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The left often alleges that conservatives don't merely dislike government but deliberately undermine it for political or financial gain (and sometimes both). Daily Kos blogger Mark Sumner chimed in to that effect this past Sunday. Sumner writes that conventional wisdom blames "rising incivility" and "simple intransigence" for Washington's failure to accomplish much of anything, but that in reality the central issue is "sabotage. 2013 Republicans are the 1919 Black Sox of politics, and the fix is in." This deliberate destabilization, Sumner argues, s...
Coleen Rooney has opened up on her husband Wayne Rooney's cheating scandals in her new autobiography My Account and revealed an awkward encounter with Wayne's escort
Conservatives and liberals are suddenly united by a common feeling: a mutual disgust at the media.
By now you've heard the cookie joke. You know: a CEO, a tea party member, and a union worker are all sitting at a table when a plate with a dozen cookies arrives. Before anyone else can make a move, the CEO reaches out to rake in eleven of the cookies. When the other two…