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Meet the NRA board of directors; Not exactly your average deer hunters

September 14, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

The National Rifle Association works hard on its image.

They'd like you to imagine that the NRA's board is made up of people who are primarily interested in hunting, target shooting, gun collecting, and other mainstream pursuits.

But in reality, the NRA leadership is largely a group of hard-core extremists, interested in far more than hunting a few deer. A new website, by the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, introduces the board's members. You'll be  surprised, if not shocked, to learn who they are and what they represent. Here's how the website describes them:

One only has to look to the NRA’s Board of Directors to discover that the organization is operated by a group of individuals who promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant animus, religious bigotry, anti-environmentalism, and insurrectionism. Some active board members have even had close relationships with brutal dictators in outside nations. Put simply, members of the NRA leadership no longer make for polite company.

 

Wisconsin Officials: Free WI Voter ID Not Issued Free Is Not Not Wrong

September 12, 2011 by The Political E...

Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb is just the latest Republican official - - from George Bush-to-Dick Cheney-to-Donald Rumsfeld-to-Scott Fitzgerald-to-Scott Walker - - to adhere to the party's first principle: no apologies, no backing down, regardless of how badly you've screwed up or how flat-out wrong you are.

Gottlieb endorsed his party's love affair with "no" defending Steven Krieser, a former DMV manager recently elevated to senior management, who had told line workers in writing to withhold from citizen customers applying for the new state voter ID that the ID is free, reports the Capital Times, the paper that found Krieser's Don't-Tell-Unless-They-Ask written directive last week.

To jam himself into the requisite Republican negative template, however, Gottleib's tied himself in nots with the rare quintuple negative.  Few have jumped through that many hoops to validate something so loopy:

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August 28, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

In an interview on NBC’s “Dateline,” former Vice President Dick Cheney says that his new book, “In My Time,” will have “heads exploding all over Washington.” Whatever readers think of Mr. Cheney’s politics, their heads are more likely to explode from frustration than from any sense of revelation. Indeed, the memoir — delivered in dry, often truculent prose — turns out to be mostly a predictable mix of spin, stonewalling, score settling and highly selective reminiscences. -- Michiko Kakutani in the NY Times.