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Will Republicans Lose The Presidential Election Through Overreach?

I’ve been suspecting that Obama will lose the 2012 election. Presidential elections seem determined, more than anything, by the state of the economy; if people’s incomes aren’t growing in the months before the election, the incumbent loses. There’s a certain … Continue reading

My God-Given Right To Be An Atheist

From Jonathan Tweet (click through to read the whole thing): Certain religious sayings make more sense when you insert the word “nothing” in place of the word “God.” “When you die, you become one with God.” “They’re in God’s hands … Continue reading

Open Thread and Link Farm: Your Heart Is Thrashing Like That All The Time Edition

Y’all remember how this works, right? Man Dies Of Toothache. “A no-longer-living, no-longer-breathing example of the ‘push the patient to the edge of financial desperation’ theory of health care cost controls. It turns out that the quality of a frightened, … Continue reading

Happy Labor Day

Via Unequally Yoked.

(Why yes, that is Batman.)

We Should Have The Right To Record On-Duty Police

It’s not often I agree with Glenn Reynolds, but his editorial about the recent trend of police harassing and arresting citizens for recording the police as they publicly perform their duties is spot-on. The most outrageous example may be Tiawanda … Continue reading

Movies should show that good people can still be bigots

Patricia Turner considers the depictions of white characters in The Help: With one possible exception, the white women are remarkably unlikable, and not just because of their racism. Like the housewives portrayed in reality television shows, the housewives of Jackson … Continue reading

Does Welfare Drug Testing Really Lose Money?

I think a drug testing requirement is a bad idea, because the lives of drug users are not less valuable than the lives of other people. Another argument is that testing welfare applicants for drugs will cost more than it … Continue reading

Political cartoon: How Democracy Works

Script for this comic SelectShow The cartoon has three panels. Each panel shows a crowd of milling citizens, who vary in sex, race, and age, yelling up to a giant white man wearing a suit and tie. The giant’s head … Continue reading

The single stupidist thing any Nice Guy (TM) has ever written

Joe Tom Collins writes: When the Feminists came for the Rapists, I remained silent; I was not a Rapist. When they locked up the stalkers, I remained silent; I was not a stalker. When they came for the Players, I … Continue reading

Leave it to the voters to decide who is a viable candidate: On the media’s non-coverage of Ron Paul

Kevin Drum and Jonathan Bernstein say essentially the same thing regarding the press deciding not to cover Ron Paul’s campaign, which I’d sum up as: It’s obvious Paul has no chance of being the next President, so the press is … Continue reading