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5 January 2012
Even if one accepts that Ron Paul is a racist looney and that Randian ideology is a form of toxic mind cancer, we’re still left with a Democratic Party hopelessly addicted to war finance and that thinks nothing of killing dozens of children from flying robots, refusing to answer questions about those deaths because they’re “secret”, starting wars without congressional approval, indefinitely detaining people without recourse to the courts, murdering and torturing people including American citizens without a shred of due process, blanket surveillance without warrants, incredibly harsh penalties for drug possession, use and sale, and so on.
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8:42
I’m torn by Ron Paul, if you aren’t. I’m torn before I’ve even read Greenwald’s piece, because I came to the same sad conclusion independently. Ron Paul is closer to my position on VERY GRAVE matters of civil liberties than anybody else on the right or left. The fact that he is part of a kook movement that opposes public roads is not so much a deterrent to Paul as a horrible, horrible indictment of the Democratic Party, that we have to look to the KOOKS of the Republican Party for somebody who is morally decent. The simple fact of the necessity of this contrast is a scathing indictment of where we are and where the Democratic Party has gone.
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4 January 2012
Saying someone concerned about Obama’s destruction of civil liberties has a monomania is sort of like saying a homeless person has a monomania about not having food, clothing and shelter.
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21 December 2011
Fixing it in conference and other lies
I don’t know what these Senators know that we don’t know, but I find it hard to believe that they’d put their names to this if they thought that Keystone was really dead. It’s possible they are just being good partisans and are using their oily credibility to get the payroll tax cut extension. But it would be highly unusual. There’s something odd going on there.
Ya think? I can’t believe Digby would take Obama and his State Department at their word that the shortened review period was a guaranteed rejection for Keystone XL. There is no threat that this president will not back down from. Everything is a feint.
Republicans figured this out a long time ago; you can tell by the way they call every single one of his bluffs. But in this case they may have overplayed their hand, as no one can see the Senate reconvening at this point. Chaos is a more powerful force than the manifest depravity of “both sides”.
Let it be an interesting January.
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14 December 2011
I think the term ‘illegals’ is very specific to Latinos and therefore carries with it an obvious aspect of ethnic bigotry. (I can’t imagine anyone referring to a European who overstayed a visa as an ‘illegal’ can you?)
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9 December 2011
Spending less on fake Democrats
What a shocking calculation. (And here the article talks about “the math” like it’s some kind of complicated algorithm.)
This is as it should be. There is a certain amount of money to be spent. Why should liberal groups be forced to spend it on people who have gone out of their way to thwart their agenda. I think all of those people should go to the conservatives who benefit from their votes and ask them for the money.
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7 December 2011
Nevertheless, even though some aspects of the freedom to assemble are less restricted in Brunei than in Wisconsin, the State Department’s 2010 Human Rights Report criticizes the Sultanate for its polices…
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6 December 2011
He was caught in a ‘driver’s license’ checkpoint, which is new to me. Evidently, they are just stopping everybody and demanding their papers now.
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3 December 2011
I honestly don’t know what’s worse —- legalizing immoral wars or running them covertly.
