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Beck Screws Up Voter Intimidation History

7:55 pm EST July 6th, 2010 | Conservative | 57 Comments

Shocker. ICYMI: Facts ruin Glenn Beck’s voter intimidation comparisons

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GOP vs. Thurgood Marshall

4:49 pm EST June 28th, 2010 | Republicans, Supreme Court | 44 Comments

Keep it up guys. Because the minority vote isn’t 100% Democratic, you seem to be doing your part to get it there.

Looks like Senate Judiciary Republicans have at least one unified talking point today: Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to ever serve on the Supreme Court, was an ‘activist judge.’ As Elena Kagan kept on her listening face, multiple senators slammed both Marshall’s judicial philosophy and her service as his clerk in the late 1980s.

Ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) criticized Kagan for having ‘associated herself with well-known activist judges who have used their power to redefine the meaning of our constitution and have the result of advancing that judge’s preferred social policies,’ citing Marshall as his son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., sat in the audience of the Judiciary Committee hearings.

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Historical Facts Under Assault From The Right

8:18 pm EST April 3rd, 2010 | Conservative | 63 Comments

Jesus On A Dinosaur

I don’t want to live in a world where 1+1 = 3 so as not to be liberally biased.

In articles and speeches, on radio and TV, conservatives are working to redefine major turning points and influential figures in American history, often to slam liberals, promote Republicans and reinforce their positions in today’s politics.

The Jamestown settlers? Socialists. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton? Ill-informed professors made up all that bunk about him advocating a strong central government.

Theodore Roosevelt? Another socialist. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Not only did he not end the Great Depression, he also created it.

Joe McCarthy? Liberals lied about him. He was a hero.

Some conservatives say it’s a long-overdue swing of the pendulum after years of liberal efforts to define history on their terms in classrooms and in popular culture.

‘We are adding balance,’ Texas school board member Don McLeroy said. ‘History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.’

As Bob notes, this is something we have to do everything within our power to stop. Every day I have seen Glenn Beck create made-up history, and then I see people on the right regurgitate the nonsense as if it were reality.

Liberals need to do what we always do: Arm ourselves with the facts.

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George Washington Vs. A Bengal Tiger On A Sinking Boat. During A Hurricane.

1:06 am EST March 14th, 2010 | Humor | 13 Comments

For a first president, this sets the bar ridiculously high. (via)

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A Machiavellian Blog

3:24 pm EST February 26th, 2010 | Comic Books | 3 Comments

This is cool. Don MacDonald is doing a graphic novel on the life of Machiavelli and is posting it online. I just recently bought the Prince to read for the first time. You know, so I can learn how to control the universe and stuff.

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20th Anniversary Of Nelson Mandela Release

2:23 am EST February 11th, 2010 | News | 6 Comments

Man, it feels like this was just yesterday. I remember my mom waking me up to make sure I watched it live. It feels strange to think that I once lived in a world where apartheid was real and Mandela was behind bars.

Celebrations are to be held to mark 20 years since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, a key step towards ending apartheid in South Africa.
In Cape Town his former wife Winnie will lead a march from the prison where he spent the final months of his 27-year imprisonment.

When I was in London in January, I got this picture of Mr. Mandela’s statue in Parliament Square:

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Glenn Beck Needs A History Lesson

11:52 am EST February 4th, 2010 | News | 19 Comments

That won’t really help, because the man is stupid on purpose. But he tries to say here that Nazis got their propaganda techniques from progressives. This is part of his long (not working) campaign to get “progressive” to have the same negative connotation often associated with liberal. That aside, it was the conservative right in America who defended Nazism. Figures like Father Coughlin and the American First types were the most vehemently opposed to American involvement and those groups on the right also involved themselves in anti-semetism. These groups kept on at their aid and comfort for Nazi Germany up until the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Then two liberal, progressive Presidents led the country to victory in its most important war ever.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

7:30 am EST January 18th, 2010 | News | 23 Comments

The greatest American to have ever lived.

If Dr. King had lived he would be 81 today, which is younger than my three living grandparents. Amazing.

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KGB Destroyed Hitler’s Remains

3:06 am EST December 11th, 2009 | News | 4 Comments

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The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency’s chief, a top Russian security official said this week.

The head archivist of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) — the successor to the former Soviet Union’s KGB — confirmed for the first time the chain of events that led to the disposal of Hitler’s body, and who ordered the operation, in an exclusive interview with Russia’s Interfax news agency.

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Babies With Nazi Fathers

11:25 am EST December 10th, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

These guys wish that their dads were just your standard issue dorky dad instead of part of evil incarnate.

Historians estimate that more than 800,000 children were born to German soldiers enforcing the four-year Nazi occupation of Europe, about 200,000 in France alone. Like Delorme, most were raised behind a veil of secrecy and shame, derided in school and unable to understand what they had done wrong. Many of their mothers had been shaved bald and paraded naked through the streets after the Germans retreated. Others, like Delorme’s, were jailed as traitors.

More than six decades later, with the children in their 60s, the beginning of a change is in the air. Some of Europe’s war babies have begun to talk among themselves, lamenting the shame they were made to feel. A growing number have decided to seek out their German families and fathers.

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