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Newtown Mom Francine Wheeler Delivers the President’s Weekly Address (VIDEO) UPDATED
Written on 13.04.2013 at 11:12
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
In an unprecedented move in the tradition of the President’s weekly address, private citizen Francine Wheeler, whose son Ben, 6, was one of the 20 first graders murdered by a …
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Bachmann Fundraiser (Cartoon)
Written on 13.04.2013 at 10:41
By CAGLE CARTOONS
This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction strictly prohibited.
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Senator Mitch McConnell’s Twitter Feed?
Written on 12.04.2013 at 13:35
By DOUG BURSCH
I don’t follow any senators on twitter as I use twitter primarily for meaningless purposes. However, the other day I happened upon a promoted tweet by @Team_Mitch. After I …
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Trying to pull Republicans back from the political cliff
Written on 12.04.2013 at 11:59
By PRAIRIE WEATHER
The party has moved so far to the right that it is in danger of falling apart.
For decades, they’ve made a devil’s bargain with the Religious Right, and now …
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Signs Republican House Will Kill, Dismember, or Delay Any Senate Gun Control Measure
Written on 12.04.2013 at 10:27
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
No matter what happens in the Senate on gun control — now being called “gun safety” since the old phrase is considered too potent — don’t expect it to a)emerge …
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The NRA and Gun Safety (Guest Cartoonist)
Written on 12.04.2013 at 0:42
By Guest Voice
The NRA and Gun Safety
by Mike Peters
OF RELATED INTEREST:
–The Crack in the NRA’s Facacde
–21 NRA ‘A’-Rated Senators Part Of 68-31 Vote To Defeat Filibuster Of Background Check Bill
–NRA Looking Increasingly …
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Save Our Schools From Creationism (Guest Voice)
Written on 12.04.2013 at 0:14
By Guest Voice
Save Our Schools From Creationism
by Tina Dupuy
I was raised as a creationist. I’d come home from school with a brain full of evolution and an enthusiasm for T-Rex and my …
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Report: Progressive Group Behind McConnell Audio Tape
Written on 12.04.2013 at 0:00
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
It now turns out that the secret audio of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and advisors discussing how to in effect smear potential Democratic opponent Ashley Judd was not like the …
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US Senate agrees to debate gun bill
Written on 11.04.2013 at 20:04
By Guest Voice
US Senate agrees to debate gun bill (via AFP)
The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the nation’s most ambitious gun safety legislation in almost two decades, after a bipartisan group …
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Obama Must Face Up to Post-Assad Syria Now! (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saudi Arabia)
Written on 11.04.2013 at 14:09
By WILLIAM KERN (Worldmeets.US)
Has American non-intervention in Syria reached the point of diminishing returns? For Saudi Arabia’s Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, columnist Tariq Alhomayed expresses extreme disappointment with the Obama Administration, which he contends is …
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A Vast Majority of Veterans Support Firearms Background Checks
Written on 11.04.2013 at 13:06
By DORIAN DE WIND, Military Affairs Columnist
A vast majority of men (and women) — 91 percent — who know most about guns, who are best with guns, who have used guns in the line of duty, …
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Jay-Z Releases New Track “Open Letter” Mocking Republicans Outrage Over Cuba Trip
Written on 11.04.2013 at 13:01
By JANET SHAN
Jay-Z is hitting back at the critics, specifically the Republicans, who questioned his and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba, in a new rap track, mocking their anger. Florida Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and …
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In Afghanistan, NATO Now Committing Bald-Faced ‘Murder’ (Der Spiegel, Germany)
Written on 11.04.2013 at 12:18
By WILLIAM KERN (Worldmeets.US)
Is the war in Afghanistan now a pointless exercise that entails murdering people until the time for withdrawal arrives next year? For Germany’s Der Spiegel, Jakob Augstein expresses consternation about …
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Obama Has Another Dinner with GOP Senators: Another “Meal Deal?”
Written on 11.04.2013 at 10:41
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Are some politicians now doing the 21st century unthinkable — and slowly, gradually, tentatively, reaching across the aisle and talking with those on the other side rather than just demonizing …
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Mitch McConnell’s ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Dirty Politics Campaign
Written on 11.04.2013 at 5:17
By WALTER BRASCH, PH.D.
Bound in a political black hole from which truth never escapes, Sen. Mitch McConnell and his staff launched a “scorch-earth” attack to divert the public from the facts on the leaked tape was the far greater sin than what was said.
