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Build a Wall: Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump’s Alternative To The Demographic Californication Of America
This recent quote from Rush Limbaugh surprised me: If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California. There isn’t a single Republican in statewide office. There never will be in the future. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, donald trump, immigration, Republican party, rush limbaugh
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The Mighty Limbaugh Has Struck Out: What Limbaugh Being Dropped From KFI Means
Clear Channel owns both KFI (perhaps the largest radio station west of the Mississippi, broadcasting from Los Angeles and reaching much of California and Nevada) and KTLK (a radio backwater, also based in LA, with a very narrow signal range, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Baby Boomers, California, KFI, Millenials, radio, Red State, rush limbaugh
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Fair is Fair: Like Abortion, Slavery Should Be a Matter of Choice, Not Illegal, Says Chisago County Republican Party
It’s the kind of image and message you’d expect to stumble upon at a white supremacist website, and it’s been taken down after outrage about it spread, but the Chisago County Republican Party in Minnesota posted on its Facebook page … Continue reading
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Is Obamacare a Train Wreck?
In today’s NYT is an article on the initial failure of the Obamacare website’s functioning (healthcare.gov) that nevertheless contains a ray of hope: Administration officials have said there is plenty of time to resolve the [portal] problems before the mid-December … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, health care, insurance, obamacare, rush limbaugh, train wreck
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Invoke the 14th Amendment: Sean Wilentz’s Must-Read Advice to President Obama
Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian, has written for the NYT today an absolutely must-read essay on the looming debt default crisis, how it would violate the 14th Amendment to actually let the country go into default, and what President Obama … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th amendment, debt default, economy, john boehner, Michelle Obama, Obama, Republicans, rush limbaugh, Ted Cruz
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Kill Obamacare or Republicans Will Default on the Debt and the Global Economy Will Die!
Historian Anne Applebaum bottom-lines Republican hostage-taking: Obamacare is the law, as confirmed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our political system. A portion of one of those branches is therefore not now legally or morally empowered to change that … Continue reading
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Obama “Willy Wonkas” the Republicans
President Obama has exactly the right strategy for dealing with the tantrum-throwing/government shut-downing/anti-Obamacare Republicans: Willy Wonka them.
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Republicans Want to Shut the Government Down
They can barely contain themselves. In fact, they’re flush about it. This was in The New York Times yesterday: The mood in the Capitol on Saturday, at least among Republicans, was downright giddy. When Republican leaders presented their plan in a … Continue reading
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The Republican Party and the Samson Option
Andrew Sullivan wrote the following yesterday: Today we discovered just how radical the House GOP is: threatening to blow up the entire faith and credit of the country in order, among other things, to build the Keystone Pipeline and effectively nullify the last … Continue reading
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Tagged fanaticism, Red State, Republican party, rush limbaugh, The Samson Option
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