The GOP Marches to the Right End of the Flat Earth

The GOP Marches to the Right End of the Flat Earth

Posted: 13 Oct 2015 05:07 AM PDT

By Daniel Donner / Daily Kos 

As we watch House Republicans descend into epic disorder, let us contemplate once more how we arrived at this congressional apocalypse: Republicans have run so far away from the middle of the political spectrum that a significant nihilist minority of the party now regards any compromise with Democrats as tantamount to treason.   [Read more...]

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Debate #1 for Democratic Presidential Candidates: Please Be Boring Posted: 13 Oct 2015 09:53 AM PDT By Doug Porter Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.  I’m supposed to breathlessly predict something sensational will happen in tonight’s Democratic Debate. Maybe Bernie Sanders will rip off his mask, revealing that he’s actually Karl Marx reincarnated. Maybe Hillary Clinton will let it slip that her private email account was all about keeping her orders from the Illuminati hidden. I, for one, hope none of that happens. The best possible contrast with the Republicans would be for an actual discussion of actual programs based on this crazy little thing called reality. I think a successful debate tonight will be, as The Donald has already warned us, boring. Instead of hearing about Mexican rapists, maybe we can hear point and counterpoint on how much (not if) the minimum wage should be increased. Or something about how NOT bombing brown people somewhere might be a good idea.   [Read more...] Students Protest Gun Violence with Giant Dildos Posted: 13 Oct 2015 05:09 AM PDT By Sola Agustsson /Alternet Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently passed the “campus carry” law, which will allow gun license owners to carry concealed firearms throughout public university campuses. The law will go into effect starting August 2016, and many believe it will make universities less safe. Students at the University of Texas at Austin are protesting this law in a peaceful yet subversive way- by openly carrying sex toys to class. "You're carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I'm carrying a HUGE DILDO. Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.   [Read more...] “Express Yourself” Posted: 13 Oct 2015 05:08 AM PDT Acknowledging the Playwright Project's "Deborah Salzer Excellence in Arts Education Award" By Ernie McCray Being recognized for any contribution I've made to the arts is like being recognized for breathing a breath, like being identified for being myself - as I was raised by a mother and a grandfather and a great-aunt and cousins and a church and more than a handful of neighbors and a teacher or two at a segregated school to, in the spirit of the Golden Rule: Express myself.   [Read more...] The GOP Marches to the Right End of the Flat Earth Posted: 13 Oct 2015 05:07 AM PDT By Daniel Donner / Daily Kos As we watch House Republicans descend into epic disorder, let us contemplate once more how we arrived at this congressional apocalypse: Republicans have run so far away from the middle of the political spectrum that a significant nihilist minority of the party now regards any compromise with Democrats as tantamount to treason.   [Read more...]

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