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Burking* The Right - At Long Last!
Edmund Burke T-Shirt by webcarveSee other Liberty T-Shirts Yesterday, the blog/twittersphere went nuts when Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs officially kicked the Right Wing in their collective teabags.LGF, if you might remember, used to co...
The Junior Senator from the Trick or Treat State.
John Ensign is apparently only capable of speaking the truth when he thinks he's lying for effect. John Ensign Scandal: Senate Republicans Decline To Defend Colleague: "'I have a little alert to tell Washington,' Ensign said during the televised hear...
John Batchelor: Sane Conservative on Radio?
There may be a sane conservative speaking on radio! He has a well-attended blog at The Daily Beast. Here's the quote that captured my attention.If the Republican Party existed except as a club of groupies and roadies for the rabble-rousers on radio a...
Free Speech and it's consequences.
Of late, I've been noting the bury brigades over on digg and the #tcot twits twittering; in those abrupt contexts, a rather pervasive misunderstanding of the First Amendment is often painfully illustrated.The view is that a person has the right to sa...
Your silence is deafening, Mr. Hannity...
I'd Rather Be Waterboarding... T-Shirt by webcarveHannity demonstrates a usage of the term "troll" I had previously been unaware of. (Credit to asgardshill on this digg thread)Think Progress » Eight days of silence since Hannity volunteered to be wa...
Astroturfing Zazzle - Graphic evidence of Faux Populism
The Sum Of Their Fears by graphictruthAs you may gather from reading this, my post took a sharp turn midway through, when I went looking for graphics to illustrate what I was going to say. I'll let it stand as it is, because I think the deadly seriou...
Replace Rush with Meghan McCain and you got yourself a party.
You know, the word "Party" has an obvious connotation; hanging out with people you would actually want to hang out with, possibly with some subset of "fun" involved. I would not mind running into Meghan at a party. She's witty and looks like she'd k...
The National Rebuke
Darth Seditious T-Shirt by webcarveRush Limbaugh demands to be the tar-soaked "anchor baby" of the Republican base. It's initially surprising how quickly this has become an issue - until you think about it. Because the only way to deal with this eff...
Your Neoconservatives At Work: Heartless and yet, completely useless.
Well, that's your problem right there:Tuesday, February 24, 2009More Health Care Myths [Mark Hemingway]Why do Democrats push preventative health care as a cost savings measure at every turn? If you want to save the healthcare system money, drop dea...
Graphictruth makes the front page of Forbes.com
There it is, at the bottom, with it's Graphictruth style titling, my post about the significance of The Pickens Plan and the economic foolishness of staying wedded to a petroleum economy.This isn't actually the first time Forbe's scrapers have found ...
On the Conservation of Common Sense
"When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever ...
Well, that settles it, then!
The Best Arguement against Democra... - Customized by webcarveT shirts from Zazzle.comIt's official. US Conservatives have lost all touch with reality. Why? Well, according to "Mainstream Conservative," a Rasumssun POLL clearly establishes that clima...
In Which Jon Swift Reminds Us How Good The Trolls Used Be.
I have a habit when it comes to the posts of Jon Swift. I save them, to savor slowly, quietly nodding and occasionally laughing out loud. So when I saw this headline appear on my sidebar, I chuckled and sat back - unlike most people.For the record, I...
The Palin Defect - I mean, the Palin Defections
And another one leaves the bus:Prof. Charles Fried, McCain advisor, defects to Obama - News: "Professor Charles Fried, an advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign, has announced that he can no longer support the McCain/Palin ticket, and has as...
Obama for the cause of Law and Order
Auburn McCanta: Arizona Officer Supports Obama for the cause of Law and Order:"We don't discuss politics at work," Lt. Cable explains. "It's paramount for police officers to maintain an aura of neutrality, which means discussions of politics are off-...
"Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship."
Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama - The Daily BeastThe son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat. Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good ...
