January 2011
69 posts
Should slanderous attacks be allowed to succeed?
“You could, of course, argue that Palin isn’t qualified for the office, but the obvious response to that is “More qualified than who?” Than goofy Gore? Than spineless, no-one-ever-follows-me Kerry? Than posturing Obama? Palin’s brief but obvious executive talent as governor isn’t proof that she’ll make a good President. But it easily trumps anything...
“The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via 18goingon80) (via laliberty)
Obama has learned that Bush was right
“I think he’s been through the fires of becoming president and having to make decisions and live with the consequences. I think he’s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate … I think he’s learned from experience.”
- Dick Cheney on NBC’s Today show
All these Liberal groups are posting articles...
thegayrepublican:
that this is the end of Sarah Palins Political Career because of Giffords shooting.
Idd like to just add my two sense into this…..
http://tinyurl.com/4v8vapj
Heh. Watch their heads explode.
Feeling stimulated yet?
The Misery Index is the combination of the inflation rate with the unemployment rate.
Bush inherited a misery index of 7.93.
Obama inherited an index of 7.73.
Right now? It’s 10.94.
“We had a massive strategy to use the ‘fairness doctrine’ to challenge and harass...”
– Bill Ruder Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce during the Kennedy Administration. (via nomosshere)
“[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they...”
– Orson Scott Card
Quote of the Day: 1/24/10
(via nomosshere)
“When Kos gloated over the deaths of Americans in Fallujah, the media wasn’t...”
– Suddenly the Media is Concerned About Tone | RedState (via conservatarian)
"They've crossed the line ..."
A comment in the The New Republic about a story on Sarah Palin:
“Good lord, Jon! Who cares if it’s intellectually dishonest to attack her and pin this on her. I admire your honestly and lack of cynicism here, but the teaparty has crossed the line of good taste in their vile and violence-laced attacks and rhetoric aimed towards politicians in BOTH PARTIES. I should think that all...
“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather...”
– Ronald Reagan (via hurmoth)
The concept of Self-Ownership, a major tenet of the Philosophy of Liberty, means you are responsible for your own actions.
(via evilteabagger)
Twitter Wants Me Dead →
I just noticed this symbol that appears directly under the main entry box on every Twitter user’s home page:
Those are cross-hairs.
I used to think it was just a harmless, universal symbol for “location” as in, well…”Add your location.” But thanks to Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas I now know the truth.
Twitter wants me dead.
Evil Teabagger: The Ant and the Grasshopper. →
coeus:
indywasthedog:
This is total ignorant bullshit.
I’m so tired of people who are better off claiming that everyone has equal opportunity in this country, and that with enough hard work anyone can be rich. that is a lie. I don’t understand why people can’t understand that. As long as we live in a capitalistic society, we will always have a low class. Our society could not function without...
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Who's inciting who?
According to the recent mainstream media template some hotheads in the Republican party have created a situation through inflammatory talk and (lordy!) gun sights on maps, whereby the Republicans could be accused of inciting assassination.
That they might do this seems nearly incomprehensible but let’s follow the logic.
What happens if, God forbid, in the future there is violence...
“Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense of...”
– Climate of Hate - NYTimes.com
You know Paul, I generally like you. I view as the doddering old fool of an uncle at the family reunion spouting crazy shit that nobody really listens too. And it’s the same stuff over and over again, just carefully recycled and re-spun for the next column.
But this...
The Political Culture →
jeffmiller:
There’s so much talk of the today’s polarized political culture, and how it might have had something to do with the Tucson tragedy yesterday. I’m trying to think of a time when we didn’t have such strong feelings by those out of power.
Was it during the Bush years, when the president was accused of stealing the election in 2000, and then again in 2004?
Was it in the Clinton...
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: ‘The health care bill is a...
“The health care bill is a disaster,” Thomas continued. “We’re sort of slowly learning – it’s not working. It’s interesting – they’re implementing it and it’s not working out at all as people anticipated. There’s all sorts of wildly wrong projections. As it’s being practiced – it’s failed.” The Daily Caller
Jared Loughner's college instructor: I was worried...
The Washington Post:
A community college instructor who taught Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner was so disturbed by the student’s outbursts in class that he requested Loughner’s removal from the course, he told the Washington Post in an interview Sunday.
Ben McGahee, a third-year instructor at Pima Community College, taught Loughner in an elementary algebra class last...
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Right Conduct and Freedom
I decided many years ago that even with the best of intentions society can’t legislate morality. Likewise we can’t legislate consideration, respect, kindness or understanding. Civilization cannot be imposed upon a people. All of these things have to grow, organically, from the inside out. We can pass laws regulating behavior but we cannot compel others to be good people. It...
“Within minutes of the shooting being made known, two of the highest profile left-wing bloggers, Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos and Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress, pulled out a 10-month-old electoral map used at a Sarah Palin website showing almost two dozen congressional districts being targeted, including Giffords’ district. The map was similar to one used by the Democratic...
Markos Moulitsas put Congressmen, including Rep.... →