Whenever I see someone post one of those stupid “Miss Me Yet” posters with the picture of the stupid man who destroyed the first decade of the 21st century for America-I can’t help but think they have the picture wrong. It is the father, not the son who should be on
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That dog won’t hunt……
It is not often I agree with The Hill-so skewed and un-objective are most of their pieces; but even a broken clock is right twice a day: “I think attacking the outside money, and specifically attacking the Chamber, is of very limited value to the White House,” said former Rep.
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But not, evidently, a teabagger. Do simple arithmetic and revamp the federal budget to actually bring the deficit down in any type of meaningful way. Over at this website, there is an interactive budget simulator that allows you to do puts and takes against the federal budget-with the goal of
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I was going through my archives the other day, and I came upon a couple of posts I had written about gay marriage. Judging by the angry comments they both recieved-you would have thought I was caught red-handed molesting puppies or something. When in reality, all I was voicing was
Continue readingElmo is one lucky boy.
And American parents are a real pain in the ass. To quote my Canadian counterpart: There’s a lot that kids can learn from Ms. Perry, such as the utility of having fantastic breasts. That’s pretty powerful and it couldn’t be more appropriate in an age of economic decay. Kids need
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The Economist’s Lexington makes a provocative case that the Tea Baggers obsession with the Constitution and its framers has become unhealthy: Accept for argument’s sake that those who argue this way have identified the right problem. The constitution, on its own, does not provide the solution. Indeed, there is something
Continue readingStating it more eloquently than I
E.D. Kain over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen sums it up nicely: Conservatives have their limited-government priorities all wrong. While libertarians and the left have focused on matters of security overreach – wiretapping, surveillance, executive powers, GITMO, etc. – the right has brushed all this off and focused instead
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In Arizona:
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About the Civil War. Lex has a post up on the Civil War. It would seem Frank Rich’s column was unappreciated by him-as if anything Mr Rich wrote would be. Now Lex does have a couple of valid points: 1) Racisim was not exclusively a Southern phenomenon and the North
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Gotta run-but will have more posting tomorrow as I dig out and go see my son in “the Burgh”. Till then-just a friendly greeting for all the teabaggers taking to the street today And for all the “working women” there: P.S. Here is a better explanation of the “Lucky Ducky”
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