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By Pepper of the Daily Pepper This morning, the Fox News panel, aka the ‘Washington Week’ rejects, is blaming the press for turning Cheney’s Shotgun Love Tap into news. According to them, if there’s a body in the library, and Colonel Mustard is holding the revolver, it doesn’t count unless the press corps was there […]

By Lance Mannion. The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen has advised high school students everywhere that algebra is a waste of their time. You’re never going to have to solve an algebra problem again in your life, he says, unless of course you do something foolish with yourself and become a scientist or a mathematician or […]

posted by Shakes Thanks for getting us going with all your televangelizing and shit, dude, but now your headline-grabbing batshit insanity is making us all look bad, so shove off, will ya? Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson’s habit of shooting from the hip on his daily […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math If there was ever a “gentleman’s aggrement” that the two parties not start a paperwork war over ticky-tack filing requirements, it’s now offically no longer operative.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf You see these stories about Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer calling up donors and telling them not to give money to Paul Hackett. I can understand Hackett supporters being upset, insofar as they think that Schumer and Reid made the wrong decision in backing Brown instead of Hackett. But there’s […]

Here’s a twist — a Chinese technology company sueing a U.S. competitor for stealing their flash drive technology. This is what it’s going to take for the Chinese to start getting tough on instituting intellectual property laws — when their R&D department gets sophisticated enough to requrie their protection. — Battlepanda

By Pepper of the Daily PepperDonald Rumsfeld has discovered the modern era, and, like any Internet evangelist, he is spreading the gospel of how the USA must get hip to “the Internets” to keep up with terrorist organizations. He said in a speech that “For the most part, the U.S. government still functions as a […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf This list of Duke Cunningham’s offenses (and it’s far from complete) just boggles my mind. It appears that Duke kept on seeing things he wanted, and asking defense contractor buddies to buy them for him. A Chevy Suburban. A used Rolls-Royce. A boat. And then there’s the scheme to have […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Looks like scientists at NIH are making progress on a vaccine for Ebola! I’m hoping that the scientists don’t get laid off due to budget cuts, like those government scientists working on renewable energy who lost their jobs right after Bush talked about weaning us off our addiction to oil. […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Lindsay Beyerstein has explained why she likes Russ Feingold for 2008. Two of the major reasons she’s put forward are his support for civil liberties and his liberal views on social issues. As one of the foremost Edwards supporters in the blogosphere, it falls to me to respond by describing […]