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@Corso going to follow Amp's lead and ignore the attack. But this: Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Michigan’s…
I know I said I'd take a step back, and I fully intended to, and I think I'll just not…
Dianne: "Whereas RFK spending an undisclosed amount of taxpayers’ money to make a video of himself shirtless with Kid Rock…
Remember that the people you’re accusing of sexism were willing to cast Democrat votes, you aren’t talking about hardcore Republicans.…
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Category Archives: Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc.
The Democrats Are Now The Home Of Market-Based Solutions
(Crossposted on “Alas” and on “TADA.”) In an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins (of MIT and Harvard, respectively) lament the Republican Party’s newfound opposition to market-based environmental solutions. LAST WEEK, the Senate abandoned its latest … Continue reading
The Cornerstone
For all our nation’s many faults, there is one thing that our country got inarguably right, and that is freedom of religion. From the founding of the republic, religious tests for office have been banned, religious freedoms supported. The right … Continue reading
Another right-wing remix: "The 24 Types of Progressive"
“I’m waiting for the 24 types of ‘progressive’.” –“George,” in comments here. Robert Hayes, who has commented on “Alas” on one or two occasions, jumps into what I dearly hope will become a trend by putting up his rewritten version … Continue reading
Minimum Wage! Hiyah!
I never knew that the way to get rich in America was to become a waiter. I mean, sure, I suspected; waiters are always driving those sweet ’99 Hyundais, rolling with fat stacks of Washingtons, and spending holidays at their … Continue reading
Cartoon: The 24 Types of Libertarian
Click on the cartoon to see it bigger. (Much more legible that way.) Script: TITLE: The 24 Types of Libertarian Balding white guy: no fair oversimplifying our simplistic philosophy! Caption: NAIVE Happy guy with goatee: if the government would DISAPPEAR, … Continue reading
I Can No Longer Sit Back and Allow Communist Infiltration, Communist Indoctrination, Communist Subversion and the International Communist Conspiracy to Sap and Impurify All of Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Boy, the GOP seems to have picked a real winner in Nevada: At first, [Nevada State Sen. Sharon] Angle appeared to be a conservative beamed to us straight from 1932. She’s come out against the repeal of Prohibition (which she … Continue reading
Cutting Government Spending Is Tyranny!
The Economist polled Americans about the deficit, government spending, and the like. Overwhelmingly, Americans prefer cutting government spending in order to balance the deficit (62%), compared to only 5% for raising taxes and 24% who favored doing both. But there’s … Continue reading
Salvation Army attacks sex-positive activist through its human trafficking email list
Sometimes people try to tell me that no one has a problem with S&M; that all stigma against S&M is in our heads and that if we BDSMers would just get over our victim complex, we’d discover that society has … Continue reading
David Frum on Waterloo: Conservative leaders "led us to abject and irreversible defeat."
Conservative David Frum on the (apparent) passage of health care reform: At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal … Continue reading
Would a historically Democratic voter be so turned off by the candidate being a woman that they would either vote…