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Sunday, September 19, 2021

WE'D STILL BE IN A CULTURE WAR IF COVID WERE TEN TIMES WORSE

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A few days ago, Chris Hayes tweeted this: I think I've come to believe that even if the Covid death toll was *ten times* what it curre...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

THE RIGHT DOESN'T HAVE POLICIES, BUT IT DOES HAVE A LOT OF CATCHPHRASES

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You probably know about this , which happened at a restaurant in my neighborhood that caters to a lot of tourists: A hostess at a well-known...
Friday, September 17, 2021

YOU CLAIM YOU'RE AGAINST INFECTION, YET NOW YOU SAY YOU SUPPORT TREATING INFECTION!

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Charles C.W. Cooke's National Review post "Ron DeSantis Was Right About Monoclonal-Antibody Therapy" is as bad as you'd i...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

PRO-CORPORATE DEMOCRATS WANT FELLOW DEMOCRATS TO LOSE

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Yesterday, a HuffPost story dispelled a myth about many of the corporatist Democrats who are blocking the Biden agenda: From prescription d...

THERE ISN'T MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLAMING VOTER FRAUD AND BLAMING PEOPLE WHO BLAME VOTER FRAUD

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I'll acknowledge that Republican critics of "voter fraud" trutherism are somewhat more reality-based than their Trumpian part...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

THAT'S NOT ENTERTAINMENT

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In a California recall post-mortem, Charlie Sykes quotes an Election Eve column by Clay Risen of The New York Times : The election ... rep...

FEDERALIST: IT CAN'T BE DEMOCRACY IF OUR SIDE LOSES

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California governor Gavin Newsom easily survived a recall effort yesterday, and The Federalist knows what that means: There is no democracy...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

YOU KNOW THAT ALL THE WINGNUTS IN AMERICA THINK THEIR WORST SUSPICIONS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED, RIGHT?

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I'm sure you think this was a perfectly reasonable judgment call: Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol , President Don...

LARRY ELDER WEBSITE: WE DON'T WANT TO SHOOT ANYONE IF WE DON'T LIKE THE RECALL RESULTS, BUT WE MIGHT HAVE TO

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Today is Election Day in California, and polls show that Governor Gavin Newsom is unlikely to be recalled. But the candidate who's expe...
Monday, September 13, 2021

REPUBLICANS DON'T BELIEVE CALIFORNIA IS REALLY A DEMOCRATIC STATE (AND WERE SKEPTICS EVEN BEFORE TRUMP)

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Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times notices that Republicans aren't even waiting for the votes to be counted (or even for all the vo...