Tag Archives: politics

We already have “death panels” — they’re called health insurance companies

By probabilityZero | August 18, 2009

So, the new talking point from the far-right is that Obama’s health care plan is a secret plot to kill your grandma (as seen on Fox News and Sarah Palin’s Facebook page). They claim that the bill will create “death panels” to decide whether elderly people are worthy of care or not.
There’s no truth to [...]

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Doctored photo of Obama smoking

By probabilityZero | August 11, 2009

Politics Daily reports that the Arizona Republican Party is running a photo of Obama with a cigarette dangling from his mouth as part of their campaign against health care reform. The image appeared on AZGOP news, but appears to have since been removed.

Look how hopeless he looks — irresponsible even with his own health. Surely [...]

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Churchgoers more likely to support torture

By probabilityZero | April 30, 2009

A survey has found that those who go to church are more likely to support the use of torture, whereas those who were not affiliated with any religious organization are the least likely of those polled to support torture.
Here are the numbers: 54% of regular church goers said the use of torture is “often” or [...]

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What’s wrong with gay adoption?

By probabilityZero | January 17, 2009

Answer: there’s nothing wrong with it. It improves the lives of children by bringing them into loving homes. Where’s the problem with that?
Apparently conservatives (such as luckily-not-president McCain) believe that allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt is somehow bad or immoral. McCain had this to say about it:
I think that we’ve proven that both [...]

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Obama wins election

By probabilityZero | November 4, 2008

It’s official!
Some part of me can’t believe we did this. I went down to my local polling place earlier today and voted (Obama for President, no on prop 8 ) — absolutely no line — and nearly all my 18+ year old friends also voted today. I can imagine the turnout for this election was [...]

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Blog Action Day: Poverty in America

By probabilityZero | October 15, 2008

I was talking to a libertarian friend of mine after class a few days ago about health care and welfare. He was of the opinion that the government should not provide either, and upon further prodding he explained that he thought poor people didn’t deserve them. My friend, of course, “earned” the right to be [...]

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John McCain was the keynote speaker for ACORN in 2006

By probabilityZero | October 13, 2008

Remember that attack ad McCain put out linking Obama to the “radical” ACORN organization? Turns out McCain was the keynote speaker for ACORN during a rally in ‘06.
I don’t really have much of a problem with ACORN — the allegations of voter registration fraud coming out of Fox News are just ridiculous (by law, they [...]

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Do people actually think Obama is a terrorist?

By probabilityZero | October 10, 2008

I’m asking this question because I genuinely want to know the answer. Are there actually people out there who think Obama is a terrorist?
In case you haven’t heard, that McCain ad trying to play up a relationship between Obama and Ayers is completely misleading. Ayers was a member of the radical anti-war group the Weather [...]

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Distortions and lies in John McCain’s campaign ads

By probabilityZero | September 29, 2008
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Palin and “sexism”

By probabilityZero | September 9, 2008

Recently, a lot has been made about “sexist” comments referring to Sarah Palin. Honestly, I haven’t seen them. Nothing like that has come out of the Obama campaign. Maybe you could make the agrument that it has come out of “the media,” however you want to define that, but I haven’t heard any from the [...]

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McCain, MLK, and civil rights

By probabilityZero | July 21, 2008

As most readers already know, John McCain opposed establishing a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1983. Most Republicans (including Cheney and Gingrich) supported it at the time, but Arizona seemed dead-set against it. The holiday became official in 1986, but only 27 states and D.C. recognized it initially. The governor of [...]

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Dennis Kucinich introduces 35 articles of impeachment against Bush

By probabilityZero | June 10, 2008

I caught a bit of this live on C-Span yesterday, and I think it’s about damn time. Of course this isn’t going anywhere, but it’s nice to see my favorite congressmen up there saying what myself and millions of other people think.
As readers of this blog may remember, I supported Kucinich in the Democratic primary [...]

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