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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: terrorism
Big Government at Guantanamo
Let’s say there’s a dangerous dog in your neighborhood. Nearby are two agencies, one with a truck that has a cage in the back and experienced professionals who catch dogs all the time. The other doesn’t normally deal with loose … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Missing SAMs
This is actually a threat. I experienced a SAM scare on a MAC flight into Kuwait once; it wasn’t fun, and it happened more than four years before the war with al-Qaeda was even on the horizon for most Americans. … Continue reading
Progressives Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Having cut the purse strings for civilian trials, Congress left the DoJ with only two choices: (a) continue to hold Gitmo subjects indefinitely, without trial, or (b) try them in military courts. The result today is a lot of angry … Continue reading
Preexisting Failure
How Republicans reacted to the news that accused embassy bomber Ahmed Ghailani has been found not guilty on almost all charges: U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday’s verdict confirms that the Obama … Continue reading
Why I Don’t Care For Latter-Day Socialists
Actual, real, not-imaginary ones, I mean. This is stupid conspiracy-mongering of the first order: It is impossible to determine how much is fact and how much is fiction in the ever-expanding claims being made regarding two packages from Yemen allegedly … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Hijacked History
I’d hoped to be able to include Ted Koppel’s piece at BBC America tonight, but it’s not available in embeddable format yet (note to BBC: why?). So here’s Ted Koppel in his WaPo op-ed the other day: The attacks of … Continue reading
Evil Mushrooms
With those black berets and khaki masks, these members of ETA look very much like evil mushrooms. Don’t they? Even more so when you don’t darken the image to make them look scary: The terrorist group ETA is the KKK … Continue reading
Pederasty and Violence
A disturbing report that shows it’s not just the girls who’ll suffer in the new Afghanistan: For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members … Continue reading
The End Of Everything
With Lady Gaga providing a clinic on posthumanist plasticity, it shouldn’t surprise us to see an attempted terrorist show up on the Canadian version of Idol. In the future, all terrorists will bomb on a reality show:
Habeas Corpus For A Rational Response
At the New Yorker, Steve Coll notes the glaring incompetence of would-be Broadway bomber Faisal Shahzad and says what I’ve been saying for years: Whatever the narrative behind Shahzad’s case turns out to be, we can take solace that we … Continue reading
Broadway Bomber
This is not the first time that Islamic terrorists have targeted a musical theatre event: In general, terrorism targets the institutions of the middle class: shopping centers, restaurants, malls, and venues. The Olympics are a target precisely because of their … Continue reading
