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Archived Since:January 31, 2008

Blog Post Archive

Rand Paul Continues Attacks on Clinton Over Benghazi

Click here to view this media Sen. Rand Paul continued with his charges from earlier this week that former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton had "her fingerprints all over these talking points" on the Benghazi attack and claims that she never "really accepted culpability" because she failed to resign shortly after the tragedy. Show More Summary

Jennifer Rubin Accuses David Shuster of Using 'Media Matters Talking Points'

Click here to view this media (h/t Heather at VideoCafe) If we've done anything successfully in the last nine years, C&L has proven without a shadow of a doubt the conservative projection phenomena. Anything that conservatives accuse the other side of doing is because they themselves are guilty of it. Show More Summary

Paul Ryan: IRS Connection to Obamacare Is 'Rotten to the Core'

Click here to view this media Former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday used the news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had scrutinized tea party groups to slam the agency's connection to President...Show More Summary

Rove Says His Super PAC Is Same as NAACP Because It's for 'Social Welfare'

Click here to view this media Republican strategist Karl Rove says that Crossroads GPS, which is a part the American Crossroads super PAC that he founded, is a legitimate tax-exempt organization because it promotes "social welfare" like...Show More Summary

Pfeiffer to Fox News Host: 'Offensive' to Suggest Obama Let Americans Die in Benghazi

Click here to view this media White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday told Fox News host Chris Wallace that it was "offensive" to suggest that President Barack Obama had allowed last year's attacks in Benghazi that killed four...Show More Summary

Gregory Asks War Criminal Rumsfeld For Thoughts on Government Accountability

Click here to view this media Yes, who better to ask about "government accountability" than war criminal Donald Rumsfeld? It seems the producers of Meet the Press and host David Gregory are doing their best to become a parody of FoxShow More Summary

Concha: Bloomberg Involved in Scandal Because It's His Company

Click here to view this media (h/t Heather at VideoCafe) It's a little surprising that this story hasn't gotten more traction, because on its face, it's far more egregious than the AP 'scandal'. If you haven't heard of it, a little background: Reporters...Show More Summary

Bachmann Pushes Lie That IRS Will Kill People as 'Enforcer of Obamacare'

Click here to view this media Here we go again with more fearmongering from Fox and crazy-eyes, lying wingnut Rep. Michele Bachmann. The scandal-mongering continues with more attacks on the IRS. Now, not only is the department evil incarnate...Show More Summary

Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo

On Friday, May 17, the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, joined by Code Pink and other political action groups from the U.S. and the U.K., launched Operation Guantanamo to mark the 100th day of a hunger strike within...Show More Summary

The Myth of Privacy in a Google Age

It's incredibly ironic that after years of the Patriot Act, and actually sitting on information that the Bush administration had been monitoring millions of Americans' communications without warrants that the media is now up in armsShow More Summary

France Signs Gay Marriage Into Law

Just one day after France's Constitutional Council approved the country's gay-marriage and adoption bill, French President François Hollande signed the bill into law. Although it was adopted by both the Senate and the National Assembly...Show More Summary

Maddow: Fair Game to Disclose Names of Republicans Who Lied to ABC News

Click here to view this media After taking her viewers through the whole, long, ugly mess with ABC's big "scoop" on the Benghazi emails and the how the story pretty much fizzled out by the end of the week with the discovery that Republicans...Show More Summary

Mike's Blog Round Up

Bluestem Prairie - idiot GOP Rep hates butt sex, United Nations, lots of other things; Dependable Renegade - umbrellas?... really GOP? Joe.My.God - a gay man shot to death in... Greenwich Village? Sadly, No! - Benghazi forever! Towleroad...Show More Summary

Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread

Elvis Presley -- Suspicious Minds We're definitely caught in a trap and I don't know that we can get out. Every single person outside the Beltway who lived through the Clinton years has to remember that the Republicans were relentless in their pursuit to take down the presidency. Show More Summary

Open Thread with C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round Up

Happy Saturday night, folks! It's Blue Gal from The Professional Left Podcast, bringing you this week's podcast round up. Be aware that these podcasts are also available on i-Tunes, and may not be safe for work. CNN / The Big Three (new podcast): Interview with Rep. Show More Summary

C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Candlemass

Title: Bewitched Artist: Candlemass Nightfall (Original Edition) Artist: Candlemass Saturday!

Heritage Foundation To GOP: Attack Obama, Don't Govern

Jim DeMint's Heritage Foundation is busy at work figuring out how to make sure Republicans are completely marginalized in 2014. As their faux scandals fall apart as rapidly as they're concocted, DeMint's minions are instructing EricShow More Summary

It's Time for Bankers to Go to Jail!

Joe Stringer of ACCE, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment talks about why he is going to Washington, DC to risk arrest at the Department of Justice. Stringer,in Los Angeles talks about how the foreclosure crisis has...Show More Summary

Human Rights Watch: Syrian Government Practiced Torture

Interrogation rooms with wooden boards used to immobilize detainees, are among the evidence of torture Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered in Syria. Proof of torture -- that's what Human Rights Watch says they've uncovered in Syria. Show More Summary

Radio Host Says He "Wants To Shoot Hillary Clinton In The Vagina"

Ordinarily I wouldn't give this kind of a story attention, but the radio host who said that disgusting thing has somehow gotten enough traction in radio-land to attract the likes of Larry Pratt and Ted Nugent. Plus, I've had my own personal...Show More Summary

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