Charlottesville alt-right update: "Come here, ya JEW!"
Many of you read this week of a gathering of White-nationalist, “alt-right” individuals who demonstrated at night with tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA a few days ago, to protest the city’s plan to...
View ArticleContact info for undecided senators on Trumpcare.
The quickest, most minimalist diary ever: Here are the five senators identified by Talkingpointsmemo as on the fence on the taxcut-for-billionaires-and-denying-people-healthcare bill now before the...
View ArticleTime to review Glenn Reynolds' "Run Them Down."
In light of the devastating attack in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend, in which (among many other acts of violence) a car was rammed into a crowd of people protesting White Supremacists, killing...
View ArticleUPDATE 3: New DNC web ad nails it: the "Romney-Ryan-Akin platform for women."
I am impressed, actually flabbergasted at how this new web ad from the DNC connects the dots. It starts with Akin's infamous line, then traces it to the fraudulent Dr. Willke, then points out that...
View ArticleGotta admit -- new Romney vid is MOVING. Game changer?
As per usual practice, the Romney campaign has prepared a video to introduce the candidate to the world for his big moment at the convention, and today they leaked a teaser of it. People have been...
View ArticleThe Real Benghazi Scandal.
We now know that CBS News ran a fraudulent story on 60 Minutes about the Benghazi tragedy. The security contractor Dylan Davies told a story to the network that now appears to be complete fiction, but...
View ArticleSpeaking of Solomon Northup -- Save Shockoe Bottom.
A lot is known about the life and ordeal of Solomon Northup. For example, it is known that he was taken by the prominent slave trader James Burch, a pillar of commerce in Alexandria, VA, from...
View ArticleMeet the toughest political ad in memory: "Republican Cuts Kill."
The Agenda Project Action Fund has come up with the most brutal, direct political ad I think I've ever seen. It ties the Republican budget-cut mantra directly to the disastrous slashing of CDC and NIH...
View ArticleLaura Ingraham shouts it from the rooftops: DailyKos was so, so, so right!
[Hat tip: TPM.]In response to Jeb's much-discussed gaffe of explaining that if he knew what we now know he would still have invaded Iraq, extreme right-wing partisan and Fox-news commenter Laura...
View ArticleHorrific anti-Muslim terrorist plot thwarted: "We will cut them to shreds."
Maybe I am the last to hear about this. A group based in Tennessee and led by a gentleman named Robert Doggart had planned to attack a Muslim community near Hancock, NY (right in the middle of the...
View ArticlePlease support TAA -- regardless of your view of TPA.
Many of us have been following closely the issues of Fast Track (or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP),...
View ArticleSea change on the Confederate flag -- an opportunity for Virginia?
I am flabbergasted that we suddenly seem to have consensus in this country that the Confederate flag is not an acceptable thing to fly on public buildings. Even Republican leaders seem to be...
View ArticleCharlottesville alt-right update: "Come here, ya JEW!"
Many of you read this week of a gathering of White-nationalist, “alt-right” individuals who demonstrated at night with tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA a few days ago, to protest the city’s plan to...
View ArticleContact info for undecided senators on Trumpcare.
The quickest, most minimalist diary ever: Here are the five senators identified by Talkingpointsmemo as on the fence on the taxcut-for-billionaires-and-denying-people-healthcare bill now before the...
View ArticleTime to review Glenn Reynolds' "Run Them Down."
In light of the devastating attack in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend, in which (among many other acts of violence) a car was rammed into a crowd of people protesting White Supremacists, killing...
View ArticleHey, rape survivors: It's your own fault for being "naive" and "unprepared,"...
State Senator Amanda Chase represents the 11th Senate District of Virginia, which includes Amelia County and part of Chesterfield county, west and south of Richmond. According to the Virginia State...
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