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1. Alert WV Bonds! The Middle-Class has gone commie!
2. As expected, the Great El Dorado Polygamist Fiasco leads to very few actual cases of abuse;
3. John McCain: Foreign Policy Sooper Genius!
4. Texas: Bluer than you might think;
5. John McCain and...Ralph Reed (Abramoff's old pal. Remember him?);
6. More commentary on the horrific San Francisco Peaks case. If someone poured massive amounts of urine on a white Christian church, would the "...only effect..." be on the parishioners' "....subjective, emotional religious experience" and therefore unworthy of court protection?

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Stupidity on Parade

1. Republicans call for appointing Fox to guard Henhouse;
2. Toby Keith has his pudgy finger on the pulse of "the Black Society";
3. That little popping sound you heard? That was the last little bit of John McCain's soul dying;
4. Turns out I was right. Who'da thunkit?
5. Something else we're importing from China.

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1. MSM still pimping for McCain, or at least the "OMFG!1! Teh race is close!!" meme;
2. Bush decides to totally bend the knee to the Mooslum hordes;
3. Attorney-client privilege, schmivilege! Welcome to Texas!
4. Start countdown for Tele-Pharisees to shift argument from "evil unelected librul judges" to "Californication will fall off into the ocean!"
5. "America has the greatest health care delivery system in teh world!"

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1. Reaganism is dead, and Dubya killed it;
2. Do white people have a problem with Obama? Or just Appalachian white people?
3. McCain's campaign "organization" is starting to scare an already-jittery GOP;
4. And speaking of John McCain, he can't even be bothered to vote on a GI Bill he opposes;
5. Obama took note of this;
6. Fortunately, John Cornyn was available to wallow in his own crapulence;
7. But Saint McCain drove the tele-Pharisees from the Straight-Talk Express!
8. Handicapping the Veepstakes;
9. New York Governor concerned that allowing the Oneida to get a small portion of their stolen land back will work a hardship...on those who benefitted from stealing it;
10. And, lastly, where has the ACLU been during the YFZ fiasco? Inquiring minds want to know!

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1. Like the Great and Powerful Kos, I, too, was wondering how long it would take the Right Wing Howler Monkey Media Chorus to invoke the dread spectre of perfidious trial lawyers threatening FISA with their bloodthirsty desire to sue innocent, freedom-loving media conglomerates for, you know, breaking the law;
2. Don't feel bad, Senator Clinton; nobody in Texas understands the Texas Democratic Primary system, either;
3. To paraphrase the words of the late, great Sir Winton Churchill, there is some shit up with which I will not put;
4. If you love Barack Obama so much, why don't you marry him?
5. Chet Edwards joins the cult;
6. John McCain's soul has evidently been put up as collateral;
7. Don't stand so, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me;
8. In case you were wondering how long it would take some puling Right Wing asshole to blame the victims in the Illinois college shooting, you didn't have to wait too damn long;
9. Why do the troops hate America?
10. I guess this means Rush Limbaugh won't be his campaign manager (with the nickname "Whitey") anymore;

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1. (Some) Republicans like Obama because he isn't teh Hitlery. Who is satan;
2. Or maybe they like him because he keeps using their talking points;
3. But whatever the case, they REALLY hate Hillary. And the mysogyny flows like wine when they get going. But it's teh libruls who are fascists. No, really;
4. John McCain was for his immigration bill before he was against it;
5. The media is still lying about Bill Clinton. Yes, I was shocked, too;
6. The Surge is working! = civilian deaths are down but we are nowhere near to achieving the stated goals of the surge, namely political reconciliation. Shut up, librul facist! Teh Surge is working!
7. The First Superbowl, a heartwarming tale of history;
8. Also, it's not really entirely clear how well the Surge is working. And McCain gets it wrong;
9. Not a big surprise, but the US Military is stretched too thin to effectively deal with a serious attack here at home;
10. Romney: not dead yet?

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1. Back home in Texas, we call this irony;
2. Obama's South Carolina victory, perhaps not surprisingly, comes from a dramatically large turnout of younger voters;
3. Not sure I agree with all the thoughts in this article about a post-American Hegemony world, but the conclusions are...disturbing at best;
4. Romney and McCain battle it out to prove who would prolong Dubya's bloody, fruitless quagmire the longest;
5. The Five Stages of Republican Grief;
6. Blue Gal shares my annoyance (though I think for slightly different reasons) over Senator Obama's Jiminy Cricket bipartisan naivete. One pictures him calmly discussing the "audacity of hope" as Republicans seek to impeach him for using White House funds to mail his Christmas cards. Also, btw Blue, no one will EVER use the words "bitter," "old" or "hobo" to describe you;
7. Drum remains unimpressed. Also possibly grumpy;
8. Shorter Dubya: "Constitution, shmonsitution"; and
9. Meanwhile, the Huck just keeps on getting dumber every day.

