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Category Archives: politics
I was a punk before you were!
Complaints that when Sarah Palin does a speaking engagement at a conference, she gives a Sarah Palin speech. I find this sort of “it was so much better when it was just us cool kids, now everyone’s into it” sort … Continue reading
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My marching orders come in 140 chars or less
Rove tweets: Reading Obama budget: criticized 43 for adding 2.9 tril to debt in 8 yrs (CONT’D) but BHO plans adding 3.2 tril by end FY10, 20 mths, 11 days into term, +4.7tril w/in 4 yrs. WOW WOW is right. … Continue reading
Sound bite
So, John McCain was joking around the other night: He then launched into a point of contention in the Obama camp – voter registration. “So, you know I have fun with the media. We all know that the press is … Continue reading
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Dire prediction
Hugh Hewitt: Hillary will probably become the new Teddy K. –a lioness of the Senate, serving there until the end of days for most of us. She will even enjoy and perhaps earn a unique sort of authority, an uber … Continue reading
Good news and bad news
Assuming they’re both guilty of what the rumors say they’ve done, the upside is that they aren’t as stupid as they sound. The downside is that they’re even bigger scumbags than I’ve been assuming they are, if that’s even possible. … Continue reading
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Expanding the reach of the regulatorium
This is almost as ridiculous as it is evil: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for … Continue reading
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A fraud, a political stunt, a criminal imposture
David Warren writes: The more I think about “global warming”, in light of the most recent United Nations report, the more confident I become in averring that it is a fraud, a political stunt, a criminal imposture, that every intelligent … Continue reading
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Senator Incitatus (D, MA)
Roman emperor Caligula wanted to make his favorite horse a consul, I suspect for two reasons: first, to indicate his lack of respect for Roman officialdom, and second, to indicate that he was totally bug-fuck crazy. From VDH’s Works and … Continue reading
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It’s the foreign policy, stupid
Hilarious! The GOP commissioned this from David Zucker, however they (unfortunately but understandably) passed on running it. Podcast here. (via)
Google no-knock hack
Radley Balko on the rise of the militarization of our police: Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. … Continue reading
Maybe the pendulum is swinging the other way
People seem pretty unhappy with the police state in Iran.
The familiar hue and cry
…goes up anytime the US sends its armed forces somewhere, especially univited. But once US troops get where they’re going and get settled in, no one ever wants them to leave: The U.S. is pulling almost all of its military … Continue reading
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Demographics and weak stomachs
Having read Steyn’s latest, NZC opines And for example, the whole assumption that societies with low birth rates will continue to decline is persuasive but not at all obvious. People can change their behaviors. I’m not saying they will, I’m … Continue reading
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Centralized decision-making, ignorance, and media hype
Michael Crichton posts another of his speeches, detailing the history of our priesthood’s^H^H^H^H^H^Hmedia’s ability to grok complexity, and the fine job it does educating the the public about it. I’m reminded of Kelly’s blogpost about the park service. Apparently the … Continue reading
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Last call
Somehow, I just can’t get that worked up about this: Masked gunmen stormed into a club for United Nations workers in Gaza City on Sunday and blew up the drinking hall in a new sign of spiralling unrest ahead of … Continue reading
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America sucks
Lee Harris hits one out of the park with his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: …let us consider some of the people who have won it in the past, and see if their names are more familiar to you than mine … Continue reading
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They were against the constitution before they were for it
Prof. Tabarrok notices some political hypocrisy. Hilarious!
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You can pick your nose
…but you can’t pick your family: “You know Wafah bin Ladin?” Valvo asks the men loudly. “Wafah Dufour,” she snaps, shooting him a look that’s more pleading than hostile. [...] Ms. Dufour, who’s vague about her age but almost certainly … Continue reading
Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco!
This is probably horrible, but while reading Fran’s post about torture, when I came to the Church’s position “The varieties of crime are numerous: all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations … Continue reading
This just in
The news media leans left. In other breaking news, water is found to be wet.