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March 21, 2005

An image of Satan has appeared on a turtle’s shell in Indiana after a fire burned down Dora’s A-Dora-Ble Pet Shop. The owner, Bryan Dora,…

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March 16, 2005

If you’ve never been to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and you can make the trip, please do it. You’ll love it; it’s beautiful. But…

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March 15, 2005

Fabulous news in the on-going “War on Terrorism” today — no one has any idea where Osama is. Officials in Pakistan and the U.S. both…

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March 15, 2005

The ex-CEO of WorldCom who had no idea about his own company’s finances, even as it spiralled into the biggest bankruptcy in the nation’s history…

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March 14, 2005

San Francisco County Superior Court Activist Judge Richard Kramer ruled that California’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, paving the way for absolutely no changes…

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March 14, 2005

The most shocking thing about the story that the Bush administration is producing uncredited fake news stories for broadcast on local television newscasts promoting Bush’s…

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March 14, 2005

In the on-going size-fest about whose is bigger, the anti-Syrians in Lebanon have taken the upper hand by turning out nearly one million protesters in…

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March 2, 2005

Now, here’s a job for the truly untalented, because all you have to be able to do is stand on your feet in one place…

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February 25, 2005

The Christian Science Monitor looks at Europe and wonders to itself, “Where did God go?” The continent is struggling to figure out how Islam, Christianity…

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February 18, 2005

The Socialist Republic of San Francisco has plenty of laws and plenty of crime, but that doesn’t stop the cops from inventing infractions to harass…

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February 17, 2005

Local mom’n’pop shop Wal-Mart has very quietly settled a 24-count child labor lawsuit for $135,000.00. Lemmee spell that out so there’s no confusion, that’s one…

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February 6, 2005

V.P. Dick Cheney has ruled out a run for the White House in 2008. “… I’ve got my plans laid out. I’m going to serve…

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February 4, 2005

“In a victory for same-sex marriage advocates, a New York state judge in Manhattan ruled today that denying gay couples licenses to marry violates the…

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February 2, 2005

Cuban leader and aging hippie Fidel Castro said George W. appeared “deranged” during the inauguration, or more specifically, he said that when he looked closely…

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February 1, 2005

The Knight Foundation recently sponsored a million dollar study on how today’s high school kids view the First Amendment. CNN, who used to employ Tucker…

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January 28, 2005

Apparently, nobody told the Dick Cheney that the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a somber occasion, because the man dressed as if…

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January 25, 2005

A conservative Christian political group known as the Arlington Group has written a letter to Bush’s main political adviser, Karl “My Head is a Giant…

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January 25, 2005

Somebody needs to take the time to send teh NeoCons to school so they can learn a few basics about economics. The Bush Bankrollers are…

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January 20, 2005

If you’re wondering who it was that The Bush needed all that protection for, the answer can be seen in one image. I make it…

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January 20, 2005

The scariest people in the world are all gathered in one place this morning, standing and sitting and thinking about new ways to curtail freedom…

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January 19, 2005

Condoleezza Rice was endorsed as secretary of state nearly unanimously by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with only Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer giving…

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January 18, 2005

Condoleeza Rice, who the neighbors’ children weren’t allowed to play with as a child for fear that she would disembowel and eat them, was taken…

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January 14, 2005

Remember when you were a child and you said something like, oh, “I wish you were dead!” to your mother or something, and she said,…

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January 14, 2005

U.S. News & World Report delivers a lengthy and detailed look at one of the American Evangelical’s most powerful figures, Focus on the Family founder…

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January 14, 2005

Ah, here’s a little nugget sure to warm the cockels of every neo-con’s black, cold heart. The military has a shortage of Arabic linguists, but…

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January 12, 2005

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, one time front-runner and primal screamer, is running to fill the vacated post of Democratic Party Chair. (And really, has…

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December 22, 2004

Bush has finally gotten around to trying to ban “pro homosexual drama.” Apparently it’s all that Tenessee Williams that’s been eroding the American family. …

