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Pick up a copy next time you’re in DC

le saint — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:18 +0000

Drawing comparisons to today should be engaging and fun!

The techniques of Soviet propaganda. (Open Library).

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John Conyers won’t read 700 pages of proposed law but sure as hell has read 700 pages of imaginary atrocities committed by Karl Rove against federal prosecutors.

le saint — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:17:36 +0000

Hard to imagine that somebody like former President Bush’s Chief of Staff or something would have been involved with an important decision by the man he’s . . .umm. . . .advising.

Better go home, Mr. Conyers, and spend quality time with your wife before she goes to prison.

Conyers on the effort required to read all them damn bills.

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Madam Secretary chooses the orange pantsuit to declare US intentions in Asia

le saint — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:40:40 +0000

It’s the details that count.

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It’s OK–My husband’s a Democrat Congressman

le saint — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:53:33 +0000

Of course her esteemed husband had NO inkling any of this was going on behind his back.

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Iranian rumor of the day: Long-silent Mookie al Sadr in line for BIG promotion in Tehran

le saint — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:30:39 +0000

‘Bout time we dictated the g*damn situation over there.

With a coveted seat on the Guardian Council, al Sadr would undoubtedly speak for millions of disaffected Iranian Gen Y’ers.

Oh yeah, this is a completely unfounded rumor.

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Honor killing: Sows and piglets bludgeoned with iron bars so that male pigs may die honorably with a slit throat.

le saint — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:56:13 +0000

Or, at least that’s how I read it:

Only the males are killed in accordance with the rules,” said journalist Heba Nasreddin, while “the piglets and sows are hit with an iron bar and left to bleed to death.”

Weird, how different religions approach killin’ stuff.

Oh yeah, this is about that swine flu thing from like three weeks ago.

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Will Prop8ers back Utahans’ quest for alternative marriage?

le saint — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:33:27 +0000

At present, there’s little evidence, at least until polygamists get the right PR people or a sympathetic Hollywood producer. My guess is they will probably come up with a reason-no matter how narrow or contrived–to justify non-support.

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Myth of the Day: Obama “Taking on teachers union”

le saint — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:51:37 +0000

Let the history be written to show the One is a fair and just leader!

Ok, sorry. . .

Despite nearly a dozen headlines proclaiming so, does any oxygen-rich thinker really think Obama’s truly sticking it to teachers’ unions by backing measures that have a significant amount of support within the union itself?

If he really wanted to make the teachers’ unions sweat, he’d embrace their Public Enemy Number One–widespread adoption of revenue-grabbing school vouchers. But he’s not. He’s just writing legend with some token resistance to their status quo.

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Embryonic water celling

le saint — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:56:49 +0000

Rhetorical arguments that used to justify enhanced interrogation techniques in the War on Terror are now being employed in the debate over embryonic stem cell research, a promising if yet unproven field.

But they’re not coming from the right. They’re coming from the left. Proponents of embryo research are insisting that because we’re in a life-and-death struggle—in this case, a scientific struggle—anyone who impedes that struggle by renouncing effective tools is irrational and irresponsible. The war on disease is like the war on terror: Either you’re with science, or you’re against it.

We mused back then how an individual could simultaneously be repulsed by non-lethal interrogation techniques while supporting the intentional destruction of life. Both could potentially save lives. But only one already has–and it didn’t kill anything in the process.

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All things considered, radical Islam isn’t such a baaad thing, is it?

le saint — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:06:42 +0000

Fareed Zakaria really earning his reputation:

Wherever it is tried—in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in parts of Nigeria and Pakistan—people weary of its [radical Islam] charms very quickly. The truth is that all Islamists, violent or not, lack answers to the problems of the modern world. They do not have a world view that can satisfy the aspirations of modern men and women. We do. That’s the most powerful weapon of all.

So head-to-head with western values, they cannot win. Brilliant analysis, Newseek! We’re all saved! Well, all of us except the poor Sri Lankan cricket team visiting Pawk-i-stan yesterday.

People have been getting so weary of radical islam’s charms. . . they’ve been unable to shake free from its yoke for more than a thousand years. Even with the unpleasant headchopping, stoning, and honor murders! I can almost see a Sharia-bound Zakaria fomenting dissent and organizing rebellion among subjugated Muslims “weary” of the tired and inffective doctrine of strict Sharia governance.

This kind of radicalism prevents the repressed from resisting on their own accord, and I believe history shows that the only force capable of protecting the human rights of people captive to medieval, radical Islamism is external antagonism.

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