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Rand Paul seeks the counsel of Britney Spears

July 19, 2011 – 9:30 am

Rand Paul recently took part in the 2011 Congressional Baseball Game, where the self-certified ophthalmologist fittingly struck out looking in his only at bat. While there was regrettably no footage of the backwards K, there was footage of Kentucky’s esteemed senator answering this question: Q: “If you could ask (Britney Spears) any question, what would that [...]

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McConnell’s debt plan dubbed the ‘Pontius Pilate Act,’ tea party backlash continues

July 18, 2011 – 3:21 pm

Remember back in the days when D.C. Republicans were too busy fighting amongst themselves to launch a united front against Democrats? Well, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s debt ceiling plan compromise with President Obama and Harry Reid, it appears we are back to the good ol’ days. McConnell’s complicated plan, which would essentially allow Obama to [...]

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Sen. Rand Paul trounced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, pesky logic

May 12, 2011 – 1:00 pm

In a hearing on the state of the United States’ for-profit, non-competitive, people-killing  healthcare system (which isn’t, by the way, worth a damn), national embarrassment and freshman Republican senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, clashed with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over ideology and, so it would also seem, the basic rules of logical thought. Birefly, [...]

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Rand Paul’s got toilet problems

March 10, 2011 – 1:36 pm

John Galt, aka Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., lambasted the United States Department of Energy for its inability to keep the toilets in the Paul household free and flowing like the mighty free market intended. As it turns out, rules and regulations prevent Paul, a grown man, from taking a plunger to his nugget-filled commode, buying [...]

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Rand Paul calls Roe v. Wade “horrific judicial travesty,” seeks return to 19th century

January 25, 2011 – 10:19 am

Now that he’s thrown his weight behind the so-called Life at Conception Act, Kentucky’s junior Sen. Rand Paul wants to throw women (i.e. less-hairy, non-male humans) in the slammer for aborting fetuses of Providence. In this free-market spirit, Paul issued a statement yesterday declaring  Roe v. Wade a “horrific judicial travesty,” capitalizing on the 38th anniversary of [...]

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Mayor Fischer and Sen. Paul meet

January 14, 2011 – 2:57 pm

At a formal meeting Friday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer welcomed U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, to his office where the two discussed ways they can work together in order to advance the city and state’s needs. From the Mayor’s Office: It was the first formal meeting between Fischer and Paul and it follows a meeting [...]

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Real Paultards of D.C.

January 4, 2011 – 3:25 pm

The news that Kentucky Sen.-elect Rand Paul is moving in a condo with his father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, sounds like a plot for a situation comedy or reality TV show, but the two will in fact be “roomies” when the 112th Congress convenes. From WLKY: “I think we’ll get along well. In fact, I [...]

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Paul dishes on Hitler/Obama in never-before-seen interview

November 18, 2010 – 10:57 am

Put on your tin-foil hats, true believers: Kentucky’s senator-elect, Rand Paul, has some interesting things to tell you about how democracy is actually fascism, why thought crime is bad and a host of other batshit insane things in an interview with Mr. Batshit himself, Alex Jones, conducted well before Mitch McConnell sunk his hooks into [...]

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Paul wins Kentucky U.S. senate race (& a brief post-mortem)

November 2, 2010 – 9:13 pm

It’s official. All hail your new Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, aka The Man Who Would Be Jim Bunning. The Bowling Green ophthalmologist and Tea Party faux-messiah has bested  his Democratic opponent, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. Conway offered his congratulations from his loser’s party, held at Louisville’s downtown Marriott hotel, where the mood suggests a [...]

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Rand Paul is your new Kentucky senator

November 2, 2010 – 7:11 pm

You were surprised? Check back later for the full post-mortem…

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