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December 20, 2004

Here we are, one month from the inauguration and this is how the country apparently feels about the man just elected to another four hears…

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December 14, 2004

The Republicans have been very good at filtering off public demonstrations of protest from their events. Bush speeches during the election required signed promises that…

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December 13, 2004

If you thought the battle for the soul of America was over last month, guess again. Emboldened by what they see as a mandate over…

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December 9, 2004

Looks like all those jokes about how liberal and hippie-like California is will now shift to our neighbors to the north. The Canadian Supreme Court…

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December 7, 2004

Last month, voters in 11 states said they would prefer if homosexuals in love were denied the right to marry. They preferred it so much,…

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December 3, 2004

Tommy “Tom Thomas Tom-Tom” Thompson is the latest Bush cabinet member to resign, making the tally so far 8 out of 15 who’ve decided to…

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November 22, 2004

The $388 billion budget bill that basically had to be passed for the government to keep working was passed over the weekend, with two minor…

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November 22, 2004

The Republican majority in Congress is working fast and diligently to rework how the Congress works in order to favor their own party, which probably…

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November 17, 2004

Pretend you’re a Republican Representative from Texas. Now pretend you’ve been admonished by the House Ethics Committee for some, uh, shady dealings in your home…

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November 16, 2004

George W. has selected his close confidant and current National Security Advisor and Not a Lesbian Condoleezza Rice as Colin Powell’s successor as Secretary of…

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November 15, 2004

A 52-year-old man set himself on fire in front of the White House this afternoon before being subdued by Secret Service agents. It isn’t yet…

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November 15, 2004

Secretary of Defense and Torture Donald Rumsfeld says he hasn’t yet spoken with Bush about leaving office, which is what all the cool kids are…

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November 15, 2004

CNN is reporting that four more members of the Bush cabinet haved resigned, but unfortunately Defense Secretary Donald “I like to think of torture as…

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November 12, 2004

Bush, Rove & Co., Inc. courted the far right by positioning itself as hardliners on gay coupling, abortion and stem cell research (AKA No, No,…

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November 12, 2004

Gay rights groups are cooling off their legislative agendas for same-sex marriage rights, and turning their focus instead to civil unions. Citing the political climate…

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November 12, 2004

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained dead as he was laid to rest in Ramallah amidst tens of thousands of mourners and their guns. Mr. Arafat…

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November 10, 2004

The man who wrote the memo stating that the President could most certainly ignore the constitution and the Geneva Convention and pretty much anything else…

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November 9, 2004

As Dick Cheney hovers above Rehnquist’s deathbed ready to pull the plug, John Ashcroft frees himself up for his robe measurement. We are so very…

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November 9, 2004

Fairview Park, twelve miles west of downtown Cleveland has 13,342 registered voters there, but they cast 18,472 votes. To put it in Southern terms: “That’s…

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November 8, 2004

The US dollar hit a new low against the Euro today, on fears that the re-elected President shows no signs of concern about… well, take…

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November 8, 2004

The Washington Post lays out the how’s, when’s and who’s of the evangelical platform that helped Bush retain his office. In short, it was never…

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November 8, 2004

The President’s top political aide, Karl Rove, credited with architecting the 2004 race in which abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research became top issues stated…

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November 8, 2004

Fundamentalist Christian groups are starting to flex their newfound political muscle already, aiming at Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter who mentioned offhand that it would…

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November 5, 2004

Look for some changes in Bush’s Cabinet in the coming weeks, the most likely being the retirement of Herr Ashcroft, he of the morbid fear…

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November 4, 2004

The New York Times wanders the streets of Manhattan—a city that went for Kerry by an almost 5-to-1 margin—and asks its citizens, “Uh, Hello? What…

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November 4, 2004

I chose to become an American. I wasn’t born here, but I wanted to be part of the country that sent people to the moon,…

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November 4, 2004

The Dow Jones Industrials went up as soon as a Bush win was announced, and I bet you can guess which industrials, in particular, went…

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November 3, 2004

On behalf of fags everywhere, I want to apologize for the 2004 election’s predictable disaster. I’m going to go out on a limb here and…

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November 3, 2004

But it’s not all bad news for the country’s bed-wetting liberals, like your’s truly. The Republicans took over Congress by winning at least 53 of…

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November 3, 2004

What was the deciding factor for most Americans who got up off they asses and/or sent in their absentee ballots on time and voted? Nope,…

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November 3, 2004

The Lord’s hand-picked disciple on Earth won re-election over Democratic candidate John Kerry in a close, but not close enough, race for the White House….

