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More lies and misleading rhetoric

Elena Kagan doesn’t “want to outlaw pornography” and Obama isn’t preventing BP from cleaning up the Gulf Okay, today there are several lies that should be addressed. The latest ones involve SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan, whose confirmation hearings just began (and USA Today predicts they’ll be loathsome, and just the sort of “vapid and hollow [...] [...]

It’s not the government’s fault

BP, not the US government, continues to dump oil all over the Gulf of Mexico A political adversary recently accused me of “blindly supporting anything that Obama does,” said that “you obviously hate capitalism, and you believe that government intervention is the best solution to every problem.” It’s pretty obvious, and I’ve written consistently [...] [...]

Ignorance breeds misinformation

Another example of gross misrepresentation and distortion A huge banner headline on this morning’s Drudge Report screams “Obama says: ‘It’s Like 9/11′” and links to an article in The Daily Mail which quotes the President as saying that while it was “cruel” to compare the BP disaster with Hurricane Katrina, it did indeed have echoes [...] [...]

BP Bailout?

Today’s episode of ridiculous, obvious GOP hypocrisy involves Republican efforts to stick American taxpayers with the financial burden of this Gulf oil spill cleanup and not BP. A bailout, then? I thought bailouts were BAD? I guess they are only good when it looks as if the public is going to balk. [...]

Observations about ‘birthers,’ BP and primaries…

Rather than just one, in-depth post today, let’s have three different shorter ones: [...]