And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...

• Gingrich Strikes Again

  I now know someone who is being swindled by Newt Gingrich's American Business Defense and Advisory Council malarky.  He even bragged about how he'd be getting a replica of Newt's gavel.  I honestly wanted to tell him what a scam it was, and how they'll offer it to anyone who's' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:59am EST
  

• Party Like It's 1994

  Via Atrios, we get more clueless political commentary, this time from CQ Politics:
  
  A lack of competitive open-seat House races in 2010 could complicate Republican efforts to fully maximize a favorable national environment and make large seat gains after back-to-back elections where the political winds were blowing [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

• Financing Education

  Something is most definitely wrong with our education system.
  
  AISD Superintendent Carstarphen:
  If we simply reduced the number of absences by half across the district, excused and unexcused, I could generate $20 million.This isn't how things should work.' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:04pm EST
  

• Commentary

  There are too many gunmen. [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:52pm EST
  

• Instant Expertise

  My sister learned everything she needed to know about healthcare reform by reading an op/ed by the CEO of Whole Foods.  I swear to god, that was it.  She favors the removal of all government regulations from health insurance and health care because she's healthy and if everyone took' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:19am EST
  

• Terrorist Rampages

  Was the shooting at Fort Hood a "terrorist act"?  Sure, I'll agree to that.  But of course, so was Columbine.  And the Virginia Tech killer.  And that guy who shot up the Aerobics class.  These are all terrorist acts.  It's all about powerless people trying to show that they're' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:16am EST
  

• Obama: Making Shit Work

  It's accepted as a matter of faith that Obama would be happy with any reform bill, so he can claim a victory no matter how shitty it is.  And the idea is that Obama would put politics ahead of policy and be happy to give us a shitty bill.  But' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:17am EST
  

• Punishing Children

  The whole reason we treat kids differently from adults is because we don't think kids are as capable as adults at making the right decisions; and there is much science to back that up.  Yet, why is it that when kids commit heinous crimes, crimes which would indicate that the' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:03am EST
  

• How Not to Save the Children

  Oh, yeah.  This will keep them away in droves:
  On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affiliates of the CW network to pre-empt the show.
  Airing the teen tryst, which is being teased in an [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:03am EST
  

• Conservative Bites Republican

  Conservatives chase moderate Republican out of race in Republican district and the Democrat wins.  Bwa ha ha ha haaaa!  Can there be a bigger rebuke to the insane belief that the chief electoral problem for Republicans in the last two elections is that they weren't conservative enough?  Boing!  But' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:21am EST
  

• Orrin Hatch is Right

  Orrin Hatch on why Healthcare Reform must be stopped:
  "And if they get there, of course, you're going to have a very rough time having a two-party system in this country, because almost everybody's going to say, 'All we ever were, all we ever are, all we ever hope'" [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:02am EST
  

• The Monster Party

  Carpetbagger's got a post about how Scozzafava, a leading candidate for worst name ever, is dropping out as the Republican candidate in a Republican-leaning district in New York because Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, is stealing much of her support.  And one of the commenters there insists that' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:56am EDT
  

• No Good News is Good News

  The ability to criticize shouldn't be confused with the merit of those criticisms.  Just because you can find something to complain about doesn't mean that you should be complaining.  And I thought of this in dualing criticisms of Obama I saw at Carpetbagger's from folks on both sides of the' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:34am EDT
  

• Red Light Politics

  Conservative policy is like removing all the stop lights and letting people decide for themselves when to go.  Republican policy is like arranging it so the lights are always green for privileged members.  Neither of these are particularly good policies, though it's easy to see why only the Republican policy' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:35am EDT
  

• Belief Is Not Enough

  You don't believe in magical dragons.  You'd seek professional help if voices in your head started telling you to exterminate all squirrels.  And if you had yourself mummified upon death like an Egyptian, it'd be as a joke.  I'm sure of it.  And if that's not the case, please don't [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:47am EDT
  

