December 9, 2008
MPACUK, a British Muslim “empowerment system” according to its web site, says that it will no longer apologize for the acts of Islamic terrorists. This video, MPACUK says, explains why Muslims have turned to violence against their “executioners”: Quite a lot of build ...
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In a stunning blow to Democratic Party claims to represent a reversal of years of Republican corruption, Illinois Governor Blagojevich has been arrested this morning. Charges include attempts by the Governor to trade an appointment to President-Elect Obama’s Senate seat for Blagojevich’...
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The appointment of retired general Eric Shinseki to head Veterans Affairs has drawn positive reactions from many fronts. Most notably, it has drawn praise from numerous veterans associations, including Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Vietnam Veterans of America and Veterans for Common Sens...
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That’s PC-speak (aka ‘Newspeak’) for saying William Ayers’ Op-Ed piece in the New York Times is a steaming pile of crap. Or, in plain English, self serving lies. Ayers would like us all to know that he’s just a nice tweedy academic who was a bit intemperate in his you...
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I hoped everyone enjoyed their end of Prohibition parties yesterday and are very gently dealing with the consequences today. 75 years ago the 21st amendment to the Constitution was passed, becoming the only amendment specifically created to annul another amendment. The wildly unsuccessful attempt to...
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Obama used his weekly address to lay out the basics of a massive public works program which will seek to bolster the economy and simultaneously fix aging infrastructure: Click here to view the embedded video. Throughout the campaign Obama has discussed the need for renovating infrastructure and the ...
go to article »December 5, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court is about is consider and then immediately dismiss a lawsuit challenging Obama’s citizenship on the basis of a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories from the loonier fringes of the far right. Hopefully, this will put this issue to rest among all but the black-helicopt...
go to article »December 4, 2008
Glenn Greenwald reports the inevitable: Democrats’ attitude about harsh interrogation techniques has changed now that their man has been elected and is about to assume responsibility for the continued security of the free world. It’s an unenviable job in many respects, in particula...
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Continuing in his legitimate and very personal outrage about the passage of Proposition 8 in California, Andrew Sullivan has embraced an ugly turn towards overt anti-Mormonism. He cites the organization of the LDS Church as a potentially troubling launching pad to a rather Orwellian violation of c...
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Oliver Hart, professor of economics at Harvard, and Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business, say that Bush administration economists have abandoned principle in their rush to bail out financial giants AIG, among others. The government, Hart and Zingales say, shou...
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