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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: DADT
Morning Awful: Manning Defense
Almost exactly one year ago during the debate on DADT reversal, hate group Focus on the Family media creature Brian Fischer cited the Bradley Manning story to argue that gayness is the first step to treason. That’s ridiculous, of course. … Continue reading
A Song for Fame-Whoring Grifters
By Emilia1956 Dan Choi’s back. Really, he couldn’t stay away. Almost a year after the Senate repealed the odious DADT, after Choi had spent innumerable hours bad-mouthing the President in every way possible, and after this past summer’s hissyfit performance … Continue reading
So Don’t Vote … And This Is What You Might Get
By Emilia1956 Hey, all y’all EmoProgs and Professional Sheisters Lefties in the media … still promoting “Mitt’s the Shit” like your creature Bill Maher does from time to time … subtly promoting him as the acceptable, civilised Republican, when Ron … Continue reading
Morning Awful: the Martyrdom of Dan Choi
This is not about DADT, which has been reversed, but the ongoing career of Dan Choi. To understand, you must rearrange the ‘graffs in this AP story: Twelve other demonstrators arrested with Choi previously accepted deal with prosecutors, agreeing to … Continue reading
Bullet Points for Dan Choi, Who is Not the Queen
Memo to: CHOI, DAN, LT From: OSBORNE, MATT, SGT Date: 22 JUN 11 RE: Friendly Fire Incident Sir: I was not witness to your blue-on-blue incident at the panel entitled “What to do when the President is not that into … Continue reading
USMC Fights For DADT
The Commandant of the Marine Corps opposes overturning DADT? Color me unsurprised. As the US Army’s history on service integration of minorities puts it: The Truman order, the Fahy Committee, even the demands of civil rights leaders and the mandates … Continue reading
The Phillips Opportunity
Over at FDL, Marcy Wheeler isn’t so sure Judge Phillips’ DADT injunction is the total victory for which human rights activists have been waiting: It is hard to see how the federal government in DC can allow a single remote … Continue reading
Memorial Day
Since the founding of the United States some 1,200,000 Americans have died in furtherance of freedom — or, at least, what the commander-in-chief called freedom. We remember that sacrifice today with speeches, cookouts, and televisual retrospectives. We mostly pretend to … Continue reading
Sheehan Is Full Of Shit
John Sheehan, (Gen., US Army, Rtd) told a House committee yesterday that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell must remain the policy of the United States military because having open gays turned the Dutch into such wussies they couldn’t prevent the genocide … Continue reading
Dear Lt. Choi
Sir, As a disabled veteran I will never have the privilege of sharing a foxhole with you, but I’d gladly do it. You have more personal integrity than nine out of ten officers I’ve served under, which is no dig … Continue reading
The Art of Reversal
Sure, Obama might have just issued an executive order and done away with DADT with a pen-stroke. But rather than set himself against the Pentagon, Obama decided to utilize the chain of command to strengthen the case for a reversal … Continue reading
