davidl on April 8th, 2009

Purple ThumbStick a thumb in it,  Stink Progress:

President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world has been a welcome development after eight years of President Bush’s “us vs. them” approach. “Let me say this as clearly as I can,” he

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davidl on April 6th, 2009

Bit I’ve always told you that Trya Banks was just Miss Andrea Sullivan in drag.    Anyhow,  Ms Banks seem powerfully interested in Bristol Palin’s sex life.

Levi Johnston not only says he practiced safe sex “most of the time”

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Eric Florack on April 3rd, 2009

Lots of chatter, just now as regards their state supreme court’s ruling on marriage. (PDF)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling Friday finding that the state’s same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights

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davidl on April 3rd, 2009

Mrs. Willliam ClintonAnd some think Mrs. Clinton is smart.   Mrs. Cinton wants to reach out to the moderate Taleban.   I say there are no moderate Taleban, except in Mrs. Clinton’s fervid imagination:

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2009

I’d like you to look closely at S277.

What we have here, is a bill mandating that you ‘volunteer’.

First off, the idea of mandatory national service is a direct violation of the 13th amendment. I find it interesting

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davidl on March 30th, 2009

‘When we consider changing military policy, the should ask is “Will it help  win war?”   If the answer is “no” or even “we don’t know,’  then we should not make such change.

Thomas H. Moorer, Admiral, USN(retired)

Matthew Yglesias has

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davidl on March 29th, 2009

Now this is why Kate, Small Dead Animlas, is my favorite north of the border blogger.   Sorry Kathy.

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2009

Ann Althouse says it well:

“If you read his opinion [in Lawrence v. Texas], he thinks it’s a good idea for two consenting adults who happen to be gay to be locked up because he is so disapproving of

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Eric Florack on March 17th, 2009

With a nod to WPGB’s Jim Quinn, I want to call to your attention, this monring to an article that appeared in National Review, yesterday, by  Hans A. von Spakovsky, called A Leadership of Cowards?”

Here’s a bit

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davidl on March 17th, 2009

Michael A. Lindenberger, Time, argues:

[T]he best way out of the intractable legal wars over gay[sic] marriage is to take marriage out of the hands of the government altogether

Best for whom?   There is no need to treat same

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2009

The New York Post, last night, put up some interesting analysis as regards what is behind this business between the President and the British. In it, Arthur Herman does some serious analysis on what is driving this animosity toward

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Eric Florack on March 4th, 2009

Me to John Hawkins, just now:

 

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Magnus Anderson makes an excellent point.

Maybe we are challenged both by a general trend of “modern” relativistic thinking, which we havn’t been anaware as we should as well as a slippery slope

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davidl on March 2nd, 2009

Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times, says “On race, blacks are cowards too:”

On matters of race, most blacks run away from introspection, and we do not like to hear others publicly remind us of our responsibilities to

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davidl on February 28th, 2009

Eric Holder, the reprobate who thinks he is Attorney General, has called his country “a nation of cowards.”   Lisa Fristch, National Center for Public Policy Research,, thinks that Holder darn well knows what a coward look likes, as he

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Eric Florack on February 26th, 2009

James Joyner points to an article at Next Right I noticed last night.

Patrick Ruffini decries the “Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP.”

If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is,

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