Incumbents are displeased at the “barrage” of negative ads at the hands of “outside groups.” Los Tiempos de Nueva York: An expansive onslaught of negative political advertisements in Congressional races has left many incumbents, including some Republicans long opposed to restrictions on campaign spending, concluding that legislative measures may be in order to curtail the […]

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Admitted and documented pot smoker named fittest man of all time.

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TSA douche, Robin Kane: It’s a really, really small amount [of radiation exposure] relative to the security benefit you’re going to get. Uhhh . . . Any exposure to radiation in exchange for TSA-style security is TOO FUCKING MUCH. Eat a bag of dicks, Robin Kane.

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The Seattle Times on the administration’s initial response to embassy attacks in Libya: Extremists from groups linked to al-Qaida struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack,” the top U.S. intelligence agency said Friday, as it took responsibility for the Obama administration’s initial claims the assault grew from a […]

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Ken at Popehat on The War on Terror: But this episode says something about far more than Bob. It says something very fundamental about the War on Terror. It says this: if we let it, the government will define the War on Terror however it wants. The United States government, under two opposed increasingly indistinguishable political […]

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CBS on the Obama administration’s insistence on trying jedi mind tricks in regards to the various embassy attacks on 9/11 and after: The Washington Post on Thursday published a timeline of the White House responses over the last two weeks, from the initial claims that the attacks were the result of protests over the anti-Muslim […]

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The Atlantic on the Obama administration and his media lackies torturing language in order to form the narrative that drone strikes are “surgical”: The Obama Administration deliberately uses the word “surgical” to describe its drone strikes. Official White House spokesman Jay Carney marshaled the medical metaphor here, saying that “a hallmark of our counterterrorism efforts […]

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Behold! The most transparent administration ever! On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to “usher in a new era of open government” and “act promptly” to make information public. As Obama nears the end of his term, his administration hasn’t met those goals, failing to follow the requirements of […]

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It seems to me that most people undervalue their right to free speech and overvalue the babbling of authoritarian law professors. The idea of curbing our free speech to quell radicals half way around the world is repulsive and offensive. Fuck off, Eric Posner.

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Truth.

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