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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: Iran
Iran Hysteria: Running the Numbers
The United States military is going to keep 15,000 troops in Kuwait. This makes many observers worry about increased tensions with Iran. RT America can stand for the others: Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the … Continue reading
Electronic Warfare
Iran’s captured drone certainly didn’t land without a bump, as you can see in this still I took from the video released yesterday: that ding is the kind of mark a small tree or bush leaves on an aircraft. Flat … Continue reading
They’ll Fight For Freedom, Wherever There’s Trouble
I promise, this series is not just a bunch of cool logos I made in GIMP. (CLICK TO EMBIGGEN) Magic Love Hose makes comics for OsborneInk.com. He lives in Canada where he can lob grenades into America’s political process from … Continue reading
Persian Oligarchy
His idiotic Holocaust revisionism, aggressive statements on Israel, and avowed Mahdism make it easy to draw the popular caricature of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a crazy, nuclear-obsessed dictator. He is just a useful distraction for the regime, though, as … Continue reading
Lula’s Nuclear Deal
Let me begin by reasserting that I don’t believe Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Iran wants nuclear power because there’s a demographic bulge threatening its electrification success, the price of oil is high enough to justify selling it instead … Continue reading
The Memory Hole
Radio Free Europe reports that the only books allowed at this year’s Tehran book fair are those written since 2005, the year he took office. Iran’s Writers Association has said in a statement that a number of prominent publishing houses … Continue reading
Whither Sanctions?
In announcing that the united States would forego nuclear response to non-nuclear attack, the president hinted at his approach to Iran sanctions: Mr. Obama said he wanted a new United Nations sanctions resolution against Iran “that has bite,” but he … Continue reading
Grand Bazaar
The Mall of America ain’t got nothin’ on this place. Ten square kilometers of shopping!
Saturday Afternoon TV
Modern Warfare’s Iran-Iraq War
Carpet Salesman Alert
From Newsmax comes hype for a book by a pseudonymous Persian and former member of the Iranian Republican Guard: His greatest frustration, he said, was not being able to persuade his CIA handlers of the threat from Iran’s rulers. “I … Continue reading
Security Council Whip Count
There is no greater test of a consensus-builder than the United Nations. Literally nothing happens in that building without everyone who matters plus a majority of the rest. So when we read that a diplomatic effort in Europe has led … Continue reading