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Two Conservative Lives
Written on 11.04.2013 at 0:01
By E.J. DIONNE, JR., WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST
WASHINGTON — Two important conservatives departed this life within days of each other. One was a world-historical figure with extravagant political gifts, and she rarely harbored …
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Michele Bachmann Runs Away From Press Again
Written on 10.04.2013 at 11:24
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
The REAL question of the hour is: is Rep. Michele Bachmann trying to make physically running away from reporters an Olympic sport? The latest 100 yard dash:
At a joint press …
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FiliBLUSTER McConnell (Cartoon)
Written on 10.04.2013 at 11:14
By CAGLE CARTOONS
This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized use of this cartoon without licensing from Cagle Cartoon is strictly prohibited.
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Report: Bipartisan Deal Reached on Background Checks
Written on 10.04.2013 at 10:37
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
CNN reports that a bipartisan deal has been reached on background checks:
- Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, plan to announce a bipartisan deal on background …
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Jim Inhofe, Senator “No No”
Written on 10.04.2013 at 3:01
By DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Managing Editor of TMV, and Columnist
Jim Inhofe, from Oklahoma, a Republican senator, is going to probably have to wear thick makeup to cover his embarrassment at using the grieving souls from the Newtown massacre, …
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Republican Senator James Inhofe Insults Newtown Victim Families
Written on 09.04.2013 at 23:43
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
What you are about to read in this news report is indicative of how partisanship, lock-step ideology, and political hatred so skewers a politician’s view and his assertions that he …
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Nietzsche on Parties
Written on 09.04.2013 at 12:15
By SEAN MCELWEE
“In every party there is one member who, by his all-too-devout pronouncement of the party principles, provokes the other to apostasy.”
- Human, All-to-Human
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Cheney vs. Clinton in 20xx?
Written on 09.04.2013 at 10:07
By DORIAN DE WIND, Military Affairs Columnist
One is 46, the other one is 33.
One is a Republican, the other one is a Democrat.
One is the daughter of a vice president, the other one is the daughter …
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Perceptions of America’s Political Parties
Written on 09.04.2013 at 9:37
By ROBERT A. LEVINE, TMV Guest Voice Columnist
It is obvious that Republicans, Democrats, and independents, have differing views of the characteristics and values of the two political parties. This was reinforced by a recent Gallop Poll (http://goo.gl/aYs4c) …
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Jim Carrey is Funny, But That Doesn’t Mean He’s Always Right
Written on 09.04.2013 at 9:08
By SEAN MCELWEE
Carrey is a great actor and a great stand up comedian. He makes persuasive arguments through humor in his stand up and his movies (Truman Show). But in writing, the argument just isn’t there; the piece comes off more like a livid Youtube comment.
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Sequester Cuts: Not In My Backyard! (Guest Voice)
Written on 09.04.2013 at 8:55
By CAGLE CARTOONS
Sequester Cuts: Not In My Backyard!
by Dick Polman
Back in the winter, Republicans were perfectly happy to let the sequester happen. They hewed to their math-challenged belief that Washington could slash …
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Republican Filibuster of Gun Control Now Official? McConnell Joins Filibuster
Written on 08.04.2013 at 22:33
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
You can now bet the bank on it: if attempts at even the tepid parts of barely-surviving gun control proposals that proponents are now trying to get through the Senate …
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Zack Kopplin on Real Time with Bill Maher
Written on 08.04.2013 at 16:59
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Texas college student and staunch science advocate Zack Kopplin has done some Guest Voices on TMV (go HERE for his take on Bobby Jindal and creationism, and HERE for his …
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Is the National Republican Congressional Committee Ashamed of the Word “Republican?”
Written on 08.04.2013 at 15:20
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Some years ago there was a lot of buzz when as fried foods came into disfavor in various media stories and then Kentucky Fried Chicken became known as “KFC.” Other …
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Would the Republican Party Accept Thatcher?
Written on 08.04.2013 at 15:14
By SEAN MCELWEE
Mr. Gandelman asks American conservatives to cover their ears because Thatcher raised the alarm about climate change. That’s not all!
ThinkProgress notes that Thatcher supported the NHS (“It delivered …
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Quick: American Conservatives Cover Your Ears
Written on 08.04.2013 at 14:31
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Quick! American conservatives cover your ears: the late Margaret Thatcher sounded the alarm on climate change, David Frum reminds us.
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George Galloway’s Partisan Hack Tweet on Margaret Thatcher
Written on 08.04.2013 at 11:42
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
Lest you think that only American partisans are capable of over-the-top, name calling political hackery which reflects on them when they go over the top, just look at this controversy …
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