30%

According to the Department of Justice, 30% of all female murder victims are killed by an “intimate”. 18.4% are murdered by their husbands, with another 10.3 killed by a boyfriend. In an average year, there are 17,000 murders in the united States, which shakes out to roughly 4,879 women killed every year by domestic violence.
Think [...]

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RIP, Dave Cockrum

I figure everyone else has done a comic-themed post… Why not?
I just wish mine was under happier circumstances.
If you’ve seen any of the X-Men movies, you’ve enjoyed his work without knowing it. In 1975, Dave Cockrum, along with writer Len Wein, revived and reinvented a failed Marvel Comics franchise from the 1960’s called “X-Men”. In [...]

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The Wal-Martyrs

This holiday season, it’s important thatwe all do our part to strengthen American society by not supporting organizations that seem hellbent on destroying it—
Like Wal-Mart, the corporate giant that made $121.8 billion in profit last year, yet manages to pay employees so little and provide so little in the way of benefits that new hires [...]

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Thanksgiving in LA

No, not that LA. This past Thanksgiving’s weekend I got to visit the great State of Louisiana for the first time. The entire four days were a total immersion crash course in Creole-Cajun culture – but one that is only available to those brave enough to venture into the dark foggy back roads of Louisiana.
I [...]

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See What You Miss If You Don’t Use MySpace?

Sick, sick bastards.

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Feeling Drafty?

New York Congressman Charles Rangel has revived discussion of a military draft.
“There’s no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their [...]

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A Message from Liz Rincon

To All of Those Who Helped and Voted:
I would like to extend my greatest thanks to all of those in the 9th Congressional District that helped out and VOTED on E-Day. The Cohen Campaign was about a positive change for Memphis. That campaigns can be won on the grassroots level, though community involvement and volunteer [...]

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Hoyer Elected Majority Leader

It’s not exactly the worst thing that could have happened. Although Hoyer is certainly of the corporatist wing of the party that I tend to distrust, he likely would have been my choice had I been given one.
I hate political corruption. I loathe it with every fiber of my being. Operation Tennessee [...]

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The March of the Lame Ducks

President Bush has made it clear that his immediate agenda is to push through two of his nominees before the keys to Capitol Hill are handed over to the new Democratic majority.
John Bolton was recess appointed as UN Ambassador in August 2005 after having been filibustered in March of that year. And Robert Gates is [...]

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Volunteering for Jury Duty…

… at least when they bring this bastard to trial. I would like to play a part, however meager, in burying this bastard under the jail.
Every year, I wait eagerly for the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report— It’s one of the few things that has actually improved with this White House. Since [...]

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Sad News…

Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes died of leukemia today.

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The Empire Strikes Out

In 1996, the people of the Ninth District had every reason to be optimistic. A scandal-ridden but responsive congressman was leaving office. The choices in the primary to replace him both seemed like decent enough choices— A State Senator named Steve Cohen and the congressman’s own son, Harold Ford Jr.
He looked like his father and [...]

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Throw the GOP Down the Well

Posted on behalf of the lovely Pam, who is having problems with Blogger today.
To the tune of Borat’s “Throw the Jew Down the Well”:
In my country there is problem,And that problem is the GOP.It took very very long,Because the country is dumb.
Throw the GOP down the well,So my country can be free.We must make voting [...]

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House of Blues (and the Senate too!)

To quote my favorite fictional democrat:
“Victory is mine, victory is mine, great day in the morning people, victory is mine…. I drink from the keg of glory… bring me the finest muffins and bagels in the land!”
–Josh Lyman
That pretty much sums it up for all Dems.
PS: CONGRATULATIONS CONGRESSMAN COHEN!!!

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Election ‘06— The End of an Era

You love this townEven if that doesn’t ring trueYou’ve been all overAnd it’s been all over you
It’s a beautiful dayDon’t let it get awayIt’s a beautiful day
America awoke today to a drastically changed political landscape, with only a victory party hangover to prove that it wasn’t just some beautiful dream.
Not a single Democratic member of [...]

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Thanks.

First, I would like to thank Harold Ford. His arrogance in leaving the safest Democratic seat in the nation to chase after a Senate seat that only he thought he had much of a crack at (Were Bob Corker not a blundering idiot, this race wouldn’t have been close) opened the door for us to [...]

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Ever Had the ATM Give You Too Many $20 Bills?

Me either.
So why is it that the ATMs and the voting machines are made by the same company, yet the voting machines never seem to work right?
Because of one glitch after another, the last Montana voter didn’t get into the booth until 11:55 PM last night, delaying the second part of our victory party until [...]

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In My District There Is Problem… (Sorry, Borat)

In the Ninth District, we saw what was probably the single most absurd excuse for a primary that I’ve ever seen. Half of the candidates in that miserably weak field could have their entire platforms summed up by Borat’s “Throw the Jew Down the Well“.
But that was only the appetizer. Nothing could have prepared me [...]

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I Speak For “The Left” When I Say… We Hate You Too.

Kleinheider over at Volunteer Voters linked to an op-ed written by Paul Burgess, former head of foreign policy speechwriting at the Bush White House called “Friends, neighbors, and countrymen of the left: I hate your lying guts”. With a title like that, you can imagine how he became head speechwriter for a silver-tongued [...]

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