http://www.bradblog.com Because it's not about Right or Left, it's about Right and Wrong! Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:11:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was bad enough when a majority of Republicans were so disinformed after the 2008 election that they thought ACORN stole the election (almost 10 million votes, apparently) for Barack Obama. Now that ACORN is no more (since early 2010), the massive disinformation campaign that Republicans have been suckered into believing ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9762 TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Time's running for UN climate talks (and for the planet); Record winter heat blasts the Midwest (again); NY, NJ press for billions in Sandy disaster recovery; PLUS: Cannibal lobsters ... All that and more in today's Green News ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9761 From Henry Decker at The National Memo (where, by way of full disclosure, I'm also a fairly regular contributor)... For the second time in a week, conservative Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) is breaking with his party on a hot button issue. Last Tuesday, Cole made headlines for disagreeing with House Speaker John ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9760 After four years of lousy bills, or lack thereof, brought about through unnecessary concessions, it seems as though the President has finally learned something, at least: how to make an opening bid in a negotiation. As Josh Marshall aptly described the two party's relative positions in the so-called "Fiscal Cliff" negotiations ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9759 http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9758 Why isn't the FBI or the Justice Department investigating the "widespread voter fraud" that a number of Rightwingers are claiming enabled Barack Obama to win the 2012 election? The simplest answer is that there is nothing to investigate -- at least no evidence to suggest as much at this time. Lacking ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9757 There's a reason why most Republican wingnuts don't venture outside of the safe confines of Fox "News" or other venues where they won't have to face actual, reality-based information and questions from outside of their comfortable, fact-free bubble. My conversation on air Thursday with RW "voter fraud" fraudster, commie-hunter, and fact-challenged ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9756 TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 2012 set to be one of the hottest years on record; Sea levels rising faster than predicted; Plankton is in trouble; Does air pollution raise the risk of autism?; PLUS: EPA knocks BP out of federal contracting ... ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9755 Earlier this week, we named former Reagan/Bush Sr. official Bruce Bartlett as the newest recipient of The BRAD BLOG's far-too-rarely-bestowed "Intellectually Honest Conservative" award for his blistering, must-read essay, "Revenge of the Reality-Based Community: My life on the Republican right-and how I saw it all go wrong", as published this ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9754 On my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show today we covered quite a bit of ground. From Republican admissions about the most obvious story in the world (that the Florida GOP was attempting to suppress the vote this year), to the debate over filibuster reform in the U.S. Senate, and whether it should ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9753