• Conservative Delusions of Grandeur

  The self-importance of rightwingers against the epic struggle is getting a bit out of hand.  Surely there must be a cure for this:
  
  Big government, high taxes, deficits, broken promises -- America is in trouble.  So when your grandchildren ask you why you didn't do something, be able' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:48pm EDT
  

• Confessions Are Overrated

  Why do I keep reading stupid stuff?  I saw how Mark McGwire has accepted a job as a batting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, and read this from a sports blogger:
  And, in a way, that sets him up perfectly for what he’s about to encounter: The necessity [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:33am EDT
  

• National Republican Candidates

  Via TPM, I see that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who is running for a congressional seat in New York, doesn't really know much about the issues in the particular district he's trying to represent.
  
  From the Watertown Daily, in regards to their Q&A with Mr. [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:52pm EDT
  

• Breaking News: Anti-Gay Bigots Are Bigots

  Well, duh!
  A federal judge said sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage may not delay in handing over campaign strategy documents to gay-rights groups that are looking for evidence of anti-gay bias as they try to overturn the measure.
  Oh, come on.  Are there people who truly believe' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 1:21am EDT
  

• I Didn't Do It

  WaMu's Lending Standards:
  "Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife's parents," she recalled. Simpson had been acquitted of killing his wife Nicole and her friend but was [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 4:11pm EDT
  

• The Cherry Picking Blues

  One thing to watch out for are people who insist that the basic principle of what they're saying is right, even if the specific situation they're describing doesn't support their case.  For example, when Michael Ledeen and Rush Limbaugh got caught attacking Obama for a thesis he didn't write, [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 1:20am EDT
  

• Pond Scum: The Movie

  This sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie:
  Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum.
  As it turns out, algae -- slimy, [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:13am EDT
  

• Harnessing the Crazy

  Politico's got a post about how increasingly crazy conservatives are becoming, and how Republicans might be able to tap this crazy energy in a positive way to woo moderates back into the party.  And yeah, this is about the same as my plan to harness California wildfires in order to' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
  

• Obama's Concrete Stamp Congress

  Ever notice how many of the people who complained about Bush's "rubber stamp" Congress are the same people who insist that Obama is betraying us because he hasn't gotten Congress to rubber stamp our agenda?  It's like they were more interested in slowing Bush than in the whole checks/balances thing they kept' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:55am EDT
  

• But He Hit Me Back!

  The other day, I walked up to an acquaintance of mine and punched him in the face.  Then I had my two friends hold him down while I ate his lunch.  And this guy, he had the temerity to threaten to hit us if we kept messing with him.  The [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
  

• New Boss, Same as Old Boss

  When people complain about Obama being another Bush, I see stories like this and begin to think they might be right:
  Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 4:55am EDT
  

• Delusions of an Obama Hater

  I like disagreement.  I honestly do.  I like to get feedback from people who don't agree with me, in order to get other perspectives on things, as well as to hone my own position by having to explain it to someone who doesn't already agree.  That's how I keep my brain nimble' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 4:34am EDT
  

• Good Facts Gone Bad

  In my previous post, I mocked Josh Fulton, a "liberal" blogger who created a list of 50 reasons why Obama should NOT have won the Nobel, which apparently contained fifty-three reasons.  And looking over the list, it became quite obvious that the reason it was so long was because [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:37am EDT
  

• Obama Haters Continue to Hate Obama

  Every once in awhile, someone will respond to something I wrote regarding a generic person who thinks as they think, and I'll realize that I was mistaken about that person's beliefs.  For example, I really did think that anarchists supported anarchy, until I realized they just wanted a limited' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:42am EDT
  

• I'm the Blogosphere's Abraham Lincoln, Because I'm Very Tall

  As I've argued before, Nazi comparisons are utterly shameless and despicable; the latest being Erick Erickson's reference to Whitehouse Healthcare Spokeswoman Linda Douglas as "the Joseph Goebbels of the White House Health Care shop." 
  
