Alan Grayson: Hates Children, Hates Seniors, Loves Satan

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Winning their hearts and minds

ABC News: The allegations are reminiscent of the military’s darkest days in Vietnam. Again, young GI’s caught up in a difficult war are accused of widespread drug use and the random killing of innocent civilians, apparently for sport or thrills. But the parents of one of the five soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of [...]

Thing One and Thing Two, to Movement Progressives: “Grow Up!”

I wrote much of this a day or so ago but didn’t have time to post it until now. On the completely off chance that someone reading this post hasn’t already heard about the sloppily choreographed one-two punch from President Obnoxious and Vice President Noxious by now, here is a brief replay of their antics. [...]

Make room for Melissa at the loser lunch table!

I saw this righteously indignant rant from Melissa M at Shakesville last night: 1. When I wrote passionate criticisms of a Republican administration and Republican Congressional majority who failed to champion LGBTQI equality, assailed women’s bodily autonomy, treated Roe as a suggestion, refused to disclose lobbyist visits to the White House, invoked the separation of [...]

My mother made me write this.

Hi, people. It’s me, Brooke. I need help choosing a current event to write about for school, so my mom suggested that I ask you… It has to be an event that’s somewhat international, but there aren’t really any other requirements (other than that it should be an actually important event/issue). Any suggestions? Thanks in [...]

Early Morning Cogitation

Morning starts too early in the day. What I’m listening to now: Amazing Grace by Laura Love from her album Octaroon. (Stick with it, it has a great payoff) Here’s the quote I mentioned last night on Conflucians Say: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and [...]

Conflucians Say Tonight on Blogtalkradio

Think Virtually Speaking is the only game in town?  Not so fast.  We started Conflucians Say a couple of years ago.  It’s kind of like The View except we’re unpaid, political junkies who no one has ever heard of.  One thing is for sure: we are the other side of the lefty blogosphere.  You know, [...]

Tuesday News: Voices Crying in the Wilderness

Good Morning Conflucians!!!!! Is anyone else getting the feeling that all hell is breaking loose in the U.S. political sphere? Maybe it’s just my usual apocalyptic viewpoint on events, but I’m getting a sense of time speeding up as we approach the midterm elections and a feeling that just about anything can happen. Back in [...]

Abandon the last vestiges of Hope™ all ye who enter here?

“Nobody” could have predicted “the first wired president” would seek to wiretap the internet. From that last link (via the Gray Lady): WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as [...]

A profile in self-reflective journalism: Michael Ware (Updated)

This post has been updated; please see the update below on the video links from mickware.info. (If you are reading this on the frontpage, the update is after the Continue Reading jump.) In my last post, I took a look at the progressive netroots and how they have turned into the blogospheric equivalent of the [...]