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November 2, 2004

Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair has been one of W’s biggest supporters. He supplied troops and cash for the Iraqi invasion and has stood side-by-side…

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November 2, 2004

So I just did a round trip on the old satellite dial, turned it off and cruised the political shitsphere blogosphere and I feel like…

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November 2, 2004

If you’re wondering how the press will manage not to stick its foot in its mouth this year when it announces which candidates have won…

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November 2, 2004

If you’re looking for a reason (besides plain laziness or rampant apathy) for not voting, you can’t use “I didn’t have time, I had to…

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November 2, 2004

Lines are long, waits are longer and we’ve only just begun. Looks like there will be a record voter turn-out this year, but the question…

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November 2, 2004

Ha ha, scared you, didn’t I? In a faraway and we will assume brain-damaged little town in New Hampshire, the voters go to the polls…

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November 1, 2004

“When you vote this Tuesday remember to legalize gay marriage by supporting John Kerry. We need John Kerry in order to make gay marriage legal…

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November 1, 2004

Even though pastors are preaching it from the pulpit, and Republican volunteers are plastering car windshields with propaganda, and Bush advisor Karl Rove is counting…

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November 1, 2004

Churches all over the U.S. were filled with the voices of the believers yesterday, and in most of them the voices had a single over-riding…

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November 1, 2004

Oil prices fell today after reaching record levels on speculation that John Kerry will be the next President. Which, I suppose, makes sense since higher…

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November 1, 2004

Apparently, the Republican Party is so unsure of the democratic process and so untrustworthy of the state of Ohio that they wanted to have hundreds…

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November 1, 2004

If you’re like me, you thought the October Surprise was a Red Sox win, but apparently we’re being overruled. The world thinks that Osama’s latest…

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October 27, 2004

The U.S. is not the only place with election year drama. The incoming President of the European Commission was forced to remove the name of…

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October 26, 2004

What does it take to get John Kerry’s attention during a busy presidential campaign? About $3 million. The L.A. Times tells the tale of the…

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October 26, 2004

You might have heard preview cuts of Eminem’s new anti-Bush song, but you probably haven’t seen the video. You know you must be a shitty…

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October 26, 2004

Remember four years ago? When you went to bed thinking your candidate (whomever that was) had been declared the winner (depending on which news show…

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October 22, 2004

Just a few articles over at The New York Times for all of us liberal Democratic patriots… In Without a Doubt, Ron Suskind details the…

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October 21, 2004

Votergasm.com wants you to pledge that you won’t have sex with any non-voters for up to four years. The goal is to boost voter turnout…

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October 20, 2004

What’s a Pope to do? Western Europe is all about the gay married abortionist stem-cell researcher and the Vatican is not amused. Making fun of…

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October 20, 2004

To some of us, homosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism, and hellishly difficult to control. Why some folks can take or leave alcohol —…

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October 19, 2004

George Will outlines the coming Constitutional mess in Newsweek by detailing exactly what Bush v. Gore in 2000 will do for Bush v. Kerry in…

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October 19, 2004

When it comes to who looked more Presidential in the dabates, body language experts agree; Mr. Kerry comes off as comfortable and confident, while Mr….

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October 19, 2004

UK’s The Guardian thought it might be a grand idea to solicit its readers to send emails to voters in the US to remind them…

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October 14, 2004

The Cheneys are in a tizzy about Kerry invoking their daughter when addressing the question of homosexuality as a choice during the final presidential debate….