  But let's see, what is it about Goebbels that makes him so' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:54pm EDT
  

• Popularity is for Wimps

  Shorter Liz Cheney: If our president is popular with Norwegians, he's doing something wrong. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 4:41pm EDT
  

• Clueless Chicken Counting

  Atrios links to this NY Times article which pimps the Republican idea that they're going to sweep the mid-term elections next year and gain back over forty seats in the House.  And while that's certainly possible, I think they're smoking from the same damn crackpipe that told them [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
  

• Obama Haters Still Hate Obama

  The AP has the headline: From right and left, questions about peace prize.  And once again, we get this false dynamic, in which it's imagined that there's lots of valid criticism of an event involving Obama simply because they can find people who diss him. 
  
  And the writer' [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
  

• Clueless Conservatives and the Nobel Blues

  I read Erick Erickson's take on Obama's Nobel prize...
  I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period....and [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:23pm EDT
  

• Weak Dollar Equals Weak Attack

  Reuters has a story about how Republicans have broken a once sacred taboo by attacking Obama for the weak dollar.  But the main take I get from it: Republicans are still floundering and haven't a clue as to what to do about it.  So they're reaching for any attack [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:00am EDT
  

• Our Democratic System

  Anarchist blogger Broadsnark responded to a post I had made on our democratic system, but because her comments section is super-anal and won't allow long comments, I'm posting my reply here:
  
  First off, I'd like to say that "Love it or leave it" is most definitely NOT' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:54am EDT
  

• Anarchy as Democracy

  Don't ask me how, but I've fallen in with anarchists.  No, I'm not switching to anarchy.  I've just gotten into a discussion with them.  And as with any time I'm in a discussion, I discuss to win.  And that means I need to know more about their belief system' [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:49am EDT
  

• Donald Douglas Doesn't Know Much About Anarchy

  After my recent post on Donald Douglas' attack on anarcho-capitalists as being anarcho-commies, I've learned a lot about anarchy.  And the first thing I learned: Professor Donald Douglas doesn't know anything about anarchy.  And that's fairly surprising, seeing as how anarchic his belief system appears to those who try' [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 1:57am EDT
  

• Defeat Begets Defeat

  If there's one thing I'm great at (and trust me, I'm great at many many things), it's strategy.  I understand strategy like fish understand water.  And one of the oddest pieces of "strategy" I keep hearing from progressives is their insistence that we'd be better off if Dems lost Congress' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 2:31am EDT
  

• Obamacare Plan B

  Carpetbagger's got a post about how the Obama Admin has been increasingly putting on the pressure in regards to getting Congressional Dems to support Healthcare Reform including the Public Option; or at a minimum, agreeing to not let Republicans filibuster it. 
  
  And for as much as many progressives [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:53am EDT
  

• Donald Douglas: All Dumb is Liberal

  Poor, poor Donald Douglas.  In his herculean effort to maintain his belief that liberal=bad and conservative=good, we see posts like this one, about an anarchist who supposedly Twittered to G20 Rioters in order to help them avoid arrest.  Donald goes as far as to title his post [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:29am EDT
  

• The Futility of the Lose-Lose Liberals

  I'm continually frustrated by liberals who insist that every Republican move is part of some genius strategy that always puts them on top, and how we're all naive fools if we somehow imagine otherwise.  Somehow, they've failed to grasp that we had congressional victories in 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006,' [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
  

• The Absurdity of ACORN Election Fraud

  Some conspiracies are better than others, and it's a good test of your intellectual honesty if you know how to spot the bad ones.  And regarding the attack on Obama that ACORN stole the election for him, absolutely dreadful.  I mean, seriously, how could they have pulled it off?  The rest [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:35am EDT
  

