Posted 12:37 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read 
R. J. Eskow on 60 Minutes.

Posted 9:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Alex Seitz-Wald on debunking George W. Bush's cronies' attempts at historical revisionism.

Posted 11:40 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Kelsey Cook's hilarious response to Rebecca Martinson:  

Posted 11:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Gary May on how ALEC and the right use voter fraud as a pretext to attack voting rights.  In the comments section is an insightful post by "Captain America":

This is hardly breaking news. It was manifest a decade ago. In fact, just about every "problem" that demands a right-wing "solution" is manufactured, either out of whole cloth or as a result of previous "solutions":
- Creating budget shortfalls to justify government cutbacks.
- Manufacturing terrorist sting operations to justify the GWOT and constitutional eviscerations.
- Underfunding schools to create bad outcomes, which are used to justify privatization and union bashing.
- Deregulating banks so they can create a bubble and extract the wealth before it pops -- and then bail them out and prosecute their critics.
- Imposing upon foreign nations debt burdens so great that government assets must be sold off to private-sector U.S. campaign donors in a fire sale.
- Taking advantage of the need for immigration reform and piggybacking more HB1 visas on the legislation, even though there are available U.S. workers.
- "War on Christmas," which requires affirmative pro-Christian statements by local governments.
Every crisis is an opportunity, even if you have to create the crisis.

Posted 12:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Lee Fang on the real Watergate

Posted 8:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Dr. Benjamin Carson:

Last week, Carson came under attack for comparing advocates of same-sex marriage with advocates of bestiality and the North American Man/Boy Love Association. He then cast himself as a victim of political correctness, besieged by white liberals — “the most racist people there are” — who could not countenance his heterodoxy and wanted to keep him on the “plantation.”

The plantation metaphor refers to a popular theory on the right. It holds that the 95 percent of African-Americans who voted for a Democratic president are not normal Americans voting their beliefs, but slaves. A corollary to the plantation theory is the legend of the Conservative Black Hope, a lonesome outsider, willing to stare down the party of Obamacare and stand up for the party of voter ID. Does it matter that this abolitionist truth-teller serves at the leisure of an audience that is overwhelmingly white? Not really. Blacks are brainwashed slaves; you can’t expect them to know what’s in their interest.

Posted 8:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Upcoming film about Gary Webb

Posted 10:27 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Views
Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's diploma mill, is intended to created "tens of thousands" of Kirk Camerons. Also, watch Bill Maher comment on Liberty U. last year.

Posted 10:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

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". . .hundreds of millions of dollars throughout 2012."

Posted 1:24 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Desiline Victor on Justice Antonin Scalia

Posted 8:31 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Tracy Thompson, "The South still lies about the Civil War."

Posted 11:45 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Matthew Yglesias on Senator Rob Portman's change of heart about gay marriage upon finding out that his son is gay:

But if Portman can turn around on one issue once he realizes how it touches his family personally, shouldn't he take some time to think about he might feel about other issues that don't happen to touch him personally? Obviously the answers to complicated public policy questions don't just directly fall out of the emotion of compassion. But what Portman is telling here is that on this one issue, his previous position was driven by a lack of compassion and empathy. Once he looked at the issue through his son's eyes, he realized he was wrong. Shouldn't that lead to some broader soul-searching? Is it just a coincidence that his son is gay, and also gay rights is the one issue on which a lack of empathy was leading his astray? That, it seems to me, would be a pretty remarkable coincidence. The great challenge for a Senator isn't to go to Washington and represent the problems of his own family. It's to try to obtain the intellectual and moral perspective necessary to represent the problems of the people who don't have direct access to the corridors of power. . . Senators basically never have poor kids. That's something members of congress should think about. Especially members of congress who know personally well that realizing an issue affects their own children changes their thinking.

Posted 12:02 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Robert Parry on Republican election theft:

Posted 9:53 AM by Scoobie Davis

Happy Anniversary!
Today is the tenth anniversary of Freedom Fries!

Posted 9:20 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Wonkette on Scooter Libby regaining his voting rights.

Posted 2:42 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on Anti-Amway Blog
Read it here

Posted 7:34 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Michael S. Lofgren, "Scientology for Rednecks: What the GOP Has Become"

Posted 10:57 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Anti-Amway Blog
Union activists should picket Amway rallies.

Posted 9:57 AM by Scoobie Davis

WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!
Obama appointed lowlife sleaze Ben Ginsburg to his voting commission!!!!

UPDATE:  BradBlog has more.

Posted 9:08 AM by Scoobie Davis

Greatest Things about The State of the Union Speech
1. When President Obama mentioned 102-year-old Deseline Victor who waited 7 hours in line to vote in Florida--the long lines were intentional.
2. The fact that Ted Nugent didn't crap his pants again.

UPDATE: Conpassionate Conservatism--Fox Mocks 102-Year-Old's Long Wait To Vote. It's not surprising to me that one of the mockers, Bill Hemmer, is a Miami of Ohio grad.

Posted 8:00 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read: Greg Palast's Billionaires and Ballot Bandits
Last fall, I recommended Greg Palast's Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps.  Even though the election is over, the book is still very relevant.  It's scary and a great read.

Posted 3:20 PM by Scoobie Davis

Limbaugh Caller Sylvia from New Jersey Put a Foot to Limbaugh's Fat Ass
Since Media Matters for America has been monitoring Limbaugh, I have listen to Limbaugh's show less often.  I turned it on today and Limbaugh put on a caller, Sylvia from Clinton Township, New Jersey and she let El Rushbo have on the Sandra Fluke matter and started to take him on regarding health care legislation when Limbaugh cut here off.  Limbaugh later called her a "seminar caller."   Seminar caller = someone who can cut through Limbaugh's bullshit.  Essentally that's what Limbaugh accused me of being when I called him during the 2000 campaign.

Posted 3:13 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Michael Lind, "The White South's lat Defeat"

Posted 2:18 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Bob Moser on the current state of democracy.

Posted 10:40 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Robert Parry on the GOP's reversal of fortune.

Posted 10:18 AM by Scoobie Davis

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David Sirota, "Ayn Rand is for Children"

Also, read my post on Paul Ryan and Rand.

Posted 8:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Fox News in 2012

Posted 11:59 AM by Scoobie Davis

Belated Hapy New Year!
Must reads: Michael Tomasky on the neo-Confederacy of Dunces and Michael Lind on recent failed right-wing utopian schemes.

Posted 10:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

A Belated Happy Festivus!


1. My favorite Christmas essay: "All Hail Pottersville" by Gary Kamiya

2. My favorite X-mas film: Bad Santa (directed by Terry Zwigoff (also, see Zwigoff's Crumb and Ghost World). Second Favorite Christmas film: Go. Third Favorite: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

3. Favorite Christmas TV episode: Futurama's "Xmas Story"

4. Favorite Christmas song: "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses:

Posted 12:57 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Anti-Amway blog
Read it here

Posted 2:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on Anti-Amway Blog
I just found out the other day that Scamway's Dick DeVos was one of the people behind the vote to make Michigan a right-to-work state.  Watch this video.

Posted 10:38 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read and Must View
GOP consultant Scott Tranter: Voter ID and long voter lines help "our side"

UPDATE:  Slate's David Weigel has more.

Posted 9:24 AM by Scoobie Davis

Terry McAuliffe for Govenor of Virginia?
Terry McAuliffe is again running to be governor of Virginia (he got trounced in the Democratic primary in 2009 and I celebrated).   Here is my open letter to Democratic primary voters when McAuliffe last made a run.