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Category Archives: politics
Guilt by Association?
TPMMuckraker sinks into the well, muck, with this story headlined “Man Charged With Stockpiling Weapons Was Tea Partier, Palin Fan”: The Massachusetts man charged this week with stockpiling weapons after saying he feared an imminent “Armageddon” appears to have been … Continue reading
2012: One “Frontrunner”, Lame
Here’s the new Esquire interview with Creationist Tim Pawlenty, one of the GOP frontrunners (allegedly) for 2012. Nothing on where he stands on evolution, but the governor’s views (such as one can make them out amid the waffle) on the … Continue reading
Rand Paul
A moderately sympathetic story about Rand Paul, who is running as the anti-establishment candidate in Kentucky. My bias, such that I have, is to look positively upon Paul’s run for Senate, mostly because I know that when I agree with … Continue reading
Still Not Getting It
You would think that at times like these, a senior Republican would have the political savvy (not to speak of the decency) not to have done something like this: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on … Continue reading
Head of St. John Chrysostom to visit NYC
The great thing about being in New York City is that if you wait long enough, every celebrity will come visit, even in this case one who’s been dead for 1,603 years. From the website of the Russian Orthodox Church … Continue reading
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Cuts for thee, not me
Is there any chance that Republicans will actually try to cooperate with the President in making the requisite hard budget cuts, or will they grandstand on his every proposal, along the previous lines of “he wants to kick Grandma off … Continue reading
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Equal opportunity exploitation
It’s nice to know that in their drive to soak the rich, our political representatives don’t neglect to soak the poor (and stupid) as well: [New York] Gov. David A. Paterson announced Friday that he had selected a casino operator … Continue reading
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Environmentalism coopts everything
In the message broadcast on Friday, Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was … Continue reading
Fathers and the fertility revolution
I consider here whether there are any arguments left that one might make regarding absent fathers’ obligation to their biological children once the fertility revolution that enables gay procreation is moved to the center of the marriage institution. I am … Continue reading
Have the terrorists won?
No wonder AG Holder caved in to pressure and moved the KSM trial. Here are the security measures that New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had announced for the trial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars: inner … Continue reading