Today's news was a prime example of how America is not the gold-standard society it wants to pretend that it is ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure this is why Romney isn't going to win over women voters.

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You're welcome, ladies and gents who are so inclined.


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Mother Jones: 3; Mitt Romney: 0

Oh, Mitt Romney. This is an absolute disaster for you. Let me count the ways.


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I will be the first to admit that this could be perceived as kind of petty, but I'm proper peeved right now. Y'know why? Two words: Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan is not handsome. I'll be the one to say it, and I want the news media to stop telling me what a hunk this guy is because it's absolutely irrelevant to the race, does not help discuss his possible ( Read more... )

So, here at Spade News, we try to say it like it is. In honoring that tradition, I would like to cordially invite all Sarah Palin fanatics to shut the hell up.

I'm sure by now everyone has heard about the unspeakable tragedy in Arizona. It's a heart-wrenching moment in America's history, and this violence has no place in a peaceful democratic ( Read more... )

I am extremely frustrated with the United States House of Representatives ( Read more... )

Hello all, and welcome to a test-drive. I send out an e-mail a few times a week with all you would ever need to know about what's going on in the world today [ enter your e-mail here if you would like to receive it thattaway], and I figured that since I'm already compiling it, I might as well take a few extra minutes and put it here as well in an ( Read more... )

Hello, current-event follower.

I'm virtuistic, a writer, journalist, and opinionated blog-fiend. This is spade_news, a place where I take the news, the spin, and the talking points and then strip the stale jargon from it to replace it with context, research, personality, and perhaps a hint of cheek. My goal is to simply call a spade a spade ( Read more... )

I DON'T LIKE HILLARY CLINTON.
And this makes me like her even less.I do not, and can not, trust this woman. Everything about her, every word she says, every facial expression she makes just oozes with pre-planned, pre-packaged, faux-sincerity and strategy. I firmly believe that she does not stand for anything. There is not a truthful, convicted, ( Read more... )

Star Tribune: Edina

Drug officers raided Image, a clothing store in the Southdale Center geared towards youths, on Thursday morning and found brown paper bags with what appear to be marijuana and cocaine, as well as a bag with $8,000 in cash. [full story here]The store was owned by two brothers, age 24 and 26, both of whom were arrested during the ( Read more... )