News McNuggets

1. Harold Meyerson on why the coming Recession may be different (i.e., worse) due to the structural instability of the American economy and why classical Keynesian solutions may not work;
2. Imagine the news if a former DEMOCRATIC Congressman had been indicted for laundering money for terrorists;
3. McCain and Giuliani may be toast as they move into states with closed primaries (i.e., ones where Independents and Democrats cannot vote in a Republican primary);
4. The Huck has taken to shameless flim-flam in order to pretty-up his earlier shameless pandering to the Religious Right. A real profile in courage, but he still drives the economic royalists crazy with all his nonsense about Jesus caring for the poor;
5. Health insurance companies are heartless scum. Try to contain your astonishment. Thank God we don't have that "socialized medicine" where healthcare is "rationed," huh?
6. Mr. Pot? I'd like you to meet Mr. Kettle, you fat, sanctimonious bastard

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1. Well, apparently we really are water-boarding, it really is torture, and it doesn't work. Oh, and the Democrats knew about it but wimped out;


2. Oh, good GOD! Is there ANYTHING else horrible, malefic and evil that can come out about our corporate mercenary army in Iraq? Or have we at long last hit rock bottom?


3. This seems highly unlikely to me, particularly in light of this;


4. Republican corporate welfare is destroying public lands. And apparently, even Republicans (from Idaho, no less) are getting pissed about it. Yes, I was shocked, too;


5. Mike Huckabee--like Dobson only with a charming avuncular veneer over the screaming paranoid crazy nougat center;


6. CIA or CYA?


7. Why do the troops hate the troops?


8. State Rep. Phil King an early favorite for an Arlene Wohlgemuth Award (the coveted Arly). More on why King's idea is moronic;


9. Blue Alaska?
10. Iraq: militarily, doing a little better. Politically (the whole point of The Surge)? Not so much. And by "not so much" I mean "not at all."

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A variety of editorials on the Freedmen Controversy:

1. Indianz.com;
2. Indian Country Today (noting that Cong. Watson is using thinly veiled stereotypes that don't help the debate);
3. Mike Graham; and
4. The Muskogee Phoenix (bravely taking a wait-and-see approach).

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1. Cong. Zack Wamp (R-Tennesse and a Cherokee) teams up with Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Illinois) to name the main entry hall on the $592 million boondoggle Capitol Vistors Center "Emancipation Hall," in honor of the slaves who orginally built the Capitol;
2. E.J. Dionne with some of his usual thoughtful commentary on the ongoing disintegration of the Republic Party;
3. Hamas captures the Gaza Strip; yet another disaster for Bush's Foreign "Policy";
4. The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments are failing mentally wounded veterans. Pretty sad that this just isn't shocking anymore;
5. And just before the tiger finally devoured him, Trent Lott realized he had made a fatal mistake in ever thinking he could ride it;
6. Privitizing justice, shockingly enough, seems just not to work;
7. Turns out legal immigration ain't running too smoothly, either.

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1. Anti-war Marine veteran attacked by Corps for...being an anti-war Marine veteran;
2. God bless Alabama. I won't hold my breath waiting for Georgia to apologize for nvnadaulatsvyi;
3. Fred Thompson shows his "outsider" cred by wooing one of Karl Rove's hack sidekicks. Oh, and Cong. Zack Wamp totally has a man-crush on him. Get a room!
4. Dubya appoints a Flat Earth political hack to head up a scientific agency. Yes, try to contain your amazement;
5. Lou Dobbs: still crazier'n a shithouse rat;
6. US Attorney targeted by Rove for helping Indians too much. Also here. You just knew this would all get back to us eventually, right?
7. Hugo Chavez: low-rent thug;
8. Tom DeLay: now with 50% more delusions of grandeur!

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Texans' lungs granted temporary reprieve.

Merely a coincidence! Pay no attention to the shifty-eyed lame excuse for a faux cowboy governor behind the curtain!

Republicans in the Legislature plan latest "conservative" "small government" plan to ignore the State Constitution and destroy the budget. Says Speaker Tom Craddick, "It's just a bunch of whiny poor sick kids!"

Joe Lieberman threatens to abandon all pretense.

White House calls withdrawal of (some of) Britain's and all of Denmark's troops from Iraq "proof of success." In a related story, Britney Spears also denies loosing all touch with reality.

Republicans fund terrorists!

John "Maverick" McCain boldly shows his straight-talkin', common-sense, independent style by calling for the repeal of the Enlightenment.

All in all, it's just another brick in the wall...