Obama Backs Off Proposal For Creating Lawful Procedures For Preventive Detention

September 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

During his May speech on civil liberties at the National Archives in May Obama argued for the idea of creating a legal mechanism for indefinitely detaining people without charges.  He said at the time: I know that creating such a system poses unique challenges. . . . But I want to be very clear that our goal [...]

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Anti-Arab Sentiment Feeds Anti-Obama Sentiment In Israel Too

September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A dispiriting video: Your Thoughts?

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Coates On How Obama Drives The Racists Nuts

September 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s no mistake that O’Reilly and Sharpton would break bread together at Sylvia’s–they feed each other. But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance.He tells kids to study–and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness–and they go hysterical. He takes his wife [...]

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Daily Hilarity: Kanye Interrupts Obama

September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Perfect connection to make and done hilariously: Your Thoughts?

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A Little Nietzsche For Kanye

September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

One last Kanye thought for the morning, before I return to my work for the day.  From Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra part II, section 3, comes his prescription in a nutshell for how to be a Beyonce or a Barack rather than a Kanye or a Wilson: if we learn better to experience joy, we [...]

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Kanye Disses Taylor Swift (On The Pusillanimity Of Joe Wilson And Kanye West Vs. The Magnanimity Of Beyonce Knowles And Barack Obama)

September 13, 2009 By 21 Comments

So last night, Kanye proved once and for all that he has no class through a single action which demonstrated an unbelievable lack of grace.  Taylor Swift looked so demoralized and her speech had been all about feelings of being surprised to be accepted by this particular voting bloc, when he insulted her by implying [...]

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Alan Colmes Vs. Homophobic Pastor Steven Anderson

August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In four crazy parts that Anderson put up online himself afterwards.  It’s a wild listen. Part 1: Anderson makes clear that the Bible calls for hate and so that’s why he hates.  He makes clear that he thinks he believes every gay person in the world is a predator and every homosexual he has known [...]

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Judge This: Are The Guns At The Protests And Town Halls A Form Of Terrorism?

August 22, 2009 By 3 Comments

David Sirota makes the case: In early August, a protester came to a raucous Tennessee congressional forum packing heat. Days later, President Obama’s healthcare event in New Hampshire was marred by a protester posing for cameras with a pistol and sign reading, “It is time to water the tree of liberty” — a reference to [...]

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In Further Defense Of They

August 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Evangelos points us to this solid piece by Geoffrey Pullum who last week defended Obama’s choice to use “they” in a sentence about “somebody:” Strunk and White baldly assert that this is an error. They simply say don’t use they with syntactically singular antecedents like somebody. They don’t give a reason; and it is pretty [...]

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Where Is Jesus’ Birth Certificate?

August 2, 2009 By 6 Comments

Truelogic, enlightened by the Birthers’ groundbreaking methodology for revealing birthplace conspiracies discovers that Obama is not the only one whose alleged birth circumstances are extremely dubious: I did a little research on the Birthers’ claims and investigative methods and was very impressed with what I found–so impressed, I decided to test those methods out myself.The [...]

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