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Newt Gingrich On Climate Change

“I’m an amateur paleontologist. I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” – Newt Gingrich, speaking at an Iowa town hall. So now he’s a historian AND a paleontologist! Amazing.

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Happy New Year!

Yet another eventful year has come and gone for this here website thingy. In 2011 we saw over 20 million pageviews on over 10,000 posts on which you crazy kids left over 1.2 million comments. Each of those figures are up about 25% on last year, so…go US! As I mentioned in this post last year, blogging is like a …

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Obama Signs Defense Act

Over the loud objections of many progressives, today President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which, among many other things, includes a GOP-authored provision for the indefinite and untried detention of terrorism suspects. Obama had threatened to veto the bill because of that issue, but today said: “The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not …

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Current Voter ID Requirements

As we’ve discussed here, GOP and Tea Party-dominated state legislatures have been frighteningly successful in their campaign to create voting roadblocks for young, black, and immigrant voters. All of those groups traditionally vote for Democrats. Visit this interactive map for the current requirements across the nation. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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GOProud’s Best Year Ever?

That “best year ever” bar has been set pretty low, hasn’t it? Let’s recap, shall we? In 2011 we saw GOProud publicly disinvited from the nation’s largest annual wingnut conference. We saw GOProud denounced and ridiculed by conservative icons. We saw GOProud members involved in two laughable “hate crime” incidents that were widely mocked across the blogosphere as having been …

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Live Cams From Times Square

At this writing midnight is some eleven hours way, but as you can see there are already thousands of people crammed into the pens across Times Square. You can watch the craziness live from a number of cams in different locations.

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