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Notes from the Republican clown car... or as they like to think of it, presidential campaign. Jeb Bush has been running for the office ever since he noticed that his brother W (for "Worst-ever") did not actually get indicted for treason.  But he's afraid that people…

If we truly had a "liberal media"... h/t Daily Kos

There can be no doubt that the Republicans and the conservative movement in the US are waging war on the humanities. There are actually solid reasons, from their point of view, for the GOP to oppose education in the humanities.  Not for nothing is it called…

As I wrote earlier, the typical Republican presidential candidate has no real hope of getting the nomination, let alone the Presidency. But this article from the Wall Street Journal makes it plain that they are still quite rational to pretend. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson…

There's simply no way Ann Coulter truly, sincerely believes all the insane garbage she spews.  It has to be some kind of massive prank, or a bet, or a bizarre tontine of... ludicrous hateful statements, maybe? Anyway the latest flood of her verbal sewage suggests that…