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October 14, 2004

The government agency in charge of airport security spent nearly a half-million dollars on an awards ceremony at a lavish hotel, including $81,000 for plaques…

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October 14, 2004

The Washington Post checks the candidates’ assertions from last night’s final debate and finds that both are, as usual, finding the “facts” to fit their…

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October 12, 2004

Attendees at Bush rallies treat the man like the second coming of Elvis Christ, reserving their biggest cheers for his calls for limiting jury awards…

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October 12, 2004

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the case of whether or not displaying copies of the Ten Commandments on goverment property is constitutional. It…

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October 12, 2004

The Log Cabin Republicans, the pro-gay (whatever that means) gay Republicans, plan to file suit today to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ludicrous and…

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October 11, 2004

Today is National Coming Out Day, whether you knew that or not, so don’t be surprised if someone you know (or you) comes out. Coming…

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October 7, 2004

Taking a page from The Republican Handbook on Dirty Politics, I thought I’d take one of Dick “I am the personification of EVIL” Cheney’s statements…

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October 7, 2004

Predictably, and because at this stage there’s really nothing else he can say, George “It’s Hard Work” Bush said that the report that says there…

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October 7, 2004

In this story: Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons Program was touted publicly, then came official gag order, we hear that the Air Force is currently…

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October 7, 2004

So a sense of civic duty and love of the Bill of Rights isn’t enough to get you off your sweet patootie and to the…

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October 7, 2004

Vice President Cheney announced today that the final report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — which concluded that there haven’t been any since 1991,…

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October 7, 2004

More on Cheney’s debate mistake: The V.P. had hoped to show that evidence on a Web site proved that the charges Edwards was making against…

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October 6, 2004

For those of you who missed last night’s Vice Presidential Debate live from Cleveland, here’s a capsule recap: “You said Iraq and 9/11 were the…

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October 6, 2004

Once and for all, ladies and gentlemen, there never were any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Sure, yes, Saddam is…

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October 5, 2004

I bet somewhere in the 32 page document that said what Bush/Kerry could and couldn’t do, it didn’t mention “…and the president can’t just change…

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October 1, 2004

Republicans in Congress are trying to insert a language that would allow the US to deport terrorism suspects to countries known to use torture; this…

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September 30, 2004

Candidates will stand behind podiums exactly 50 inches tall. Candidates may not directly address each other or pose any questions to each other. Only the…

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September 29, 2004

Who’s the bigger flip-flopper, Kerry or Bush? This promises to be one of the key issues of tomorrow night’s circu… uh, presidential debate live from…

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September 29, 2004

Turns out I’m not crazy after all. Slate’s William Saletan details the victories of George Bush—or, rather, how the Bush administration manages to turn every…

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September 21, 2004

CBS News relies on bad information, runs an undersupported story and apologizes. George Bush relies on bad information, spends $200 billion and a thousand US…

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September 21, 2004

Hello, UN guys, Iraq is a mess and I blame you. Sure, I ignored your instructions and just went ahead and did what I wanted…

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September 20, 2004

The Republicans have apparently been in contact with the al Qaeda leadership a lot lately, since it’s clear both Vice President Cheney and now House…

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September 16, 2004

Nature magazine asked both Presidential candidates to comment on a series of scientific issues including stem cell research, nuclear weapons, manned space exploration and climate…

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September 15, 2004

What is it with Republicans thinking the U.S. Constitution needs continual amending? California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher totday proposed amending the Constitution to allow foreign-born…

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September 15, 2004

A few days ago, an Alabama paper broke a story about a boss from hell. Lynne Gobbell put a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on her car…

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September 14, 2004

W. has spun out a new series of commercials claimin that Democratic opponent Kerry’s vision of the future will cost US$2 trillion, but a new…

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September 13, 2004

Remember the little ol’ pill? The one that brought humane conditions to women everywhere, sparked the sexual revolution, and helped millions control and plan their…

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September 13, 2004

Quick, name the crazy lefty that said this on yesterday’s Meet the Press: “I’ve seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and…

