"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."Benjamin Disraeli
This is important to me.
The governor of California talks about taxes, Mother Teresa and being back in charge
President Obama is cutting his Christmas holiday short, returning to Washington for a last attempt at avoiding the fiscal cliff. But he’s running headlong into the Republican strategy of fanaticism.
It’s a long-established principle of game theory (see Thomas Schelling’s classic 1956 essay…
Remarkably, John Boehner couldn’t get enough House Republicans to vote in favor of his proposal to keep the Bush tax cuts in place on the first million dollars of everyone’s income and apply the old Clinton rates only to dollars over and above a million.
What? Even Grover Norquist blessed…
A Timeline Of Mass Shootings In The US Since Columbine
(Above: Two teachers and two police officers — or what right-wingers call “union thugs” — escort children to Newtown’s volunteer firehouse, not knowing if they or the children will be shot to death in the process.)
“Why aren’t you being nice to me?” said gun owners. “Because your stupid toys just killed 26 people,” said everyone decent.
ZOMG this photo.
Oh, also, some pretty good news for progressives.
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“And if I have to listen to one more grey-faced man with a $2 haircut explain to me what rape is, I’m going to lose my mind.” — Tina Fey speaking at the Center for Reproductive Rights Inaugural Gala.
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