Category: National Blogs
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Herman Cain Didn’t Pay Taxes, and Other Daily Reading
He may have had the best possible excuse, but it’s always fun to note when Herman Cain doesn’t do things he should do (or does things he just plain shouldn’t). Cain, evidently, failed to pay Georgia income taxes in 2006. I can’t speak to the exact nature of what was going on in Oakland, but…
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Time To Share Those Embarrassing GOP Videos
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new website that allows enterprising video snatchers to upload and share their embarrassing GOP videos with each other. Could be viral, maybe not, but it’ll still be an interesting read for me for this cycle. Including Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio, and other GOP asshats in my daily read…
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Men We Love: Matt Taibbi
Whether it’s his appearances on The Bill Maher Show during the 2008 election or his piercing writing about the financial crisis: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. Taibbi has just returned from his…
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A Modest Proposal
You know, I’m thinking President Obama should just go ahead and nationalize all US-based assets of BP Global. Cause there are those who will insist he’s a socialist/fascist/whateverist no matter what he does. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer company. Just kidding. Kind of.
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Top Kill May Have Worked
Video looks promising. BP says it will know for sure tomorrow. Oh and the spill is “several times worse” than originally thought. I don’t care who you are,the magnitude of the spill is completely incomprehensible. And yes this is, and should be, Obama’s Katrina.