The Great Debate: This weekend’s debate between Prez candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at Orange County’s Saddleback Church has been making the news—mostly because by all accounts, McCain kicked Obama’s ass. Of course, McCain, even as a “fake” Republican, had the advantage in a debate where the setting is a church, which tends to [...]
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The first image above is a button that was on sale at the Texas GOP Convention. According to Politico’s Ben Smith: “The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.”
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Later, as the officer put on the plastic-flexi cuffs, I shouted, “What are you doing? This [...]
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