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The Mahablog

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The Mahablog · 1d ago

A Terrifying Glimpse Into the Rightie Brain

If you’ve been monitoring the rightie blogs today, you’d notice they’re all raging about some guy named Brett Kimberlin. Some of them have been going on about Brett Kimberlin for the past few days, and for the life of me I couldn’t make out why they were so enraged about Brett Kimberlin. One blog po
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The Mahablog · 1d ago

Arsonists Target Atlanta OB-GYN Clinics

Someone may be making the war on women literal. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that there have been a series of burglaries and arsons in the Atlanta area targeting abortion clinics and OB-GYN practices that don’t do abortion. In other words, they’re going after any clinic or practice that
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The Mahablog · 2d ago

The Phantom Spending Binge

Rex Nutting at WSJ Market Watch wrote that under President Obama, federal spending has increased at its slowest rate since, well, a long time. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end i
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The Mahablog · 3d ago

Dear Cardinals: Stop Being Dicks

According to Cardinal Dolan, if the Obama Administration insists that women who work for Catholic hospitals must get contraceptives paid for by health insurance, even though the Catholic Church doesn’t have to pay for the contraceptives itself, the Catholic Church will be strangled. Visit msnbc.com
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The Mahablog · 5d ago

When Smart People Are Really Stupid

At the New York Times, Nicholas Confessore writes about the continuing fallout from Citizens United. … for a growing number of strategists and operatives in both parties, the very nature of what it means to work in politics has shifted. Once wedded to the careers and aims of individual candidates, t
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The Mahablog · 6d ago

Obama Behind Plot to Blow Up His Own Headquarters!

You’ve probably heard that a sting operation caught three young men who allegedly planned terrorist activities to protest the NATO summit in Chicago. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the three “allegedly plotted to firebomb President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s N
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The Mahablog · 1W ago

The Embargoed Truth About Job Creation

This is an astonishing story I’ve been struggling to wrap my head around this morning as I wait for the coffee to drip. “TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate ‘ideas worth spreading,’ says W
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The Mahablog · 1W ago

Rev. Wright? Seriously?

The New York Times: A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from. … … The plan, which is aw
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The Mahablog · 1W ago

Games Republicans Play

Since the country apparently has no real problems that Congress needs to be addressing, Republicans in Congress have invented a game called “let’s defeat Obama’s budget.” Here’s how it works – Every few months, to fight the boredom, some Republican will crank out some farce legislation and submit it
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The Mahablog · 1W ago

Freedom and Feudalism

Today’s conservative is someone who confuses freedom with feudalism. Or, put another way, he is someone who wears a “liberty or death” T-shirt while marching in support of oligarchy. Michael Lind points out in “Why Do Conservatives Hate Freedom?” that historically conservatives have always opposed i
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