Yearly Archives: 2011

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) To Retire

Two-term Sen. Ben Nelson (NE) has announced his retirement, spurring renewed fears that the Democrats will lose their Senate majority in 2012. Nelson has consistently been one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, and during the very brief period in 2009 in which the caucus held 60 seats, his was usually the toughest vote to secure. Still, no …

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Hysteria At Kim Jong-Il’s Funeral

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Feds Crack Down On Airline Advertising

A couple of weeks ago I kvetched about undisclosed charges on Spirit Airlines, a carrier I’d never flown before and that I’d booked through Orbitz. JMG reader Kevin sends us this today: Beginning Jan. 24, the Transportation Department will enforce a rule requiring that any advertised price for air travel include all government taxes and fees. For the last 25 …

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Argentina’s Pro-Gay President Has Cancer

Kirchner signed the bill legalizing same-sex marriage last July.

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Michael Musto As Donald Trump

From Musto’s year-end recap column: New York became fun again in 2011! Thanks to a global economic meltdown! The lingering desperation in the air brought down our emotional walls, and New Yorkers became friendlier and more open than we’ve been in ages, most of us no longer propped up by elitism as we reached out to one another like we …

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Chuck Colson: We Aren’t Imposing Christianity, We’re Proposing It

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Crusaders, Mr. Brownshirt?

Interesting choice of words from the all-Catholic, Gingrich-funding, Vatican lackeys at NOM.

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New From Rick Perry

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Tomorrow: Dear Leader’s Funeral

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DC Intro’s Gay Divorce Bill

The Washington DC City Council has introduced a gay divorce bill. Because if you got gay-married in DC, you probably can’t get gay-divorced in your home state. In a little noticed development, D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) introduced a bill in October that would allow same-sex couples who marry in D.C. but live in states that don’t recognize their …

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Iowans For Crazy Eyes

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Unsurprising Ron Paul Tidbit

Michael Heath, the head of Ron Paul’s Iowa campaign staff, is also on the board of directors for Peter LaBarbera’s SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality. In 2009 Heath headed Maine’s Christian Civic League. More at Box Turtle Bulletin.

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Afternoon View

The eight year-old watched dispassionately as Uncle Joe assembled his gift. Then he played inside for five minutes. Then he returned to the couch where he is surrounded by his Nook, his iPod, his Wii, his DS3, etc etc etc. When it stops raining I’ll drag the tent into the backyard and see if that spurs any interest.

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Ron Paul’s Newsletters Get Tweeted

Somebody is tweeting out Ron Paul’s infamous newsletters, line by bigoted racist line.

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Fake Cover

It was rather amusing seeing who got taken in.

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TRAILER: Game Change

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Store Closures For Sears/Kmart

The stock price of Sears/Kmart is plunging today upon news that the retailing giant will close over 100 stores in the next month. Sears Holdings said sales at stores open at least a year, a closely watched retail measure known as same-store sales, tumbled 5.2% in the eight weeks ended on Christmas Day. That came from a 4.4% drop in …

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Did Nixon Have A Gay Affair?

According to a new biography of Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick had a long-running gay affair with Mafia-insider Bebe Robozo, who was investigated for acting as a money-carrying middleman between Howard Hughes and Nixon. Fulsom uses recently revealed documents and eyewitness interviews — including with FBI agents — to shed new light on long-standing suspicions among White House insiders that Nixon …

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Wingnut Rabbis Denounce Mitt Romney For Trying To “Homosexualize” America

Rabbi Yehuda Levin is the douchebag that blamed the murder of an eight year-old boy on God’s anger at the passage of same-sex marriage in New York.

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Turn Off All Electronic Devices

But not because you’ll crash the plane. “The power coming off a Kindle is completely minuscule and can’t do anything to interfere with a plane,” said Jay Gandhi, chief executive of EMT Labs, after going over the results of the test. “It’s so low that it just isn’t sending out any real interference.” But one Kindle isn’t sending out a …

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