“The ex-wife of the man suspected of murdering three Muslim students Tuesday near the University of North Carolina described him as a person with “no compassion” who was obsessed with a movie about a shooting rampage.” Read more.
You gotta watch this homemade video of the effect gay marriage is NOT having in Alabama: “It looks like we’re pretty safe here in Blount County, and we’re not going to be subjected to any kind of plagues of homosexuals falling from the sky.”
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After General Eric Shinseki stepped down as VA Secretary, President Obama nominated former Proctor and Gamble CEO Bob McDonald to replace him and turn things around at the VA. McDonald is a Republican. And from the looks of things he doesn’t really care who does or does not like him in Washington.
Bibi: If you have a problem with our POTUS’s foreign policy meet me at AIPAC but not on the House floor. pic.twitter.com/HN7eLaIbg1
— Charles Rangel (@cbrangel) February 11, 2015
In surprising move, GOP Senator breaks with caucus, says they should do their job and fund the DHS – give up Ted Cruz inspired immigration doofus crusade.
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We know about the old distinction between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor. Now for some rightwing keyboards warriors we appear to see a comparable difference between hostages, captured soldiers and so forth. When they die or are in held for ransom we honor and hold out hope for them. Except if they’re a little Islamy or had bad politics or actually did some things that were wrong (thinking about Bowe Bergdahl in latter case), then all bets are off. So now you have anti-Islam hardliners trashing the latest ISIS victim as a “Jew-Hating, Anti-Israel Bitch.” The death of these hostages is tragic, except if they didn’t have the right politics.
It’s getting more than a little tiring seeing right-wing foxbots increasingly using “Jews” as a kind of bizarre team mascot or rhetorical piñata in their petty partisan antics. For Republicans, we really should rename the Redskins The Washington Jews. What would we Jews do without goyisha outrage hounds like Dana Perino protecting us from well, ourselves?