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A Christian Argument for Progressive Taxes
Diane Butler Bass writes that as a Christian she enjoys paying taxes. Wednesday morning, at 9 a.m. sharp, I took my tax payment to the local post office. When I handed it to the clerk, she said, “I hate tax day.” I replied, “Not me. I don’t love parting with the money, but I kinda […]
Friday’s Open Thread
Philadelphia Flyers win just to tease fans a little more — it’s a Philly thing. Wilmington Trusts turns a first quarter profit making everyone who lives in Yorklyn, Rockland and Montchanin very happy, while New Castle County faces tough times and still the Yorklyn-Rockland-Montchanin crowd remain happy. And, finally, Paul Krugman writes: We are, or […]
Quote of the Day
We [the Republican Party] have to be comfortable recruiting candidates who do not fit the profile of an Alabama conservative. — Steve Schmidt, McCain Campaign’s chief strategist
24 Percent
A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that America, in general, is very happy with President Obama. Turns out that the Republican Party with their sore loser cries, tea bags and faux indignation could only muster a top off at 24% unfavorable rating toward America’s president. Compare this to the Worst.President.Ever had a 35% unfavorable […]
Point and Laugh for 4/24
Dana says that our enemies do worse, so torture is okay. A commenter who shows some common sense says: When I was six years old, Dana, my mother taught me that just because someone else does it, doesn’t mean I should do it. Congratulations, the United States is not quite as bad as the Taliban, […]
War is Over?
One of my all-time favorite bloggers, Tennessee’s Southern Beale has a great post from the Radical Right saying that war is over. You got it, even though we have soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Bush is considered a “War President”, somewhere between Jan. 19th and Jan 20th, the United States went from being a […]
A Lethal Mixture: Science and the Radical Right
Earlier this month Alabama’s à la Rob wrote about a new “textbook” for homeschoolers, Facts, Nor Fear: Teaching Children About The Environment. It’s really not humorous when non-scientists delve into science. It is valuable as a model of propaganda technique in general, and of anti-regulatory rhetorical strategies in particular. Its method mostly consists of amassing […]
Thursday’s Open Thread
Sorry, we missed yesterday. Roger Cohen in the New York Times says: So I’m wary of the clamor for retribution. Congress failed. The press failed. The judiciary failed. With almost 3,000 dead, America’s checks and balances got skewed, from the Capitol to Wall Street. Scrutiny gave way to acquiescence. Words were spun in feckless patterns. […]
El Nombre de El Somnambulo es Mucho Grande
El Somnambulo wants a new nick name. Add your suggestions to this thread and I shall post a poll mañana, so that we may annoint him a new alias. Muchas Gracias.
Pulling a Norm Coleman
Back in the early 2000s, there was this dick of a senator from Pennsylvania named Rick Santorum. He was such a schmutz that words like dick , schmutz, asshole, etc. could not encompasses his Santorumness. This lead sex-columunist Dan Savage to start a contest to define what santorum means. Go to the Wikipedia article to […]
Gay Thought of the Day
Studies show that angry male homophobes probably have deeply hidden homosexual urges. So next time you get in a argument with a Radical Right man who is hung up on “the gays”, have pity on the poor soul as he probably hasn’t really accepted his true sexuality.
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