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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Tag Archives: military history
Morning Awful: The First Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941, has done far more than “live in infamy:” the shock and surprise of Japan’s attack drove the invention of our modern security apparatus. During the Cold War, fears of a ‘bolt from the blue’ Russian nuclear attack … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Worse Than War
What’s worse than war? Not being able to fight back. A two-hour BBC documentary about a problem from Hell:
Hemp For Victory
Remember, the whole reason Americans can’t grow hemp and make a thousand products out of it is that it looks just like something you smoke for fun.
Why I’m Not a Drone Hysteric
Drone fever: catch it! RT America, in August: The US will drop billions on defense spending with the purchasing of 55 Global Hawk drone planes over the next few years. Each of the four dozen-plus spy crafts comes at a … Continue reading
Moammar Gadhafi Chose His Death
The Libyan revolution lasted nine months. According to the Vice President, America’s involvement cost the US taxpayer about $2 billion — less than one week’s expenses in Afghanistan. It turns out that helping people free themselves is cheaper in blood … Continue reading
Rolling Up Libya In Detail
The southern city of Sabha has fallen; so have the Jufra Oasis towns of Hun, Waddan, and Sukna. Allegiances in a string of southern towns along the edge of the Sahara remain unknown. Algerian border crossings near Ghat and Ghadames … Continue reading
Defeat Strategy
Moammar Ghadafi lost the war for Libya when Tripoli fell. All his actions since then have been defeat strategy: ordering fighters to maintain resistance in a string of towns while elements of his regime find refuge outside the country. The … Continue reading
The New Test In Libya
One chief benefit of helping a democratic uprising without sending your own “boots on the ground” is that people generally want to commit fewer atrocities on their own communities: “I will be really relieved when we enter, but now I … Continue reading
On Fog of War and False Flags
I’m not surprised by how much paranoid conspiracy claptrap exists around the Osama bin Laden mission. It has become all too routine for “false flag” allegations to wave madly after such events, and that is in great part due to … Continue reading
Libya and the Modern Orientalism
Back in the days of sailing ships and waxed mustaches, a bunch of Western gentlemen (they were all men) set out to explore and understand the Muslim world. Of course, they took their prejudices with them, and their writing reflected … Continue reading
Look Whose Fault Libya Is Now
The Egyptians say it was those damn French: It is clear that without the personal intervention of French President Nicolas Sarkozy there is very little chance it would have happened. Only small children and nice- minded little old ladies are … Continue reading
