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A wise man once told me, "When you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one that gets hit is the one that yells first and loudest." Yesterday, the NAACP threw (emphasis added):"Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people -- including tea party leaders -- to condemn racism within the tea party movement. "We feel it's very important that we educate our membership about the tea parties," said Anita...

Given their history, why anybody would give one ounce of credibility to any Republican and their faux concern about deficits is beyond me. But for those few amnesiacs who did, John Kyl should have cleared that up yesterday with this:<br />"Surely Congress has the authority, and it would be right to -- if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those...

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, Or else I'll bust a cap in somebody's ass. Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship.[...][State Representative Henry] Burns' [R-Haughton] bill would authorize persons who qualified to carry concealed weapons having passed the training and background checks to bring them to churches, mosques, synagogues or other houses...

We knew this would happen, but who knows how to stop it. When I was driving home from Louisiana this weekend I saw the following billboard:Reagan BillboardWe all saw Sen. Graham's comments earlier and that alone was a cup of cold water to the face. The Republicans have held the White House for 20 of the past 30 years. Many think Bill Clinton was more pro-business than most Democrats, so if you include him you...

Free marketers and Libertarians always decry any government involvement in business, bemoaning "interference", "government takeovers", "socialism", and "tyranny" whenever the administration or Congress enacts legislation or regulation to stabilize markets or make them more fair.  Their prescription for all ails is tax cutting and unrestrained free trade where the "market" will self regulate and benefit all who can afford to play.  They advocate wholesale elimination of the EPA, Department of Education, Department of Health, dismantling...

What a difference 5 years (and a Democratic president) makes when it comes to Supreme Court nominees. Orrin Hatch today: "Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced Friday that he will vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The Utah Republican voted to confirm Kagan as solicitor general, but suggested in a statement that she would put her personal views ahead of the law if confirmed to the court. "The law must control the...

In an interview with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, was asked to defend a 1995 statement in which she said, "the tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine." Angle's response was that "Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted...out of context." Watch:<br />OK, here's Thomas Jefferson in context, from his often-quoted letter to the Danbury Baptists:"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies...

CBS News reports that 82.5% of Louisiana's National Guard is sitting idle while Feds and BP try to get the oil spill under control. The party of 'state's right's' rhetoric seems to have this backwards.  When it comes to legislation, they want the federal government completely out of it.  When it comes to disaster, they want the feds to pay the bill while their own resources sit idle.  While they complain - constantly - about 10th...

Commenting on a Huffington Post piece about how Republicans and Ben Nelson (excuse my redundancy) appeared poised to kill the tax-extenders bill in the Senate, which they succeeded in doing late yesterday, Steve Benen at Washington Monthly wrote: "In the real world, this means millions of jobless Americans will lose their already-modest benefits, and hundreds of thousands of workers will be laid off over the next year, including teachers, police officers, and firefighters. All of this...

I'm confused. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said on Fox News Sunday last week that "we have had virtually no oil" on the beaches of his state:&lt;br /&gt;He repeated it to John King on CNN:"We have not had any of oil onto Mississippi's beaches. We had one intrusion on one of the barrier islands. It came up one day and washed out the next day and left no uhh... you couldn't even tell it had even...