BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

UPDATE: It looks like we will be able to recreate some of the missing data via Google cache. Our love/hate relationship with Google is currently pointing to love.
If things around here look a little shopworn, there’s a really shitty reason.
Due to a combination of my own ineptness and unclear instructions on database upgrading, we have [...]

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Like Alan Grayson, Anita Dunn was a “Huh? Who?” name to most liberals a few weeks ago. But like Congressman Grayson, she’ll be a star by noon.
That’s what happens when someone in the Democratic party finds the intestinal fortitude to tell the truth about the GOP and their fanboys.

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Here’s the Dishonor Roll of Democrats who betrayed the people:
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
Remember them when their Primary opponents need money.
(More info at  Huffpo)

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It surprises most city dwellers we know to learn how hard it is for us in farm country to buy good fresh produce locally.  That’s because this is corn and soybeans country and most folks don’t realize that 98% of the soybeans and 80% of the corn grown in the United States is the type [...]

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That’s the subject line in an email from David Axelrod.  “Something worth forwarding.”  Jesus!  Talk about a subject line guaranteed to see it’s deleted from many inboxes without reading because it looks like spam!
Axelrod is an alright sort.  It’s just that this White House, so beautifully eloquent in long form communications like speeches, really sucks [...]

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I’ve never been able to muster much good feeling for the slimy, hateful puppy-beating, possibly pedophilic reprobate, but if he’s going to encourage his addlepated followers not to vote for John McCain and, in fact, not to vote at all for either candidate for President in November, that’s a James Dobson that works for me.
Here [...]

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-perry18-2009may18,0,3281558.story

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Eugene Robinson Wins Pulitzer

Full list here

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Last night, the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill giving the OK to same sex marriage. Passed it by a healthy margin, too. 95-52. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The frustrating thing is that’s just a handful of votes short of what it would take to override the veto Republican Gov. [...]

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It was so easy!  Go along to get along, vote for capitulation and call it compromise.  Piece of cake!  In fact, all that work involved in giving a rat’s ass and fighting the good fight and protecting and defending the Constitution seems silly in retrospect.  Just show up, vote whatever’s easy and then forget about [...]

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Can this be true?  Are the Keystone Kops running the FBI???!!??
Having been vegan for many years and having attended quite a few of these things, let me tell you the conversation is about food, food, and food.  The most subversive thing I ever heard was the suggestion to try lentil soup made without garlic.  Heresy, [...]

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The mantra for business used to be “create a need and then fill it.” But if you can get customers to ante up for both the problem and the solution, oh baby!
Nestle – the company that’s turning your butt into the 51st state with products like Baby Ruth candy bars, Goobers, Gobstoppers, and Hot [...]

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If you’re wandering about DC this week, watch out for Very Serious People, dressed in government drag, walking into traffic while all their attention is fixed on a scrap of paper.
These are Republicans who ride the tiger of the Religious Wrong Right and who are studying the 10 Commandments, skeered silly they’ll fall into the [...]

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George Bush didn’t know anything about the slaughter of innocent civilians, including small children, at Haditha until months later when a reporter from Time asked him about it.
It’s hard to be surprised at this claim. The man has made a career of being out of the loop when anything potentially embarrassing was going on.
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My God! Have you had enough?
Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them “execution-style,” in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials close to the investigation said Friday.The pictures are [...]

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