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Alex Seitz-Wald on debunking George W. Bush's cronies' attempts at historical revisionism.

Posted 11:40 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Kelsey Cook's hilarious response to Rebecca Martinson:  

Posted 11:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Gary May on how ALEC and the right use voter fraud as a pretext to attack voting rights.  In the comments section is an insightful post by "Captain America":

This is hardly breaking news. It was manifest a decade ago. In fact, just about every "problem" that demands a right-wing "solution" is manufactured, either out of whole cloth or as a result of previous "solutions":
- Creating budget shortfalls to justify government cutbacks.
- Manufacturing terrorist sting operations to justify the GWOT and constitutional eviscerations.
- Underfunding schools to create bad outcomes, which are used to justify privatization and union bashing.
- Deregulating banks so they can create a bubble and extract the wealth before it pops -- and then bail them out and prosecute their critics.
- Imposing upon foreign nations debt burdens so great that government assets must be sold off to private-sector U.S. campaign donors in a fire sale.
- Taking advantage of the need for immigration reform and piggybacking more HB1 visas on the legislation, even though there are available U.S. workers.
- "War on Christmas," which requires affirmative pro-Christian statements by local governments.
Every crisis is an opportunity, even if you have to create the crisis.

Posted 12:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Lee Fang on the real Watergate

Posted 8:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Dr. Benjamin Carson:

Last week, Carson came under attack for comparing advocates of same-sex marriage with advocates of bestiality and the North American Man/Boy Love Association. He then cast himself as a victim of political correctness, besieged by white liberals — “the most racist people there are” — who could not countenance his heterodoxy and wanted to keep him on the “plantation.”

The plantation metaphor refers to a popular theory on the right. It holds that the 95 percent of African-Americans who voted for a Democratic president are not normal Americans voting their beliefs, but slaves. A corollary to the plantation theory is the legend of the Conservative Black Hope, a lonesome outsider, willing to stare down the party of Obamacare and stand up for the party of voter ID. Does it matter that this abolitionist truth-teller serves at the leisure of an audience that is overwhelmingly white? Not really. Blacks are brainwashed slaves; you can’t expect them to know what’s in their interest.