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Sigh

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on April 24, 2009 | Comments Off

Here’s somethin’ stupid for your Friday: NIMBYism Takes Front Stage at Holder Hearing: The D.C. Examiner reports of a hearing on the Hill yesterday where Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) told Attorney General Eric Holder in no uncertain terms that he opposes a plan floated by the Obama administration to move some Guantanamo detainees to a [...]

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Dude, you live in America

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on December 16, 2008 | Comments Off

GAH!  Why oh why can’t we have better civics classes?  Or, like, any civics classes?  Especially for those who opine about civics.  I apologize in advance:  This sort of thing gets me so incensed that I can’t argue, I can only rant. We have multiple points of failure for legislation in order to provide opportunities [...]

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Dept of Catching Up: relativism

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on July 19, 2008 | Comments Off

Interesting post. The reaction I always have to this argument about Jefferson is this: I don’t really disagree. He was unable to live up to his own ideals for basically selfish reasons. He did some bad stuff and made some pretty big honkin’ mistakes. But I want to extend things just a bit further: that [...]

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Can’t wait

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on July 14, 2008 | Comments Off

Good gravy, I can’t wait till these people are out of power.  They are giving the Dark Side a bad name!!! That is all. Love, Lord Vader

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Take the light saber, leave the cannoli

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2008 | Comments Off

Best simile and metaphor I’ve heard in a long time. Iglesias … suggested it might be possible to go after the Justice Department … by “using the model we used against the Mob in the 60’s. You find a small fish, you threaten prosecution, you roll them, they give up the bigger fish.”“It’s fascinating to [...]

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Terrifying

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on June 17, 2008 | Comments Off

If John Yoo weren’t so terrifying, he’d be hilarious.

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Dept of Kids Today

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 16, 2008 | Comments Off

It is like that FOR. A. REASON. people. For Pete’s sake. Via. Now, the political structure of this country is not particularly favorable to urban areas. There are plenty of ways (the Senate, and relatedly the Electoral College) that rural areas receive disproportionate political power.

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What he said

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on November 10, 2007 | Comments Off

On Bill Moyers’ Journal this week, he ended his opening commentary with this:  “Perhaps the real birth pangs of democracy are here, among the lawyers, judges, and students risking everything for their constitution.” Lawyers protesting abuse of their nation’s constitution.  (OK, total abrogation.)  Wow.  I am saddened by how complacent we have become.

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Kids today

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on November 7, 2007 | Comments Off

MY complains about the Constitution.  Again. What bothers me about this is that, while it is indeed difficult to amend the Constitution, in the minds of most Americans this is what keeps it sound.  People understand that its ambiguous language is ambiguous for a reason – the document should be able to grow and change [...]

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Dag-nabbit

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , , , on September 12, 2005 | Comments Off

UPDATE: OK, so I was feeling a little stressed out last evening. A nice, long walk in the rich people’s neighborhood fixed that. Apologies to all bloggers mentioned below. I love you guys, I really do. — Would all those young liberal bloggers I often spend time reading on the way home from work, PLEASE [...]

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