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Meet Wendy Davis, ‘liar’ and ‘bad mom’
When Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis was filibustering a draconian anti-abortion bill last June, and vaulting to Democratic celebritydom, you ...
11 years ago
Clueless on chemicals: “No data available”
Consider this a cautionary tale about the evils of non-regulation, because when it comes to chemicals, we are all West Virginians. ...
11 years ago
Christie’s woes spark Republican freakout
The stuff Republicans are saying about Chris Christie ain’t very pretty. Tuesday’s gubernatorial swear-in was supposed to chr ...
11 years ago
Obama rightly decries the racist war on weed
Maybe it’s just that President Obama feels free to say what he thinks because he doesn’t have to face the voters again. Or ma ...
11 years ago
Martin Luther King, speaking for himself
To many Americans, the phrase “Martin Luther King Day” is a synonym for “no school” and “no m ...
11 years ago
Fifty years later, winning the war on cigarettes
Rather than lament what’s wrong about America (our default reflex), here’s something big on the upside: We no l ...
11 years ago
Gun justice: A Florida texter gets the death penalty
This week’s Second Amendment Well-Regulated Militia Award goes to the pistol packin’ citizen who blew away a guy at ...
11 years ago
GOP’s Christie defense: “But but Benghazi!”
Rather than simply acknowledge that the George Washington Bridge scandal was a flagrant abuse of power, Chris Christie’s GOP defend ...
11 years ago
Tea party nirvana in West Virginia
Why have tea-partying conservatives stayed mum about the hazardous chemical spill in West Virginia? Maybe because they’d look monum ...
11 years ago
Inside the Fox News political machine
We’ve long known, of course, that Fox News is a right-wing propaganda shop masquerading as a journalism outlet, but never before ha ...
11 years ago
Christie plays Sgt. Schultz: “I see nothing! I know nothing!”
Chris Christie’s spin session was longer than Robert Redford’s broken boat movie, All Is Lost. We don& ...
11 years ago
Team Christie’s vengeful road rage
Let us ponder New Jersey’s thugocracy, where the guy in charge gives new meaning to the term ...
11 years ago