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The Minx’s Ambivalent Mexican Vacation
I took this rather revealing photo of myself during my vacation just for you…..
Have you ever been forced to sit and go through someone’s dumbass vacation photographs and listen to all their boring stories about snorkeling trips with lobster lunches, visits to archeaological sites where the histories of an ancient people have been discovered, or [...]
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Wanna Watch Something Scary?
Frontline is broadcasting The Dark Side, a piece on Cheney’s campaign to take out Tenet and control the CIA:
After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet’s CIA [...]
TASC Petition Typo Could Mean More Spending
Ironic to say the least…..the TASC petition (Tax and Spending Control for Nevada) being circulated for signatures differs from the one submitted to the Secretary of State. According to Anjeanette Damon:
The problem is with the date on which the spending cap would be based. The official version says the state would calculate the cap [...]
The DotNets Are More Liberal Than Previous Generations
You know how people are always talking about the pendulum swinging back after extreme periods in history? Well, The Pew Research Center has a new report out that finds that people born after 1976 are more liberal than either Generation X or Y:
In partisan terms, there is dramatic evidence for a generational divide. Young [...]
Moderate AND Conservative GOPers Grow Restless
Another report from the Pew Research Center on just how badly things are going for Bush:
As public approval of George W. Bush languishes at all-time low levels, supporters of the president are increasingly hard to find. In the months following his re-election, roughly half of the country rated Bush’s job performance favorably. Today only a [...]
Cabela’s Tax Coup and Conservation Mountain
I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who doesn’t get the whole Cabela’s thing. Its not a shopping experience I even come close to understanding. In fact, the whole idea of having a “shopping experience” sounds awful to me unless shopping experience means I’m in and out in ten minutes. A [...]
The Class Politics of Immigration
Here is an excerpt from Tom Englehardt’s interview with Barbara Ehrenreich on the class politics of the immigration debate I found very interesting:
My son went to a Minutemen gathering in the southwest and the fascinating thing was that a lot of the leaders talked a very big anti-corporate line: The corporations are crushing us, we’re [...]
Here’s A Big Wet Welcome To Monday Morning Politicking
Reno and Its Discontents is happy to announce a development of such blogalicious goodness, it almost leaves us speechless. Almost.
In a strange and fortuitous twist of fate, Discontents and Monday Morning Politicking have negotiated a merger of sorts that we believe will benefit all parties involved–especially our readers. From now on, Discontents [...]
Reid’s A More Polarizing Figure Inside Nevada
In the Washington Post’s politics blog, The Fix, Chris Cillizza discusses the effect Reid’s senate leadership position has had on his popularity at home and the news is neither good nor a surprise. He compares the results from the recent RGJ poll with poll results from 2003.
In the recent RGJ’s Research 2000 poll, 48% [...]
Nevada GOP Trying to Lose Elections
Um, I did a litte re-write of this LVRJ story originally found at the Beacon’s place:
Some key Republicans embraced the Republican Party’s new platform plank passed over the weekend that would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
Legal scholars called the proposal unconstitutional, and Hispanic advocates termed it a violation [...]
Snatch Me A Polygamist
The Scandalmonger, who runs Vote Gibbons Out, is model of persistence, dedication, and wit–always holding the feet of Jim Gibbons to the fire where they belong. But tonight, I zeroed in on the Patrick Leahy/Orrin Snatch, uh, I mean Hatch squabble over polygamists Scandalmonger mentioned, because its always fun to watch Hatch walk the [...]
Bush Don’t Believe In No High Flalutin’ Edumacation
Thanks for depressing me deeply Desert Beaconess. Read her excellent and exhaustive post on the Bush adminstration’s woeful record on higher education. Add to all of that Secretary Spelling’s (of No Child Left Behind fame) not so secret assault on higher ed in her Commission on the Future of Higher Education (Is it [...]
Is Making English The National Language Racist?
The RGJ’s latest poll asks the following question: “The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to make English the national language, Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said: “I really believe this amendment is racist. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish.” Do you agree with Reid?”
My poll question would be “What [...]
This Is London Calling You A Terrorist
Antonino D’Ambrosio has a great piece on the web about the recent arrest of a Harraj Mann, a mobile phone salesman of Indian descent, as a terrorist suspect for singing along to The Clash’s legendary song “