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September 9, 2004

Following in the footsteps of conservative punk, there’s now a site for the darkness inside all of us that happens to also vote conservatively at…

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September 8, 2004

I’ve been waiting to hear from the Log Cabin Republicans this election season, seeing how they’re clearly the black sheep of the GOP family. They’ve…

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September 8, 2004

Bush took cocaine at Camp David when Daddy was prez, and Laura B. likes the ganja. …

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September 8, 2004

Following a day in which: The Vice President declared that if he and his boss are not re-elected, thousands of people will die. The Administration…

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September 7, 2004

The Congressional Budget Office released their projections for this year’s budget, which includes the largest deficit of all time, a $422 billion dollar shortfall. And…

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September 7, 2004

Bush most certainly has a way with words, and can say the darndest things when he’s speaking off the cuff, but at a rally yesterday…

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September 6, 2004

Every four years, when a presidential election comes lumbering into view, some tiny, precious percentage of the talk that vomits out of the television turns…

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September 5, 2004

Nothing warms the heart of die-hard Democrats during an election season like seeing senior members of the party bashing their own candidate’s campaign strategy. Forget…

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September 3, 2004

You’ve probably heard Bill Clinton is undergoing bypass surgery for a recent heart attack chest pains, even though he’s looking fitter and thinner than I’ve…

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September 3, 2004

The governator’s childhood recollections at the Republican Convention this week aren’t exactly, well, true, according to Austrian historians. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke of “tanks…

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September 3, 2004

If you happened to miss Bush’s acceptance speech last night, here’s the quick, 5-minute version. While reading, to get the true effect of our great…

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September 2, 2004

Holy crap. I think I just wet myself. This is the sort of picture you show naughty children, to terrify them into obedience. It’s the…

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September 1, 2004

No, it’s not the title of a new Tom Clancy novel, Adam Kutny is a Polish kid who wants to come to the U.S.—specifically, he…

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August 31, 2004

Here, for your edification, are the actual words that went through W’s head today as he backtracked on his assertion that the so-called War on…

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August 30, 2004

The Republicans opened their convention in NYC today, using their usual rhetoric of fear and leadership to tout the current President and his quick reaction…

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August 28, 2004

Like anybody with at least three-quarters of a functioning brain, I’d rather vote for a bag of sand and gravel than George W. Bush. But…

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August 28, 2004

In these troubled times of upheval and national disquiet, it takes the courage, the vision, the forthright determination of one man — one dentist —…

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August 27, 2004

Read this every day….

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August 27, 2004

The International Gymnatics Federation is asking the U.S. Olympic Commitee to ask Paul Hamm to reliquish his gold medal as a show of sportsmanship because…

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August 26, 2004

New figures released by the Census Bureau show that 1.3 million more Americans are now living in poverty, meaning that 12.5% of the population—nearly 36…

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August 25, 2004

If this story were a book, it would be written by Stephen King, because by now it’s all so familiar that you swear you’ve read…

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August 25, 2004

The Republican Party’s official platform is forming for next week’s convention in New York City, and it will probably come as little surprise to anyone…

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August 23, 2004

Just a week before the Republicans take to the airwaves and people tune in to watch them pontificate about whatever it is they’re passionate about,…

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August 20, 2004

It will probably come as a surprise to no one at all that the there are a lot of financial ties between President Bush and…

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August 20, 2004

I missed last night’s Hardball on MSNBC, but it sounds like it was quite a romp. The featured guest was Michelle Malkin, recent author of…

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August 19, 2004

We performed proudly, and even now, as I write this, I’m every bit as proud of the good we did over there as I was…

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August 19, 2004

Did you know that 41 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq so far this month? That 99 have died since the turnover? That over…

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August 11, 2004

Wondering what New York is going to resemble when the Republicans come to town for their quadrannual group-hug? A police state comes to mind. NYC…

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August 11, 2004

Are you Red or Blue? Are you a conservative backwards-thinking anti-choice big-business cheating Republican or a liberal out-of-touch drug-dealing anti-baby lying Democrat? Depending on where…

