This shit is what passes as rational discourse. A Romney takeover of the White House might well rival Andrew Johnson’s ascendancy to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Let’s dispense with something right now. I am not asserting that, in the unlikely event President Obama loses, the result could be chalked up to […]

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Obama supporters in reaction to Obama policies attributed to Mitt Romney. Team players. For the fucking loss. People don’t care about what policies are enacted, or how horrible they might be; they only care about who is in charge when these policies are enacted.

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Why is this not considered some form of child abuse? Indoctrinating 9 year olds with this kind of shit is what breeds hatred and continued ignorance, not some form of political insight. This kind of political education closes the doors to rational discourse. Fuck this kid’s dad with a porcupine. Of course, who can blame […]

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Risk assessment, how the fuck does it work? More than 100 business owners jammed into a standing-room-only meeting Thursday afternoon in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn to hear New York City officials describe the relief assistance available to entrepreneurs who saw their restaurants, stores, warehouses and other businesses devastated this week by Sandy’s flooding. […]

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So much for unions being all about saving the middle class. New Jersey 101.5: Utility workers from Alabama, touted by Governor Christie as coming a great distance to help restore power, were reportedly turned away from New Jersey because they did not belong to a union. So we have millions of people without power, and […]

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Can someone explain to me why we need teachers who have unions that insist the only way to teach children is by spending ever increasing amounts of money (despite our currently spending more money per student than ever before)? Dvice: What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who […]

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Ask questions later. Statesman.com: A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter and killed two illegal immigrants during a chase through the desert was trying to disable the vehicle and suspected it was being used to smuggle drugs, authorities said Friday. The disclosure came a day after the incident that […]

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Though in my experience, most of those who self-describe as a progressive are little more than hacks who want to empower politicians to force their own sense of social and economic morality on others, it does seem that the few truly principled progressives, though many of their remedies to social ills may be antithetical to […]

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Can we please move the deer crossings? When people actually believe that government can control the movement of animals that have been making these movements for millennia, we need to re-evaluate our expectations of what government is capable of. This is more than simply a case of an incredibly stupid woman (although this woman is […]

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According to the Obama administration, the sins of the father can be paid for by the son (even after the father had already paid for said sins). Obama mouthpiece Gibbs in response to a question concerning killing an American (born) citizen who is a minor: I would suggest that you should have a far more […]

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