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Per request an open thread to discuss the GOP Tea Party Debate. I'll be in and out more than usual because to be honest I'd rather watch dumb jocks than dumb pols. Bito's Much more thorough update.     The debate tonight will be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65xilSDyso&feature=related Did everybody hear that? Did you? Did you listen to every word? Do you know what it was? It was a good, old-fashioned labor leader exhorting a gaggle of workers gathered to celebrate the one day our country sets aside...

The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed.

We'll be live blogging on this thread during the debate, hope you'll join us. In the mean time, please feel free to post comments about the GOP primary and any of the cast from this hit reality show, "Election - Arkham Asylum Edition".

"God, Guns, and Greed" shows the passion and commitment Dominionists have to taking overAmerica– and the world.

How does a lib engage with a RWer in a way that doesn't convey acrimony while still standing strong?

There can be no question about the historic importance of 9/11 and how it changed the course of America. There's an enormous amount to be learned and remembered but there can be a thin line between exploring those events and exploiting the horror of that day just for ratings or other less than altruistic agendas.

At the recommendation of a fellow Southerner, I'm currently reading a book I should have read long ago - Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic. It's one of the most honest representations of the Southern psyche I've yet to read, without...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbV7mURP0I I know all there are scores of too-cool-for-school kids who hang out on Bill Maher's Facebook page and stoke this little man's enormously fragile ego. Bill's always been a big fan of Ron Paul's, although he's not too keen on...

Ron Paul isn't just a fanatic Ayn Rand devotee like the son he claims he didn't name after her... in fact, that is the least of his shortcomings.