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Guest blogged by GrassrootsLobbyist: I appreciate Mike Huckabee.  Gov. Huckabee is the kind of politician America needs more of.    Now, don't get me wrong.  I disagree with about 99% of Huckabee's positions and think he knows about as much about effective fiscal policy as Sean Hannity knows about honesty and integrity.  However, he has proven to mostly be a man who offers an opinion but will respect the opinion of others and give voice...

Presented from the Huffington Post: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system. "We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska....

Republican Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall claims that disabled children are God's punishment on women who aborted their first pregnancy.   Yeah, he really did. "The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically," he said. "Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children." "In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was...

Just as the right scrambles to blame yesterday's plane crash into a building in Austin, TX as a left wing nutjob, about 600 people as of the time of this publication have joined a group called "the Philosophy of Joe Stack" on Facebook. The discussions on the page paint Stack as some kind of "hero" for committing an act of terrorism that " is no different than what was going on in this same land...

We've heard the cries that "it's time to stop being politically correct and start profiling Muslims at airports!" I contend that it would be an ineffective practice that would make us less safe from terror attacks. When we go through security checkpoints at the airport, every single passenger passes through a metal detector. Shoes are removed and x-rayed. Belongings are scrutinized with x-ray technology by trained security personell. Those that look suspicious, those that...

One would think there would be some limit to the Republican strategy of "no."  If Obama decided to endorse a bipartisan proposed plan that does the one thing every single American could agree we should do, it would be reducing the deficit, right? Wrong. Republicans are opposing a plan to put together a commission of 18 Democrats and Republicans to evaluate different ways to reduce the deficit.  The panel would have until December 1 - after the midterm elections - to produce a...

Pundits all over the political spectrum continue to turn the election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy's senate seat into this weird notion that Democrats should somehow start working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner. This rationale is irritating at best, because it implies that a) the Democrats weren't trying to be bipartisan in the first place and b) the Republicans would acquiesce to bipartisan efforts if the Democrats tried harder. Both are untrue....

Yesterday was the National Day of Strike we talked about here on January 14th.  Well, the best I could find about it was a blog that talked about it being an epic fail.  I think the tea party forgot? Seriously, I can't find any evidence that it even happened?   I'd ask our readers if they felt the economic impact, but I don't expect they did. I really have nothing else to say, I'm just trying to be...

Thank goodness for kissmybigbluebutt.com or I'd have missed the watch party event of the year!  Somehow I was unaware that tonight a debate in Denton, TX between Gov. Rick Perry, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and Debra Medina will be on for an entire hour.  The WWF ain't got nothing on these folks! The Texas Tribune has published a list of TV stations that will be running "Divas Debate in Denton" here.  PBS, Channel 8, will...

Just wanted to share the best piece I've seen yet on the financial crisis - that explains things in terms we can all understand.  If you watch a video online today, watch this one.  MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan narrates.  ...