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August 5, 2004

Apparently, it wasn’t the picket signs or the clergy preaching from the pulpits or the grass-roots campaign of intolerance that cemented the overwhelming approval of…

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August 5, 2004

President Bush, during signing ceremonies for the $417billion defence spending bill stated “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop…

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August 5, 2004

Sure, maybe your mayor can balance a budget, or open a new museum, or participate in Bike To Work Week, but is your mayor posing…

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August 4, 2004

I love the BushCheney shirts over at conservative swag store Metrospy. This shirt gets to the point (yeah, goddamned faggots getting in the way of…

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August 3, 2004

Hey! Guess what? Lynndie England? Right? That private in Iraq smoking the stogie and pointing and smiling at crotches of prisoners? You know? Stacking them…

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August 2, 2004

We draw the following conclusions based on Democratic National Convention operative Bryan Mason’s list of signs printed up for the floor: twice as many people…

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August 2, 2004

The level of security in New York, New Jersey and Washington DC was upgraded to Orange, or “High” over the weekend based on some intelligence…

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July 30, 2004

Forget the crap about blue states vs. red states in terms of voting. Check out this map, which shows change in unemployment rate since…

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July 30, 2004

Bushwack came out of his vacation hole and started his “Heart and Soul of America” campaign tour, telling the people who already like and believe…

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July 30, 2004

The yellow power tie is long dead. The red power tie has had its day. It is now officially the era of the blue power…

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July 26, 2004

If you thought the brouhaha about who gets to be married and who doesn’t has gone away in light of the recent constitutional amendment defeat,…

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July 26, 2004

On Saturday night, 60 Democrats gathered for dinner in Boston and pitched in $5 a piece on a betting pool regarding how long Bill Clinton’s…

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July 23, 2004

From the L.A. Times comes a story about how the rest of the world will watch the Democratic and Republican conventions with interest, while we…

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July 22, 2004

They couldn’t pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, so congressional Republicans are trying the next best thing; making it illegal for federal judges to…

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July 22, 2004

Republicans are sweating just a little over the continued success of Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. A recent Gallup poll reports that 8% of American…

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July 22, 2004

Oh, where to begin? President Bush vaguely sketched out his second term plans and, in a nutshell, he said he’s going to stay out of…

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July 20, 2004

A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning the burning of the American flag won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee and now heads to…

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July 19, 2004

Proving that homos are perhaps the last minority Americans are still allowed to openly mock and humiliate, California Fuhrer Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would not…

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July 19, 2004

“See, now, if they wouldn’t go naming themselves so close and all, then, well, we wouldn’t be in this pickle,” President Bush did not say…

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July 15, 2004

Feeling wistful that you have no power in the democratic process? Thinking to yourself, ‘hmm, I wonder what I could do to start being proactive…

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July 12, 2004

In a move we like to think is directly attributable to glassdog’s tone of mocking derision and wealth of usless trivial flotsam masquerading as “content,”…

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July 12, 2004

Although it is generally agreed that the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment currently being debated in Congress is doomed to fail, that isn’t stopping conservative activists…

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July 12, 2004

Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife Lynne stated over the weeknd that her husband doesn’t normally “fuck,” and prefers instead to “put a sock in it.”…

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July 9, 2004

In a statement that, you know, is fairly meaningless and has no bearing on anything of interest to anyone, even though, hey, some people are…

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July 9, 2004

Is it the hair? The smile? The rapier wit? His turn of phrase? What exactly was it that broght John and John together at last?…

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July 9, 2004

The U.S. Senate opened debate on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage today, but even proponents know it’s a losing cause—for now. Supporters are…

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July 8, 2004

A politician stupider than George Bush said that he thought a little girl’s name meant “stupid, dirty girl.” California Eductaion Secretary Richard Riordan said this…

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July 8, 2004

Department of Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge warned today that Al Qaeda wants to screw with our electoral process in some vague, unspecified but ultimately…

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July 8, 2004

Probably perfectly reasonable given his schedule and certainly nothing can be read into it, but President Bush is the first President of the United States…

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July 7, 2004

It used to be said that on the Web, your URL is everything. Unfortunately for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, KerryEdwards.com is already owned… by Kerry Edwards….

