Congressional ethics investigators could soon be silenced by Congress.

Hillary Clinton admitted to NY hospital with a blood clot.

 

another part of the diabolical benghazi coverup!

another part of the diabolical benghazi coverup!

 

yes, it does seem very suspicious. i'll check drudge and let you guys know what i find.

yes, it does seem very suspicious. i'll check drudge and let you guys know what i find.

 

11 years to the day after Vince Foster committed "suicide"

 

Obama never did like things that were too transparent.

that gif cracks me up

that gif cracks me up

i wanna know what the hell she THOUGHT was gonna happen... opening up the plastic wrap like that...

 

also i dream of booking a job like that some day. the pinnacle of every actor's career.

 

YES!

i wanna know what the hell she THOUGHT was gonna happen... opening up the plastic wrap like that...

 

also i dream of booking a job like that some day. the pinnacle of every actor's career.

 

I'm sure it's from some infomercial for a "better" product

How US Banks And Federal Law Enforcement Worked Together Bringing Down Occupy Wall Street

I'm not terribly convinced by her argument there

I'm not terribly convinced by her argument there

 

A bit of a stretch

good series of an interview with Tarrantino by Henry Gates Jr. about Django:

 

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...-django-trilogy

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...n-word?page=0,0

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...3-white-saviors

good series of an interview with Tarrantino by Henry Gates Jr. about Django:

 

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...-django-trilogy

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...n-word?page=0,0

http://www.theroot.com/views/tarantino-unc...3-white-saviors

Great read. Thanks for sharing.

I'll stick this one in here for now.

 

Thanks to the deal struck last night, the U.S. is now on pace for $348 billion or so in austerity measures at the federal level compared to last year alone. This is just over 2% of GDP...a larger than the 1.5% of GDP cuts that have sent the UK back into recession. That's assuming the Sequester cuts happen in some fashion of course, they're about 1/4 of that total.

the world is run by morons

 

Either way, Congress is beginning to trim the deficit. And, as JP Morgan’s Michael Feroli points out, these efforts are expected to shave at least 1 percent of U.S. economic growth in 2013.

Edited January 2, 201313 yr by StrangeSox

would you all rather have Same Sex Marriage passed or the proposed gun control legislation?

liberals' sophie's choice

 

probably SSM because we're currently in a straight-up violation of civil rights and I don't think a state-by-state solution to gun control legislation will be particularly helpful, especially given Chicago's bleed-over into a neighboring state.

liberals' sophie's choice

 

probably SSM because we're currently in a straight-up violation of civil rights and I don't think a state-by-state solution to gun control legislation will be particularly helpful, especially given Chicago's bleed-over into a neighboring state.

 

I agree. For the record, I don't believe this will be an either or, but if I was the republicans I would probably try to deliver SSM votes if gun restrictions delayed.

 

Ann Coulter thinks we should publish names and addresses of women who have had abortions

Awww

(Senator Chris Murphy, D-CT, and family)

I'm confused about what's happening with SSM Illinois. First edition had on the senator proposing it, saying they were not pushing it thru the lame duck anymore. Instead they are going to try and do it with the new congress. Does anyone know how good the odds are? 3 days ago it seemed like it was a sure thing.

Ann Coulter thinks we should publish names and addresses of women who have had abortions

That dude needs to get rid of his adam's apple.

The conservative movement is still an elaborate moneymaking venture

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. As Rick Perlstein explained in the Baffler, some of the largest conservative media organs are essentially massive email lists of suckers rented to snake oil salesmen. The con isn’t limited to a couple of newsletters and websites: The most prominent conservative organizations in the nation are primarily dedicated to separating conservatives from their money.

 

FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires. And what are people who donate to this grass-roots conservative organization funded mostly by a few very rich people getting for their hard-earned money? In addition to paying Dick Armey $400,000 a year for 20 years to stay away, FreedomWorks also apparently spent more than a million dollars paying Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to say nice things about FreedomWorks, in order to convince listeners to send FreedomWorks money that FreedomWorks would then give to Limbaugh and Beck. It’s a pretty simple con. Beck, meanwhile, also has a subscriber-based media operation, in which people pay his company money for access to programs where Beck expresses opinions that he was paid to hold. He also spent years telling everyone to buy gold from a company that pays him and defrauds consumers.