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• Your help needed: A Thanksgiving list

  Tue Nov 23, 2010
  • I'm thankful I won't get dropped from my parent's health insurance after my birthday in a few weeks, thanks to health care reform. I'm thankful my family can be healthy, happy and safe this holiday season.

• Chart: What the secret money bought

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • It's worth noting that Rep Defazio (D, OR) won last night against Art Robinson, who may be remembered by his horribly crazy interview with Maddow a few weeks ago.  So at least unlimited secret money won't buy the election for increasingly radical candidates in every race.

• "If it were possible to smear a person by quoting to him things that he has published in his own newsletter"

  Thu Oct 7, 2010
  • As to the claim that Art Robinson is "a damned good scientist," he was fired by Linus Pauling (winner of two unshared Nobel prizes) from his institute for amateurish research techniques.  On current campaign literature, he is currently claiming to have been a friend and colleauge of …

• Morning Maddow: September 16

  Thu Sep 16, 2010
  • If you're looking to cover another crazy wingnut (and let's be honest, isn't that sometimes the best part of the show?), check out the race in Oregon's 4th District.

• A tattoo for America

  Thu Aug 5, 2010
  • Hatenomor, I think you are distracted from the real immigration problem. The solution to the problem of undocumented workers is not to focus on the illegal immigration issue but to reform or remove the quota system that has stood largely unchanged since the 1920's.

• A tattoo for America

  Thu Aug 5, 2010
  • Awesome tattoo! What a great way to make sure you're constantly reminding yourself and others of that ideal.

• Group read: Prop 8 ruling

  Wed Aug 4, 2010
  • This underscores how little logic is at the heart of Prop 8. It's not only that the law is bigoted and homophobic and at odds with the ideals of liberty and justice - it also doesn't make ANY SENSE, apparently not even to the defendants.

• Palin: Rand Paul a victim of Maddow's bias. 'Gotcha moment' more than 14 minutes

  Mon May 24, 2010
  • Jamie, I think that it's extremely naive to consider racial discrimination on the part of both public AND private institutions to merely amount to "hurt feelings." Racial discrimination and segregation is/was a form of violence that created an entire population of second class citizens.