For some reason, a lot of Republican broads never learned much about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Is it because they’re too busy being taught to hate the Kennedys? Is it because no Freedom Bombs got dropped? Dana Perino was probably the best, having never even heard of such a thing, but Michele Bachmann takes the [...]
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UPDATED WITH CORRECTION BELOW: In today’s LA Times, David Eisenhower typed up a little something that shows pretty starkly that if one wants to maintain one’s grasp on reality over time, then marrying into the Nixon family might be a mistake. The piece (of what, I’ll let the reader decide), is a rather boring, phoned-in [...]
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The death of Senator Ted Kennedy marks the death of the last of four brothers who all died trying to save their country from wars waged on innocents by the always-imperial and conquering Right. The first, Joe, was fighting fascism in Europe when he was killed at age 29, John (temporarily) saved us from Richard [...]
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