On Friday Palin lied — she took a quote from an Obama speech out of context and used it to imply that the President doesn't like America as much as real Americans. Now the AP have lent her their credence.
Jerry Schweighart, the Mayor of Champaign, a city of 75,000 people, was asked what he thinks of Barack Obama. The President of the United States of America. "I don't think he's American, personally," he responded.
Temple, Texas, now allows — nay encourages — teachers in its 14 schools to paddle any unruly kids. Apparently in Texas, as in 19 other states, corporal punishment is not illegal. Those states are (almost) all southern.
Hey, there's a Tea Party going on in Washington DC right now. Old white people are responsibly protesting socialism and also the fact that our president is Kenyan. Pic via Dave Weigel. (One more from Ana Marie Cox!)
Mississippi: leading the fight for resegregation. Happy Confederate History Month, everyone!
Since leaving office last July, Sarah Palin has made at least $12 million. (According to ABC's The Blotter, so the real figure is probably more like a zillion dollars, if this Palin character even exists.) So there you have it.
In a speech last night Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate and current figurehead for idiocy, ramped up her attacks on Obama and showcased her new catchphrase: "Don't retreat! RELOAD!" Which, she insists, is not a call for violence.
The church, the same one that pickets the funerals of killed soldiers, arguing that their deaths are a way of punishing America for tolerating homosexuality, have decided the miners who died in an explosion this week were sinners.
Tea Partiers are planning a Tea Party outside the home of Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin. And there are "people threatening him," according to Kent Conrad. Frumin, of course, was appointed Parliamentarian after the Republicans fired the old one for ruling against them in a reconciliation matter.
Republicans scored a major victory this morning when they found two minor drafting errors in health care reconciliation sidecar, making passage of the legislation legislation take one day longer than it would've otherwise.
For the second day in a row, Senate Republicans decided to quit working at 2 p.m., because they are really cranky. And also Senate rules allow people to shut it down unilaterally, at 2 p.m..
Texas might execute another innocent man tomorrow.
More than half of self-identified Republicans don't blame banks for the financial crisis. Pollsters didn't ask who they do blame, but I'm guessing it's "blacks, poors, Nobama, Barney Fag and ACORN."
The Iraq War is seven years old. No one responsible for it is in jail.
First, Desiree Rogers refused to acquiesce to Sally Quinn's demand that she be an old person from Georgetown. Then she let some losers into a party. Now we learn that she forgot to send Christmas cards to rich people!
Important national security news: anthropomorphic representation of post-collapse America's spiritual bankruptcy Spencer Pratt is going to start a "cybersecurity venture," FoxNews.com can confirm.
American Commander-in-Chief Lindsey Graham has been keeping himself incredibly busy lately, tackling all the tough issues that the American people sent him to Washington to fix. Let's look at some of his efforts.
Eric Massa is going to resign after all. And then tomorrow he is going to be on Glenn Beck. Here is his comical radio talk about Rahm Emanuel attacking Massa in the shower, without his towel on.
"ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan." -Famous GOP expert on black history Michael Zak. It's totally true!
Kings County DA Charles Hynes says "no criminality has been found" after his investigation into ACORN. Earlier reports from the former Massachusetts DA ACORN hired to investigate themselves and the Congressional Research Office also found no evidence of law-breaking.
