Stories to Watch: 5/24/12

A NYC public school will teach kids Arabic. It goes without saying that this is the worst thing ever!


Rightwing "historian" David Barton takes a break from getting history all fucked up, allowing him to get the present all fucked up.


The Democratic Governors Association moves another $1 million into the Wisconsin recall race.


Also in recall news: the John Doe investigation into the Walker administration has conservatives terrified.


The military-industrial complex's War on Journalism.


The rightwing blogosphere's Bullshit Freakout of the Day.


Hey, remember how Lehman Brothers melted down after a boneheaded gambling scheme sunk the US economy? Yeah, the SEC is totally cool with that.


Grover Norquist's idea of a walk-back could use a lot of work.


Confirmation of things you already know: it's going to be a close election, with Obama likely to win.


Finally, when fifteen minutes of fame results in fifteen minutes worth of money.

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Stories to Watch: 5/21/12

The Cory Booker non-story, explained concisely.


Limbaugh's ratings post-slut comment were not so hot.


State of Hawaii to Arizona's birther Secretary of State: We are so tired of this bullshit. The email exchange behind all of this is well worth your time.


Facebook's shares aren't doing so well.


The conservative media start a race war. Luckily, it exists only in their imaginations. Bonus fun: Ed Kilgore on how incoherent and insane the whole thing is.


Obama says he's not letting up on Romney's Bain past.


Paul Ryan's stopped trying to make any damned sense at all.


Me talk like conservatives now.


Are squirrels possessed by gay demons?


Just a reminder; rightwing "historian" David Barton sells the purest horseshit known to man.


Finally, if the current escalation in numbers is any indication, by the time November rolls around, Mittens will be claiming to have created about a trillion jobs -- give or take a billion.

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Stories to Watch: 6/11/11

As news that Republicans plan to run phony Democrats in recall primaries sinks in, Wisconsin Democrats realize that two can play that game.


Attacking beer in Wisconsin isn't going to help Republicans here any either.


John Stossel is having a hot, torrid love affair with the straw man argument.


That Washington Post poll that put Mittens ahead of Obama is beginning to seem like an outlier. Yet another poll is out showing that the President leads all Republicans and that Romney "performs the best of a poorly performing group, trailing Obama by six points, 39% to 45%."


A former top Gingrich aide confirms the obvious; that Newt's campaign is "essentially over." Cause of death: the impression among staffers that the whole thing was just a scheme to sell books and videos -- or, at least, that a fire sale on all things Newt was taking precedence over actual campaigning. "We didn't sign up to be hucksters for products for sale," ABC quotes one senior staffer as complaining in an email.


Finally, the next time you hear the words "David Barton" and "historian" in the same sentence, go ahead and laugh until you cry.

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