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Let me first say that I applaud Mr. Assange, the founder of wikileaks, for the information that he has seen fit to provide the world concerning the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a libertarian who doesn’t believe in the rightness our recent International Adventurism, I’m very glad to have access to the raw information […]
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I guess, though, that we should have expected this kind of shit from a douche-nugget like Moore: (I do think that an NPR journalist who accepts money from Fox News for his work a regular commentator should be a firing offense, but that’s another story.) [. . .] P.P.S. Here’s something else that I’d sincerely […]
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Apparently, Steve Pearlman of The Washington Post thinks that the reason people are leaning Republican this election has nothing to do with really shitty policy and strict party line votes on highly unpopular bills in defiance of the will of the people, but because we’re too stupid to resist our feelings. As for the details […]
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Salon addressing a letter from a concerned mother of two “adolescents” who won’t help out around the house: Your [20 and 21 year old] son and daughter are barely still adolescents. They are very close to adulthood. Still adolescents? Close to adulthood? What the fuck? When the political establishment and their lackeys endorse the idea […]
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Color me shocked. Shocked, I say! WaPo: Ekins’s conclusion is not that the racially charged messages are unimportant but that media coverage of tea party rallies over the past year have focused so heavily on the more controversial signs that it has contributed to the perception that such content dominates the tea party movement more […]
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2010-10-04 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Dumbassery + Journalism + Regulation
Typical
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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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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The American Spectator on polling Obamacare popularity: ObamaCare booster Jonathan Cohn [. . .] notes that “While 40 percent of respondents said they supported repealing the Affordable Care Act, more than half changed their minds (leaving just 19 percent in favor of repeal) when pollsters mentioned that it’d mean letting insurance companies exclude people with […]
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2010-09-15 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Dumbassery + election + Journalism
Praytell
John Gruber of Daring Fireball: Anti-Masturbation Candidate Wins Republican Senate Primary in Delaware “The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can’t masturbate without lust!” You can’t make this shit up. Praytell, John; is a candidate who’s neutral on masturbation better able to govern? Or does one need be pro-masturbation? Because, […]
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2010-09-05 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Dumbassery + Journalism
Hyperbole, Anyone?
The Times: But Ms. O’Donnell has the backing of the Tea Party, and suddenly Delaware has become the latest Republican civil war battlefield.
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