I’ve never been one to put Obama or his policies in the same “socialist” camp that the Becks and Limbaughs of the world have (though said policies certainly do lean socialist in nature), but it’s becoming increasingly hard to argue that those who most fervently support his agenda in Washington are not only socialists, but […]
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In the midst of a fine argument against government intervention in press activities, particularly against government subsidies for the press which is supposed to be free and unbiased, L. Brent Bozell III and Dan Gainor, via The American Spectator, miss their left at Albuquerque, and roll straight into typical conservative bullshit land: In furtherance of […]
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I’m having a really fucking hard time imagining why the federal government should have any fucking role whatsoever in deciding what we the people should and should not eat. Especially considering that the means for deciding who is and is not obese is deeply flawed. The issue of obesity in society is no longer about […]
Ain’t government grand? Los Times de Nueva York: From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even […]
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It must be nice to be able to grade yourself and pass with flying colors despite reality. The Washington Post: The report, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post, is one in a series of assessments prepared by Vice President Biden, who was charged with overseeing implementation of the stimulus money, the […]
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Prominent academic and literary theorist Stanley Fish offers his insight on the “Tea Party Problem”, yet from a different angle than the rest of the national chatocracy: that the ways in which the terminally libertarded attack the Tea Party, that it’s little more than a movement of the stupid, is unproductive, making the Tea Party […]
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Fear not progressives: Obama is that condescending to everyone. In the view of the ruling class, you too are the little people, not one of the Best and Brightest™. You can only hinder their progress towards even greater power.
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Reuters: Tens of thousands of people marched through Brussels on Wednesday on a day of protests across Europe against government austerity measures, which unions say will slow economic recovery and punish the poor. Wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! The government is going to stop giving us money that isn’t ours and that we didn’t earn. Rich people and corporations […]
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What was it I heard about the abuse of federal power with eavesdropping and such from the terminally libertarded before Obama started doing it? Many of the comments in the Times article are in support of this action as being necessary for whatever-the-fuck reason, but I ask only this question to those of you who […]
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Can we quit with the whole fucking “Bush deregulated and cut spending on education” bullshit? Reason’s Hit and Run: Between 2001 and 2009 George W. Bush did not “cut back on investments in education,” he increased them by 58 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars. Regulations? “The Bush team has spent more taxpayer money on issuing and […]
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