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July 7, 2004

President Bush used his rapier wit and team of speechwriters to fire a barb at Democratic Vice Presidential hopeful John Edwards today, stating when asked…

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July 7, 2004

In case you were wondering what the federal government takes more seriously, your privacy or protecting public morality, we’d like to point out that when…

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July 6, 2004

An interesting article at LATimes.com details how the Bush White House so effectively stage his appearences to make sure the President always looks impressive, even…

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July 2, 2004

Here’s a story sure to light up your face this Independence Day weekend! President Bush’s re-election campaign has issued a guidebook to church congregations asking…

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July 1, 2004

Rarely to obscure educational books gain national attention, but rarer still do they have such famous fans….

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June 25, 2004

I’m sure you’ve read about it by now—I’m sure everyone’s read about it by now—but in the off-chance you missed it because… who knows why,…

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June 24, 2004

In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court today upheld the Presidential right to confidentiality (including, in this case, the Vice President) over Dick Cheney’s private…

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June 23, 2004

The reaction to that one-second boob flash just keeps going and going and going. The latest threat to our collective moral fiber—namely, scenes of filth,…

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June 23, 2004

Add America West, Frontier Airlines, Continental Airlines, and the Sabre and Galileo International reservation systems to the list of airlines and travel companies giving up…

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June 22, 2004

Fearing that the general erosion of all things decent and moral can be tracked directly to the egregious trend of allowing same-sex couples the same…

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June 21, 2004

The San Francisco Chronicle details some of the many instances of the Bush/Republican Party manner of using the church as a political pulpit, including beaming…

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June 18, 2004

Realizing that their golden boy is floundering under a barrage of negative news out of Iraq and a wheezing economy, Senate Republicans will take the…

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June 17, 2004

“The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq…

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June 15, 2004

A group of former diplomatic and military officials are going on the record to state that Bush’s foreign policies are screwed. That’s paraphrasing, I don’t…

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June 14, 2004

Did Bushwack ask the Pope to sic his bishops on their flocks to provide pressure against same-sex marriage in the weeks leading up to the…

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June 14, 2004

The Washington Post has published the Justice Department memo [PDF] stating that sometimes, you know, it’s okay to torture someone. But only sometimes, and only,…

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June 14, 2004

Saying that he could not legally speak for his daughter, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the “one nation, under God” suit broght by a California…

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June 10, 2004

A report issued in April that the Bush administration used to show that Bush’s efforts to curtail terrorist attacks was working wonderfully apparently should have…

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June 10, 2004

The Los Angeles Times released a new presidential poll that pushes Democratic hopeful and incredibly dull candidate John Kerry out front 51% to 44%. Results…

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June 9, 2004

Step One: Turn your re-election Web site into a thinly veiled political endorsement from a dead guy masquerading as a tribute. Step Two: Bring him…

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June 9, 2004

Not really sure what the waiting period usually is on making light of the dead, but the Web reduces the lag time on everything. We…

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June 8, 2004

The New York Times managed to get their hands on a confidential 54-page Pentagon document prepared by Defense Secretary and Satan Worshiper Donald Rumsfeld that…

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June 2, 2004

It turns out that the President’s supporters were right and the invasion of Iraq wasn’t about blood-for-oil. I mean, Jesus, I’m paying $2.35 a gallon….

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June 2, 2004

It turns out that the President’s supporters were right and the invasion of Iraq wasn’t about blood-for-oil. I mean, Jesus, I’m paying $2.35 a gallon….

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June 2, 2004

The Los Angeles County board of supervisors have decided to remove a small cross from the county seal rather than face a lawsuit from the…

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May 31, 2004

The Bush/Dick campaign machine is coming out with both barrels firing at Kerry early and, unsurprisingly, using half-truths and incorrect “facts” in a series of…

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