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When Did Republicans Become So Mean?

February 1, 2012
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CNN And Southern Republican Leadership Conference Host GOP Presidential Debate

Today it was announced that the charity Susan G. Komen for a Cure would no longer fund a program with Planned Parenthood that provided free breast screenings that has probably saved thousands of women’s lives. Why? Because Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress thanks to anti-choice Republican Cliff Sterns. How can you put...

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Another Garfunkel and Oates Moment, Save the Rich with Weird Al (Video)

January 17, 2012
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Two of my most favorite women. Occupy Wall Street rocks and so do Garfunkel and Oates.

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Santorum Doesn’t Want to Make Life Better for Blacks

January 3, 2012
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Santorum

Ex Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and presidential candidate wants to reform welfare on the backs of black people. He said the following in Iowa. “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money.” “I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn their money and...

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Is Ron Paul a Liar?

December 22, 2011
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Ron Paul

I previously wrote about Ron Paul’s racist comments here. Here are some of them. If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.” – Ron Paul, 1992 “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely...

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Of Course it’s Class Warfare Republicans

December 16, 2011
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Foodline

Republicans hate it when someone says the words class warfare. This from the most vacant Republican lawmaker I’ve seen in years, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. “Class warfare … may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics,” … “If you tax something more, you get less of it,” Ryan said. “If...

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Bernie Sanders Calls Out the Supreme Court

December 11, 2011
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Bernie Sanders

I may be a couple of days late on this story, but I believe it is vitally important. Democratic Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called out the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s about time someone did. This is a court controlled by conservative members who have no problem cavorting with rich people and corporations who...

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Where are the Serious GOP Candidates Part 3, 4, or 5

December 9, 2011
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Newt

I have posted previously about the lack of serious GOP presidential candidates and quite frankly I’ve grown tired of it. I would normally point you to my previous posts on the subject, but it just seems pointless. That’s the reason behind the title of the post. Where are the serious GOP candidates for president,...

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Why Don’t Republicans Want to Protect Consumers

December 8, 2011
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The Consumer Financial Protection Agency was created in 2008 after the economic meltdown caused by greedy wall street insiders. It prohibits complex disclosure forms, simplifies credit cards, oversees payday loans, gift cards, overdraft agreements and other products. Simply, it protects consumers. That’s why it’s called the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But Republicans don’t like...

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What is Wrong with Rick Perry

December 7, 2011
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Rick Perry

Perry attacks Obama on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and Christmas. His comments are ludicrous and reflect more on the fact that he is behind in the polls rather than Obama’s policy. Here’s what Perry said. “I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian,” the Texas governor says. “But you don’t need to be...

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Donald Trump is a Jerk

December 7, 2011
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The Jerk

Donald Trump is a jerk and like most jerks he doesn’t realize it. What makes him believe he has any qualifications to moderate a presidential debate. He is a failed businessman, a failed husband, and a failed presidential candidate. Donald Trump is not a person, he is a brand. A brand that appears to...

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The Madrigal Maniac

A Central Ohio Social Worker striving to bring justice to the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio through respectful conversation.

RSS The Columbus Dispatch

  • Police investigate death on the Hilltop
    Police haven’t determined what caused the death of a man who was found by a woman in her Hilltop home this morning, but the investigation will continue. Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, a Columbus police homicide detective, said the man was staying temporarily at the woman’s home at 69 S. Ogden Ave., but she didn’t know him very well. She called police at about 10:30 […]
  • Sheriff's office searches for suspects in Marysville abduction, rape
    The Union County sheriff’s office is searching for two suspects after a woman said she was abducted and sexually assaulted following a fake traffic stop. […]
  • Komen’s reversal on Planned Parenthood irks some
    When the leaders of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced yesterday that they were reversing their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, some donors who had been angry said all was forgiven. […]
  • Into the crossfire
    Laura Robinson said she no longer will jaywalk across Morse Road. The North Side resident watched a man die Thursday night after he darted across the busy roadway near Kingshill Drive and was struck by three vehicles. […]
  • Police ID pedestrian hit, killed Thursday on North Side
    Police this morning identified a man who was struck and killed Thursday while crossing a busy road on the North Side. Rene Antonio Deras, 44, of El Salvador, was crossing Morse Road near the intersection of Kingshill Drive at about 10:30 p.m. when witnesses said he was hit by at least two vehicles, one of which fled the scene. […]

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