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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. is a writer, lawyer and mediator who began writing Warranted Wiretaps -- a column focused on recording and deconstructing campaign press conference calls and other ephemeral primary sources -- as a National Correspondent for The Huffington Post's Off The Bus project in 2008. He still contributes regularly to HuffPost and to the blogs VichyDems and The NeoProgressive, and lives well outside the Beltway with his wife, daughers, and big doofy dog.
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A Hasty Response to the Predictable Arguments of Gun Nuts
Every time something like this happens, we get the same arguments against gun control from the same gun-rights nitwits. Rather than keep explaining repeatedly why those excuses are wrong, here's my quick-and-dirty short list of rebuttals to the NRA line: Continue reading
Posted Dec 14, 2012 at Thersites
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Exclusive Video: Boehner/Obama Meeting on Fiscal Cliff
Because this is how games of chicken are played, people. Continue reading
Posted Dec 13, 2012 at Thersites
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The "Help America Vote Act" I'd Like to See
Voter impersonation fraud is nearly nonexistent. Election fraud, on the other hand, is rampant. Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, scattered incidents nationwide today (see, e.g., this example this morning in Pennsylvania); election fraud is becoming endemic -- which is not acceptable in a democracy. As @ixh wrote on Twitter:... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Thersites
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Could Romney's Refusal to Disclose Tax Returns Really Be This Simple?
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at Thersites
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What Romney's Mormon Tithes May Say About U.S. Tax Policy
As Harry Reid keeps turning the screws on Mitt Romney, some are speculating that Mitt Romney is refusing to release his tax returns because they would reveal he has not been tithing a full ten percent of his income to his church as his faith instructs him to do. (As... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2012 at Thersites
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The First Gay Superhero (1971)
It's helpful that DC Comics will soon reveal that one of its classic cartoon superheroes is gay, even if it's not going to be Batman. Anything that helps our immature culture get over its moral/political obsession with sexual orientation qualifies as a Good Thing, for reasons ranging from individual civil... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2012 at Thersites
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The "Ben Kenobi" Clause That Might Have Been
a "Ben Kenobi" clause would have presented the Supreme Court with a stark choice: either uphold the ACA as-is, thus allowing private businesses to continue providing most of America's healthcare services (which is what conservatives want), or be the speed bumps that jolted America onto a new track, the track to socialized medicine (which is what conservatives don't want). Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2012 at Thersites
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Emails Quoting Rush Limbaugh Too Offensive for Department of Defense Email Servers
Posted Mar 6, 2012 at Thersites
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Call to Arms: Do Your Part to Take Rush Limbaugh Off American Forces Radio
Here is how you can do your part to remove Rush Limbaugh from the American Forces Radio Network. Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2012 at Thersites
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Some possible good news, at least about prospect of getting stimulus money in time for this school year, from Warranted Wiretaps: Secretary of Education press conference call.
Commented Feb 13, 2009 on Is PPS covering up plans for school closures? at OlsonOnline
Is PPS covering up plans for school closures?
(Guest post by Lynn Schore and Steve Linder) The Portland Public Schools board and district administrators appear to have deliberately concealed possible plans to close several schools in order to avoid "a big backlash" and to ensure support for their facilities recommendations and future capita...
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