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Co-author of the first political biography of Michele Bachmann: Michele Bachmann's America
Diaries published: 814 (2089 days since last diary on Tue Mar 20, 2018 at 02:18 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 5779 (2089 days since last comment on Tue Mar 20, 2018 at 02:18 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Minnesota press spinning for Bachmann, 352 comments, 627 recommends
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Last year we were discussing the book “Hillbilly Elegy,” by J.D. Vance. The book is a kind of indictment of the culture he grew up with in white Appalachia. I doubt that the book was intended as a “fair-minded, balanced” view of these Americans. Vance...
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10 comments on Tue Mar 20, 2018 at 02:18 PM PDT with 15 Recommends |
Amazing, but true. It’s murder and violence, but at Fox they truly believe that ‘spin conquers all.'
Here is the link that inspired the strip:
www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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1 comments on Sat Aug 19, 2017 at 10:42 AM PDT with 2 Recommends |
I mean: come on, he’s *still* puffing Putin as this 'great guy.’ And he starts doing it *again*, right after kneeling down before Congress to sign a sanctions bill he says he’s *against.* And with the FBI and the US intel agencies and the press and a...
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8 comments on Fri Aug 11, 2017 at 10:57 AM PDT with 8 Recommends |
Ya see? Ya see? They all said I was crazy back at the maximum security relaxation farm. But who’s the crazy one NOW—eh?
Here’s the story I pulled that first panel “news quote” from. The quote PROVING my theory, is down at the bottom, in the...
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1 comments on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 05:20 PM PDT with 7 Recommends |
They never caught on; and the pinheads will never catch on no matter how many times it’s explained to them: federal deficit spending to create jobs and prosperity in their districts…
...is that “government redistribution of wealth,” “a liberal ‘big...
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2 comments on Sun May 28, 2017 at 10:52 AM PDT with 16 Recommends |
Yep, that’s how you obstruct justice.
A public official, impeding an ongoing investigation of his office...offering up statements that indicate a "corrupt” intention…
...plus the “action” in furtherance of the criminal intention (as reflected in...
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4 comments on Mon May 22, 2017 at 07:37 PM PDT with 9 Recommends |
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