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Our National Nutsack

Isn’t revisiting the abuses of the last eight years, no matter how bad they were, a luxury we can’t afford?
No, it isn’t, because America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past, our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals. But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for. “This government does not torture people,” declared former President Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it.

Torture In Context

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …

Humping The Leg Of Habeus Corpus

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Obama Denies Habeas Corpus colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest In a pretty sharp attack against the Obama Administration’s apparent shell game of shutting down GITMO only to outsource its constitutional problems to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, Stephen Colbert does his faux mentor Bill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly …

Amygdala Politics: How Glenn Beck Destroys Your Brain

Right wing fear monger, genus glennusbekasaurus Anger is like a stone thrown into a hornet’s nest. —The Urantia Book Anger interrupts the functioning of your frontal lobes. Not only do you lose the ability to be rational, you lose the awareness that you’re acting in an irrational way. When your frontal lobes shut down, it’s impossible to listen to another …

All Hail Satan?

Who says wingnuts don’t have a sense of humor. Seriously. Who else would play Obama’s speeches backwards to try and find messages addressed to Satan.

The Party Of No Clue

The seemingly always inebriated, chain smoking and perennially tanned Rethuglican House Leader John Boehner (German pronunciation “Boner”) insisted this week on releasing a 19 page, numbers free budget, a supposed alternative to the Democrats’ plan. Reeling from charges that the Rethugs are “the party of no” – no ideas, no ethics, no clue– and despite pleas from less insane party …