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LGBT Community Needs to Fracking Chill on Obama and Warren
Sun, 12/21/2008 - 11:08pm | mal contends
Update: Percentage of Americans who believe that God created man pretty much in his present form in one instance within the last 10,000 years: 47 percent. ... Rick Warren is one of these people.
TNR's Kirchick Vindicated for Revealing Ron Paul's Racist Past
Thu, 10/02/2008 - 8:47am | mal contends
James Kirchick who wrote a piece in The New Republic in January knocking down the former candidate for president, Rep. Ron Paul, as a bigoted nutbag has been vindicated.
Steven Walters in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reveals today that "(f)ormer Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will keynote Saturday's session of the 50th anniversary of the Appleton-based John Birch Society."
The John Birch Society, dating back to the 1950s, is infamous for its conspiracy-minded, anti-Semitic, Joe McCarthy-supporting whacks.
Steven Walters in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reveals today that "(f)ormer Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will keynote Saturday's session of the 50th anniversary of the Appleton-based John Birch Society."
The John Birch Society, dating back to the 1950s, is infamous for its conspiracy-minded, anti-Semitic, Joe McCarthy-supporting whacks.
When Will They Ever Learn?
Mon, 09/01/2008 - 10:21am | GlobalGirl
Everything McCain does (from picking the head of Alaska's National Guard to be his running mate to avoiding George Bush at the convention) has a ring of desperation to it as he faces an electoral landslide.
But politicos seem just as desperate to portray the doomed McCain campaign as on the verge of a breakthrough or a game changer.
Now it’s Hurricane Gustav that will help the ailing McCain.
Hurricane Gustav “presents the candidate with an opportunity to show that he would be a different kind of president than Bush” (Washington Post).
John McCain can't stop the storm, but his campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship (Time Magazine).
But politicos seem just as desperate to portray the doomed McCain campaign as on the verge of a breakthrough or a game changer.
Now it’s Hurricane Gustav that will help the ailing McCain.
Hurricane Gustav “presents the candidate with an opportunity to show that he would be a different kind of president than Bush” (Washington Post).
John McCain can't stop the storm, but his campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship (Time Magazine).
John Judis and Mob Come out for Hillary and Chaos TV
Tue, 04/15/2008 - 9:26am | mal contends
via MAL Contends - crossposted at Kos -
Update: Many readers have asked: Why are you quoting TNR? Good question. TNR is good on fiscal policy; and I believe this crap by Judis needs to be knocked down. [But I promise never to even bother with Jason Zengerle who is pure shit.] But Salon is pushing this story too, though more judiciously, in Michael Lind’s piece]. Update II: Maybe Hillary, Judis and Co are on to something; even Patrick Buchanan agrees with them.
John B. Judis knows better.
His piece in The New Republic, Woe Is He, asserts the necessity of the Democratic nominee garnering the white working class demographic.
Update: Many readers have asked: Why are you quoting TNR? Good question. TNR is good on fiscal policy; and I believe this crap by Judis needs to be knocked down. [But I promise never to even bother with Jason Zengerle who is pure shit.] But Salon is pushing this story too, though more judiciously, in Michael Lind’s piece]. Update II: Maybe Hillary, Judis and Co are on to something; even Patrick Buchanan agrees with them.
John B. Judis knows better.
His piece in The New Republic, Woe Is He, asserts the necessity of the Democratic nominee garnering the white working class demographic.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives and Enterprising Writer Should Doom Ron Paul's Candidacy
Tue, 01/08/2008 - 6:38pm | mal contends
Update:
The newest TNR revelations leave no doubt about the bigotry in Paul's repulsive journals. Too bad, I liked Paul's anti-war positions.
If you have not read James Kirchick's first piece on the story, give it a look.
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Good-bye Ron Paul.
James Kirchick at The New Republic has a disturbing piece about the anti-war libertarian candidate for president, Rep. Ron Paul
Kirchick has researched old Ron Paul political newsletters that contain blatantly racist tracts.
And the Wisconsin Historical Society, a repository for such political periodicals just may be responsible for putting an end to a candidacy that has been a thorn in the side of the pro-war GOP.
TNR Embarrasses Itself Again on Mike Gravel
Thu, 06/14/2007 - 11:03pm | mal contends
Weird and skin-raising-yucky receiving the The New Republic Online's "This Week in Politics” e-mail June 14.
The New Republic’s e-mail includes an item entitled “Debatable” by the editors subtitled that “America doesn't need to hear from Mike Gravel.”
Mike Gravel, of-course, is the former Senator from Alaska who famously read into the congressional record the Pentagon Papers, that laid out the lies before and during the Vietnam War that ultimately cost some three million lives, and wreaks havoc even today on untold millions more, including 100,000s of Vietnam-era veterans whom the Veterans Administration is trying to shaft on VA beneits. That’s a bad thing, TNR.