Take Iran, for example. To listen to the warmongers, you’d think we’re days away from hearing air raid signals over Washington and Tel Aviv. But the truth is that, even if Iran has decided to pursue a nuclear weapons program – something which has yet to be determined, and which the intelligence community officially regards as aspirational – they would need up to six years to create but one nuclear device.

Today’s April 15, and there’s a lot of Teabaggings scheduled. So the Anchor Baby wants her fellow Teabaggers to be on the lookout for “infiltrators,” and helpfully offers several sure-fire ways to spot ‘em.

After the fall of Bush II, Fox News and the GOP realized they had a branding problem. The right wing infrastructure was mobilized, and money began flowing into organizations like David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, the Coors’ Independence Institute, Freedomworks and other outfits who had astroturfed the Drill, Drill Drill campaign. I wrote a tea party timeline last year, but by the time Rick Santelli had his moment of outrage on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade “suggesting” that everyone get together and have a “Chicago Tea Party,” things were already well underway.

Rep. George Miller released the list of the 48 most dangerous mines in America. These are the mines that have the most outstanding health and safety contested by the mine owners.

We reassembled the data released by Miller’s committee into easy, sortable tables.

Three faces of Pride will ride as Grand Marshals in this year’s New York City Pride March, June 27–Judy Shepard, Lt. Dan Choi, and Constance McMillen.

Jerry Brown put it best yesterday – “Meg Whitman isn’t just happy buying commercial breaks, now she’s trying to buy the newscasts, too.”

A couple weeks ago, I had a conversation with some friends in which the lameness of Milbank emerged, and a friend urged me to take a structural understanding. After all, the guy’s on a beat that requires frivolity and rejects substance. If you write ‘Washington Sketch,’ you have to treat subjects like indefinite detention as a giggle. OK, let’s say that’s true. . . .

• Here we go again.
• Teabaggers: more white, angry, wingnutty Republicans.
• That look says it all.
• But…but…Al Gore is fat.
• What are we doing over there?
• Stay classy, Quitter.

The teaparty movement…about what you thought

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