• A Holocaust Too Far

  I've often said that extremists on both sides of the spectrum have more in common than they do with their more moderate affiliates on either side.  And I see a touch of that now, regarding Congressman Grayson's attack on the Republican healthcare plan as being "Don't Get Sick." 
  [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
  

• President Obama: An Army of One

  I'm reading this story about Republican attacks on Obama for traveling to Copenhagen in an effort to woo the Olympics to Chicago in 2016, and all I can wonder is if there's anything they won't attack Obama for and whether they'll finally attempt to start wooing non-Obama haters to' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:41pm EDT
  

• Obama the Miracle Job Maker

  While looking for something else, I happened to stumble upon the American Thinker Blog, which imagines it makes a point when it posts an AFL/CIO quote saying that Obama would be good for jobs, and then posts this from the NY Times:
  
  And as [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:24am EDT
  

• Spirtualism in Materialism

  I regularly take the Zogby Interactive poll and just got this question:
  I believe God is angry and will soon begin punishing sinners in ever greater numbers. Wow.  I'm a tad frightened to think that Zogby thinks this question warrants asking.
  
  Another question I've seen a few times asks [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:19am EDT
  

• Yet Another Victory for Biobrain

  Hey bitches, I won another carnival!  Not that there was any surprise about this, but hey, I knew you'd be excited to know someone as successful as myself.  That's why I do this stuff.  It's all for you, my loyal readers.' [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 11:42pm EDT
  

• Conservative Elitist Guilt

  NRO's got a piece by Victor Davis Hanson in which he accuses Barack Obama, our Commander-in-Chief, of being (gasp) a college administrator.  The horror!  And his evidence: Obama does things which can be compared to things a college administrator does.  Like surround himself with smart people and ignore conservatives [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 2:18am EDT
  

• Obama Loves Our Enemies

  When conservatives are right, they're right.  And when it comes to Barack "Hussein" Obama, they were right.  (And yes, Barry's middle name is important to me now.)  They warned us that Obama would be soft on our enemies and softer on our arch-enemies, and I just wouldn't listen.  And now [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
  

• The Art of the Understatement

  For as much as I enjoy being loud and absurd (and if you knew me personally, you'd know what I mean), I truly appreciate the art of the understatement.  And as it turns out, the guy who built Gitmo definitely understands that art.  I really liked the last two' [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 2:36am EDT
  

• Senator Bond Hearts Torture

  Alright, Obama said that he wanted to look forward, not backward, and therefore wasn't going to investigate the Bush torture policies.  I got that.  But the Justice Department is the one that investigates crime, and they want to open a limited investigation of crimes that went beyond Bush's torture policies. ' [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 12:45am EDT
  

• Bob McDonnell Loves Guns and Unborn Babies

  And speaking of Virginia Governor candidate (and Biobrain advertiser) Bob McDonnell, his jobs link wasn't the only place I read.  Oh no, I saw on his issues link that he had a page on "Protecting Families" and just couldn't leave that one alone.  And sure enough, Bob McDonnell [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:45am EDT
  

• I Insult My Advertisers

  I don't know why, but some Republican named Bob McDonnell has ads on my blog pertaining to his bid to be governor of Virginia.  And I can't imagine why he'd bother, as I don't even cover Texas politics, let alone politics in one of the lesser states.  But I went [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:02am EDT
  

• Republican Identity Politics

  Over at The Palmer Lyceum (which I believe is named after a new nighttime sleep aid), I read a post suggesting that Romney might have a problem in 2012 if Obamacare passes as a similar program to what Romney did in Massachussetts, and blogger Steve P asks:
  ...what will [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 3:39am EDT
  

• Defending Republicare

  In a previous post, I mentioned the GOP's plan for healthcare, which may include provisions banning the use of toilets, as well as mandatory childbirth for females over the age of fourteen.  And that's all true.  Republicare might include such provisions, as well as a cost saving provision which [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 2:15am EDT
  

• Chuck Norris is America

  One of the odder parts of the Bush era was that I remembered how much conservatives hated America during the 90's.  Oh, they hated America for the "right" reasons (ie, a commie controlled the government), but they hated it all the same.
  
