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Video: President Obama Announces Gov’t Will Stop Deporting Some Young Immigrants

Even though some may think this is a cynical political move in an election year (strange calculation, since Obama already had the Hispanic vote sewn up), you can gauge by the scalded-cat reaction of the Usual Suspects on the Right … Continue reading

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Conservative Sarkozy is Bounced as Socialist Francois Hollande Wins the French Presidency

Something important I neglected to post earlier this week. After a flirtation with conservatism, France and other countries, like Greece, have had it with austerity measures and the other debilitating features of pro-wealth, anti-public rule.  Conservative Party British PM David Cameron … Continue reading

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The Band’s Levon Helm Dead at 71

RIP, Levon. Here’s a report from CNN: Levon Helm, co-founder of The Band, dead at 71 By Todd Leopold CNN updated 4:23 PM EDT, Thu April 19, 2012 (CNN) — Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band … Continue reading

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Video: Wolf Blitzer Losing Big on “Celebrity Jeopardy”

Keep in mind “Celebrity Jeopardy” is the version where Alex Trebek gives a bunch of easy ‘answers’ so the celebs won’t be embarrassed. BTW, according to the You Tube post, “when Blitzer answered ‘defendant’ and ‘annotated’ it was for a … Continue reading

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Video: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is an Unbelievably Clueless Jerk

So-called ‘journalist’ Wolf “Larsen” Blitzer browbeats an apology to Ann Romney out of CNN colleague Hilary Rosen for telling the truth (read her full comment), apparently completely unaware that his paternalistic attitude is one of the things that most women … Continue reading

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Florida Prosecutor in Trayvon Martin Murder Trying to Run Out the Clock

Florida’s Republican a-hole Medicare-fraud Gov. Rick Scott appointed Angela Corey as a ‘special prosecutor’ to determine if charges should be brought in the Trayvon Martin murder. Corey then announced she would send the evidence to a grand jury, until today. … Continue reading

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Olbermann Now Definitely Out at Current TV

Time to take the question mark off of my post of Jan. 13, 2012, “Is Olbermann Out at Current TV?” Keith’s been fired, apparently for not playing nice with Al Gore and the rest of Current management. Here’s the ‘letter … Continue reading

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The Shameless Smearing of Trayvon Martin Begins

Why some righties want to defend nutjob George Zimmerman is beyond me, but the typical right ‘smear the victim’ campaign has started. Here, Zimmerman’s lawyer says he was attacked and beaten by Trayvon and sustained a broken nose — gee, … Continue reading

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Stephanie Miller and Bill Press Shows Premiere on Current TV March 26th

Finally, an early morning alternative for progressive political junkies to MSNBC’s execrable “Morning Joe” and whatever flash-bang waste-of-time the moribund CNN has on. (With apologies to CNN’s Don Lemon, who tries to do a good job.) Not worth consideration are … Continue reading

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Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

No comment except to say that, even though I disliked Breitbart and what he did, I wouldn’t wish an early death on him. Here’s a link to the obit from CNN: Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies at 43 By the … Continue reading

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