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How Indiana’s Senators voted on the gun-safety bills

April 18, 2013 · by Brian · in Politics

Earlier this week, Indiana Senator Dan Coats joined 28 other Republicans (and 2 “Democrats”) in attempting to filibuster the gun safety law (specifically, the “Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013”) working its way through the Senate. Coats justified his…

Accidental shootings mark “Gun Appreciation Day”

January 20, 2013 · by Brian · in Politics

I’m not a part of the gun tribe – I just didn’t grow up in that culture. No one in my family hunts, so I didn’t fire a real gun until I was probably 11 or 12 years old and…

Reno 911 cast photo

“Sheriffs First” anti-gun-control bill in Indiana legislature

January 16, 2013 · by Brian · in Politics

Last night, Josh Marshall noted the case of an Oregon sheriff who claims he will refuse to enforce any federal gun control laws. Marshall seemed surprised by this, writing: However that may be, random Sheriffs can’t judge and nullify federal…

Stephen Colbert: Politicos & Paranoid Fantasies

December 7, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

Stephen Colbert on Rick Santorum’s conspiracy theories and the Senate rejecting the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (From the December 5, 2012 episode of The Colbert Report.) Partial transcript: And folks, they are not the only politicos out…

Milhouse explains the anti-dinner conspiracy

Conspiriocracy: government by conspiracy theory

December 5, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

The United States is no longer a nation governed by laws. Nor is it governed by men, nor by faith, nor by reason. (If it ever was the latter…) Today, we’re governed by conspiracy theories. One of the threads of…

Snip from "Into The Wild Green Yonder"

Indiana Congressmen, conspiracy theories, and Susan Rice

November 28, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

I noted this in passing on Twitter the other day, but I think it bears repeating: Indiana GOP Representatives Larry Bucshon (IN-8), Dan Burton (IN-5), Todd Rokita (IN-4), & Marlin Stutzman (IN-3) all signed on to a conspiracy-theory-backed letter strongly…

Juxtaposition: The Real Threat

August 3, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

Since her failed Presidential bid, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has spent the last several months working on her Johnny Iselin impression, trying to compile a list of the 207 57 card-carrying Muslims in the Department of Defense and other agencies….

Trent Franks admits his bill is about more than racially-based abortions

February 15, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

Arizona Republican Trent Franks has been making the rounds to build support for his bill to ban the nonexistent problem of racially-based abortions. On the Concerned Women for America radio program, Franks admitted his bill is just part of an…

Indiana Republicans sign on to “Black Genocide” bill

February 7, 2012 · by Brian · in Politics

Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, is probably most famous for his groundbreaking historical theory that black Americans were better off under slavery. But this week, Franks re-introduced his conspiracy theory anti-abortion bill, the grandiosely-named “Susan B. Anthony and…

Olbermann names Dan Burton as “Worst Person”

June 25, 2010 · by Brian · in Politics

On Wednesday, Media Matters caught Indiana Congressman Dan Burton promoting conspiracy theories on the floor of the House. And this time, it wasn’t about how Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster. Instead, Burton – along with his Texas counterpart, Rep. Louie…

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