TagsTagsBefore leaving the governorship of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney and his top aides spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to hide and/or destroy public records of his term in office, including all of Romney's email correspondence. Reuters reports that this isn't illegal, but it should be. (Reuters) - Mitt Romney spent ...
Congratulations to the FBI for stopping another potential terror attack long before it could happen: Massachusetts Man Accused of Plotting to Bomb Washington. His alleged plan to attack the Pentagon — detailed on two thumb drives that he delivered to the undercover agents, the affidavit said — involved using three ...
Here we go again. Fox Nation shrieks: School Tells Child to Take Down Drawing of American Flag! This leads to hundreds of raging right wing comments. For example: nam_vet6869 2 hours ago WAKE UP AMERICA, WE ARE BEING OVER RUN BY THE SOCIALIST AND THE PRESIDENT IS HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN. It's also ...
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Oops. Scott Brown voted the wrong way on the Senate jobs bill, and now he has tea party heartache. Comment by Relentless_Righteous_and_Right 31 minutes ago Great. Another marxist. Case closed. Thanks, Scott. Guess we’ll have to wait another 6 years to find a real Conservative to fill the dead kennedy’s seat. ...
At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing To Be Unfamiliar With Tea ...
Massachusetts, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism, Extremism
Chris Cillizza has a piece on the Democratic blame game in full force in Massachusetts. Less than 24 hours removed from state Attorney General Martha Coakley’s (D) stunning loss in the Massachusetts Senate race, Democrats were at daggers-drawn over whose fault it was. Two rival camps quickly emerged: Coakley’s campaign ...
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
Republican Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, running on a platform driven by populist resentment, with a main plank of “killing” health insurance reform.
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
The Massachusetts election is going down to the wire. Here’s a thread to discuss it. (I’m typing this on my iPhone in an airport, so excuse the terseness.)
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
Anybody want to talk about Coakley vs. Brown? It’s looking like right wing tea party candidate Scott Brown will ride to victory on a wave of Fox News-fueled populist anger, so here’s a thread to discuss it. (Yes, I’m still traveling, and won’t be back on solid ground until late ...
Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Coakley, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism
There’s been another terror-related arrest today, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where a man was allegedly planning attacks on politicians and a shopping mall. As with all the recent terror-related arrests, Tarek Mehanna apparently never even got close to carrying out any attacks; the FBI was on to him every step of the ...
The theocratic, anti-civil-rights, paleoconservative, conspiracy-mongering John Birch Society got together with the anti-science, conspiracy-mongering, young earth creationist writer James Perloff yesterday in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, for a good old-fashioned evening of atavism: Darwin refuted and disputed at John Birch Society meeting. After years of well-deserved marginalization, the John Birch Society is ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Massachusetts, John Birch Society, paleoconservatism
Saudi Prince’s Wife Charged With Enslaving 2 Women. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) (CBS4) WINCHESTER - A Saudi woman will plead guilty in court on Tuesday for allegedly forcing two Indonesian women to be her domestic servants in Winchester. Hana Al Jader will acknowledge she violated federal laws, according to her lawyer, Joseph ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court says that prisons should serve special meals to Muslim criminals—meals including oxen and camel: State hasn’t justified withholding Muslim feast-day meats. BOSTON - The state’s highest court has ruled that the state prison system has failed to justify denying a Muslim inmate special feast-day meats, such ...