Ever since the Republican election victories in November when people who ran as fiscal conservatives burning to save the American economy turned out to be social conservatives whose real top priority has to do with burning all right, but actually is that gay people should all die in a fire, I have been perplexed about …
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10 more reasons for a truce on social issues so we can handle the fiscal ones
Dear Little Miss Attila links a post with 10 charts showing why DOOM for the U.S. economy is upon us RIGHT NOW. While there are social conservatives who claim they can handle social and fiscal policies at the same time, so far it looks to me like doing the hard work of administering the remedies …
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New troll policy courtesy of The Bloggess
I am instituting a new troll policy, which is inspired by my dear friend Jennifer Lawson, The Bloggess: … sadly, there are always assholes in the world. In fact, some of them have computers and use them to troll the Internet and viciously attack people they’ve never even met. When I first started blogging, I …
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Why victory in 2012 requires a truce on social issues
Jay Cost at The Weekly Standard uses the election of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan to explain why the presidential election in 2012 is a once-in-many-generations contest that Republicans are unlikely to win if social issues continue to trump fiscal ones and prevent the creation of a coalition that will beat Obama: As we …
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Cleta Mitchell tells Samantha Bee how to use a 527 to go negative
The Daily Show – So You Want to Bee a…? – 527 Organization Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I came across this video when I was Googling to learn more about her and it won’t play from Comedy Central’s site so I’m embedding it here to see …
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Andrew Breitbart is NOT gay
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Although, for the dear innocent and guileless straight people who are asserting that you can tell our beloved Andrew is straight because he is married and has four children, claims like that just make gays and lesbians helpless with mirth. Really. That is ROFLOL, pants-wettingly funny. That’s because …
Ann Coulter receives proposal of marriage at CPAC 2011
Gay marriage — creating families and making the family stronger, one happy couple at a time.
Thank you, Mr. Cheney
Yesterday afternoon I was coming into the hotel in D.C. where CPAC is being held from its back entrance and as the elevator door opened an official-looking man with an earpiece darted into the elevator to shoo me out on the double, so I knew to scan the crowd for a dignitary. The next tip-off …
Epidemic of high blood pressure, depression and anxiety among the elderly
Today I took my father, who is 94, to a routine appointment with his geriatrician, which always begins with the physician assistant, Debbie, taking a history and his vital signs. She pronounced my father’s blood pressure “perfect” at 106/60. Then she said she was especially glad to see this because over the last six months …
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Why Shakey Pete is not a Randian conservative
I am plotting the demise of Randian conservatism — for real — so I am relieved to learn that dear Shakey Pete rejects it also (boldfacing mine): I would have been more into the Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged crowd if it had not been for Eddie Willers. Remember Eddie? He was the main assistant to Dagny …
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