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America Is Divided by Religion

March 2nd, 2009
No real surprise, but the liberal/conservative divide in the US falls pretty closely in line with the religious/non-religious divide.
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Harkin Is Disappointed

March 2nd, 2009
Senator Tom Harkin is disappointed that an alternative medicine center he helped to fund has been disproving alternative therapies. “One of the purposes of this center was to investigate and validate alternative approaches. Quite frankly, I must say publicly that it has fallen short,” Harkin said. The senator went on to lament that, since its [...]
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Joe the Congressman Would Assault His Colleagues

February 25th, 2009
Wurzelbacher has been pondering a run for Congress and said, “If I became a congressman I would literally bang people's heads together and probably get in a lot of trouble.” Literally!
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President Bush Is Clearly Not Brain Dead

September 12th, 2008
PolitiFact tracks the truth + lies that politicians tell. For instance, John McCain has racked up 6 “Pants on Fire” grade claims. Neither Barack Obama nor Sarah Palin have been that egregious (though Obama does have a number of “False” and “Barely True” claims). I was very curious to check out what Joe Biden’s two [...]
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Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote

September 12th, 2008
Republicans in Michigan are planning to to challenge the right to vote of people undergoing foreclosure. via Boing Boing
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Why the Campaign Is So Nasty

September 11th, 2008
John McCain tells us whose fault it is that his campaign is nasty, two-faced, and built almost entirely on utter horseshit: He also said the campaign’s negative tone “would have been very different if Senator Obama had accepted my request to appear in town hall meetings across America.” It’s Obama’s fault.
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Wrestling for the Presidency

September 11th, 2008
via Ffffound
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John McCain Doesn’t Know What Circular Logic Is

September 2nd, 2008
In defense of his own executive experience, Barack Obama pointed out that his campaign is a larger organization than the Anchorage suburb that Sarah Palin was mayor of. John McCain’s campaign called this circular logic. The McCain campaign, happy to talk about Obama’s experience, calls his using his campaign as an example “desperate circular logic” [...]
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