Posted 8:41 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Timothy Egan, "The War Hero and the Chicken Hawk"

Posted 1:30 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Greg Palast and Brad Friedman on the vote purge:

Posted 8:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

Butcher/Plutocrat Don Blankenship Indicted!!
The coal baron and former Massey Energy CEO was indicted for crimes related to 2010 disaster at the Upper Big Branch mine in which 29 miners died.  Let's celebrate!

Posted 8:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

Greg Palast is at it again. He uncovered a massive attempt to purge million of voters.

Posted 6:21 AM by Scoobie Davis

It's Been So Long Since I've Posted
I did an Amazon review of Pat Buchanan's new book The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority. It's being slammed by the right-wing reviewers. If you want, you can balance the feedback. Read the review here.

Posted 6:48 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Amanda Marcotte on the right's Cliven Bundy Syndrome:

The only reason right-wing media is giving sympathetic coverage to Bundy is that he’s identifiable as a conservative and therefore his desire to make money off the backs of taxpayers without paying his fair share gets sympathetic treatment. But if he was black or female and got away with even a dollar more food stamps than he was owed, he would be treated like public enemy No. 1 by Fox News. Being able to shrug off laws you don’t like is a privilege reserved for the few in the world of conservative media.

Posted 9:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Digby on Dick Morris.

Posted 6:27 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Michael Tomasky on Jim DeMint

Posted 6:05 AM by Scoobie Davis

Happy 90th Birthday, Jack Chick
The Chickster turns 90 on April 13

Posted 6:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Digby on weed and states' rights hypocrisy in the right.

Posted 8:25 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Bill Maher on Wal-mart

Posted 12:20 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Nate Silver's 538 site is back and it looks great.

Posted 11:22 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Robert Boston on the religious right's persecution complex:

Why, then, is there so much complaining from the religious right? (And it does come primarily from religious conservatives. Mainline and moderate clergy tend to understand their position of privilege and appreciate it.) Why do we hear so many cries about persecution?

Primarily we hear this because, despite their cushy position in society, religious groups do not get everything they want. In the case of ultraconservative religious groups, some of what they want is unrealistic or would require a complete reordering of society and perhaps a different constitution. In other words, our nation is not the theocracy that many in the religious right would prefer. When they attempt to make our society more theocratic, plenty of Americans resist. Our refusal to roll over and submit to them is, to their mind, a form of persecution.

Posted 7:54 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Edwin Lyngar, "Fox News tried to tear my family apart: How they failed to incite my father"

Posted 7:06 PM by Scoobie Davis

Woo Hoo! Slate.com mentions me!!!!
L.V. Anderson mentions me in her article on Oscars security:

But so far, Oscars crashers have tended to be people like [gatecrasher Scott] Weiss, whose devious aim was to take pictures with a bunch of celebrities, and people eager for their 15 minutes of fame, like the 1963 crasher Stan Berman, the man who dubbed himself “Surfer Dude” in 2002 [note: she's referring to me], and the 1997 crasher who went on to write a book called How I Went to the Oscars Without a Ticket.

Posted 10:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
The Daily Show takes on Fox Business News' Andrew Napolitiano

Posted 7:32 AM by Scoobie Davis

Gabriel Sherman's Book on Roger Ailes is Shocking
I finally had the opportunity to check out Gabriel Sherman's book The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country.  I wrote a review on Amazon.com and you can read it here.   If you like it, you can give the review a thumbs up.  I elaborated on some of Sherman's themes.  Sherman mentioned Fox News operative Bill Sammon's memos used against Obama. I gave some background on Sammon, mentioning some of his previous ratfucking and cited my article in American Politics Journal on Sammon.

Posted 6:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
I have crashed some great parties, but the get-together that Kevin Roose crashed was priceless.

Posted 6:42 AM by Scoobie Davis

Reince Priebus didn't deserve an apology from MSNBC chief Phil Griffin
Griffin profusely apologized for the staffer who tweeted that American conservatives "hate" interracial relationships. The right's record on race is horrendous.  Just a couple examples: 1) The right's patron saint, Ronald Reagan, was a virulent race-baiter with a horrible record on race.  Haley Barbour, who was recently the head of the RNC,  recently praised the White Citizens' Council.

Posted 8:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Koch Brothers Don't Want You to Watch This
Therefore, you should watch it:

Posted 2:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

Priceless!!!!!!
 John P. Walters, is a hardass drug warrior who once co-authored (with William Bennett) an article in the Weekly Standard, that--against all evidence--claimed that marijuana had no medical uses.  When I just googled "John P. Walters,"  the following image appeared on the sidebar of the search results page:

Posted 5:31 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Frank Rich on Fox News

Posted 12:56 PM by Scoobie Davis

Question of the Day: Who is Peter Boyer?
Media Matters for America has the answer and it's not pretty.

Posted 11:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Pic of the Day
From DU:

Posted 11:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on Amway Blog About the DeVos Family's Attempt to Destroy Labor
Click here

Posted 2:28 PM by Scoobie Davis

Matthew Continetti Kisses the Koch Brothers' Asses (again)

Today on National Review Online Continetti once again treats anyone who is the least bit concerned about the massive amount of money that the Koch Brothers have contributed to reactionary causes as paranoid.   He did the same thing in The Weekly Standard in 2011.  Lee Fang of Think Progress  addressed Continetti's conflict of interest.

Posted 12:50 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Anti-Amway Blog
Click here

Posted 12:49 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry on Robert Gates' double-cross.
Les Zazous

Posted 10:01 AM by Scoobie Davis

Answering Molly Ball
In her must-read Atlantic Monthly article, "The Agony of Frank Luntz," writer Molly Ball asks, "What does it mean when America's top political wordsmith loses faith in our ability to be persuaded? "  The answer:  It means Americans are a lot better off.

Posted 9:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Matt Taibbi on David Brooks, marijuana, and class privilege.

Also, Belated Happy New Year!