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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: End Times
A Brief History of Great Disappointments
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard that 89-year old Harold Camping, nonagenarian evangelical leader, has predicted that Rapture will arrive this Saturday. If you’re like me, your first question was “can I have his stuff?” and your second question was … Continue reading
Individuality Under Assault
Via David Neiwert at C&L: CNN offers a disturbing look into the rhetoric of the Hutaree militia. Neiwert does a good job dissecting it all here, but there’s one aspect that I don’t think gets enough attention: the Fight Club-like … Continue reading
The Paranoid Universe
Last June, the New York Times took a look at the present-day John Birch Society: Yet for others, the John Birch Society is urgently relevant to the matters of today, in its support of secure borders and limited government, its … Continue reading
The Eyes of Elimination
Gregory Girard, the creepy-looking dude to the right, is a tea party wingnut. Massachusetts authorities have arrested him for assembling a weapons cache that included military grade weapons, explosive devices including tear gas and pepper ball canisters, camouflage clothing, knives, … Continue reading
Dear Harold Estes
I read your missive to the president, and once again feel it necessary to repeat that despite being a veteran myself, I don’t put much stock in those whose primary qualification is listed as “veteran” because what follows is generally … Continue reading
The Beck-Van Impe Nexus
Even as I’ve researched Beck’s sources, it seems to me that he’s been sounding more and more like Jack Van Impe. Take this latest slice of his radio show, as recorded by Media Matters: Greece is “collapsing,” Beck claims, because … Continue reading
