Blog Profile / Firedoglake
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Blog Post Archive
Come Saturday Morning: Republicans Bad and Good
The theme this week is Republicans Bad and Good. In a spasm of relative generosity, I'm only going to name one Bad Republican, and overbalance this by naming two Good Republicans.
Pull Up a Chair
One of my favorite people had a birthday this week, David Attenborough turned a happy healthy 87 on Wednesday. He started the day inaugurating Tweet of the Day, a new weekday show on BBC 4 radio wherein he and other naturalists present a very brief minute and a half on a native English bird, the first being the cuckoo.
Late Night: IRS Apologizes for Doing Its Job
Amazing, how conservative front groups funded by far-right hyper-rich folk like the Koch brothers and the Coors family can in essence whine that just because their groups' names are pretty blatant in their political coding, doesn't mean they aren't tax exempt after all.
Fatster’s Roundup
? Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) says Obama could be impeached over Benghazi and accused Hillary Clinton of a “‘forceful attitude’ you usually ‘don’t hear from women’.” ? One woman was found alive today in the rubble of the garment factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh. Show More Summary
Hunger Striker Younus Chekhouri Describes the “Nightmare” Inside Guantanamo
The World Medical Association states, “Forcible feeding is never ethically acceptable. Even if intended to benefit, feeding accompanied by threats, coercion, force or use of physical restraints is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment. Equally unacceptable is the forced feeding of some detainees in order to intimidate or coerce other hunger strikers to stop fasting.”
Why Gays Get Angry – When the ‘Butt Sex’ Christian Meets the Discredited Researcher
No matter how the religious right (and unfortunately a few members of the media) attempt to turn the momentum of marriage equality into a debate of whether Christians are now the victims of bigotry and lgbts are the perpetrators, it will always come back to the video above to refute that point.
The 501(c)3 Grift That Keeps On Grifting
For the life of me I can’t imagine why the IRS would pay special attention to groups comprised of common-sense moms with no non-profit experience and various other grifters who know an easy mark when they see one, particularly when the whole basis of the Tea Party is to get out of paying taxes for fear that those tax dollars might be spent on Poors and Blahs and Youngs.
9 Questions the Press Won’t Ask About Cumulus vs. a Flaming Gasbag
Have you noticed the Cumulus v. Rush stories in the press lately? What makes me crazy is thinking about all the questions that could be asked of the distributors, media corporations and the people who have made money or spent money on right wing media. Show More Summary
Elizabeth Warren Wants Students to Have Same Privileges as Wall Street
As a recent study indicates that college and universities are giving financial aid to rich students at the expense of poor ones Senator Elizabeth Warren is offering a bill to bring student debt relief. Warren says students should get the same rates as Wall Street.
Immigration System Seen as Highly Dysfunctional
No other part of our government’s bureaucracy, including our tax system and health care system, is seen as more broken than our immigration system. It is viewed as almost uniquely dysfunctional.
Did an Undercover FBI Agent Entice Tunisian Student Linked to Canada Terror Plot to Commit Visa Fraud?
The United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Ray Kelly, the New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, have stopped another individual from committing an act of terrorism. So it seems.
More Indications Biden Is Thinking About Another Run
As long as Biden is possibly considering a run it at least means activists on the left have a small point of leverage over this lame duck administration.
Heritage Foundation Faces Backlash Over Immigration Report
Jim DeMint’s coming out party as head of the Heritage Foundation is not going very well. The conservative think tank’s immigration report – which labels the cost of immigration reform at $6.3 trillion and was co-authored by a white supremacist – has caused a backlash against the group from prominent Republican lawmakers and party donors. Show More Summary
The GOP War on Hillary Clinton Begins Anew
Now that Republicans see attacking a lame duck provides only diminishing political returns they have once again set their sights squarely on Hillary Clinton. Yesterday's Benghazi hearing was all about trying to tie blame to Clinton.
State Department Demands Takedown of 3D Printable Gun Files
Shortly after Defense Distributed released the first open source 3D printable gun the government has found an angle to try to stop it. According to the U.S. State Department posting the blueprints online for the 3D printable gun may have been a violation of U.S. export control laws.
Peter Van Buren: If the Government Does It, It’s “Legal”
Indefinite detention of the innocent and guilty alike, without any hope of charges, trial, or release: this is now the American way. Most Americans, however, may not care to take that in, not even when the indefinitely detained go on a hunger strike. Show More Summary
Fatster’s Roundup
? Latest from that horrific building collapse in Bangladesh in April: 1000 bodies have now been found.
? Three weeks ago Rust Consulting sent almost 100,000 checks to homeowners “as compensation for foreclosure abuses”, but the checks bounced. Show More Summary
Knowin’ how to pick ‘em continued
Yesterday I posted about how former Senator, freak, and current Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint managed to put out a factually laughable immigrant bashing report put together in large part by a bigot. But the bigot, Jason Redwine, is so much, so very much more.
Late Late Night FDL: I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
Amy Winehouse -- I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know.
Late Night: The Last Throes: Way Underrated
To any outside observer, the Republican Party of 2013 would appear to be toast. They've lost the popular vote in five of the last Presidential elections, won nearly 2 million less votes in the House, are failing to gain younger voters...Show More Summary