  I remember one time in particular' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 10:10pm EDT
  

• A Few of My Favorite Palins

  On a previous post in which I chastised the media for being oblivious to its role in perpetuating the myth of Sarah Palin's Facebook empire, a commenter named Maria chastised me for not doing more to hightlight what a ninny Palin is.  And looking through my blog, I realized [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  

• Oppose Republicare Now

  It looks like the GOP's healthcare plan may include a provision that makes it illegal for people to use the bathroom, as well as requiring the elderly to sacrifice a newborn child to Jesus in order to receive any organ transplant.  There's even some talk about mandatory child birth [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
  

• Palin's Social Media Circus

  It's truly amazing that, for as self-important as the media is, that it still imagines that it's somehow an outside spectators looking in, with no real impact on what they're describing.  It's as if a spectator at a golf tournament was oblivious to the effect his airhorn was having on' [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 9:34pm EDT
  

• Counter-Productive Charges of Racism

  Regarding the accusations that the strong opposition to Obama is based in racism, I've got a big question: Whether or not this is true, what's the point?  Where's the strategy here, exactly?  Is it that we're trying to influence people into supporting Obama's agenda by making them think that it'll' [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
  

• Redstate: Obama Lied, No One Died

  The dopes at RedState are definitely my favorite conservatives.  While some conservatives are just badly informed because they only have a cursory interest in learning the truth, the RedStaters have it as their mission to really know what they're talking about.  And as such, they're filthy fucking liars who have [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
  

• A Principled Opponent of SAFRA

  
  I mentioned Cato's Neal McCluskey earlier, who thinks the biggest problem with higher education is that too many people are getting one. But I wanted to highlight one big difference between him and other Republicans: He actually understood that the subsidies we were giving [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:47am EDT
  

• The Freedom to Gouge

  I've written before about how clueless most Republicans are when it comes to their supposed love of "free markets," as they don't seem to have any real understanding of what it means beyond "Government Sux," and even oppose many regulations designed to make the markets work better. And so [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:40pm EDT
  

• Too Many Bachelors

  I'm writing a seperate piece on student loans and happened to catch an article in Forbes by Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey, who argues that the main problem with higher education is that too many people are getting it. And here's his proof for that:
  This is especially' [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 6:20pm EDT
  

• They Impeached President Clinton

  As a follow-up to my last post, I'd like to reiterate something in regards to comparing Obama hatred with Clinton hatred: They fricking impeached President Clinton. They impeached him. They spent almost his entire presidency investigating everything he did, starting with the firing of seven travel office employees' [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 11:18pm EDT
  

• History's Greatest Monster is Wrong

  Ok, I don't actually have a problem with Jimmy Carter, but I definitely think he was wrong to suggest that Joe Wilson's "You Lie" comment was at all rooted in racism. In fact, I don't think the opposition to Obama is race-based. Because I remember the 90's and these [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 11:24am EDT
  

• Coolest President Ever

  Kanye West is a jackass and to hear Obama say it, priceless. Honestly, for as much as I like Obama when he's giving speeches and answering questions, I like him all the more when he's got his guard down and is just chatting. Because he's not just some scripted [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 2:37am EDT
  

• The Bush Doctrine: Weakness Through Strength

  Over at American Nihilist, I wrote a great post explaining what really happened regarding the commando strike of Al Qaeda operative Saleh Ali Nabhan. I suggest you read it. But at Carpetbagger's I saw a comment regarding this and other anti-terror incidents, in which Carpetbagger was being [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 2:30am EDT
  

• The Bullying Underdogs

  As a follow-up to my last post, I'd just like to mention that I think one of the things driving conservative insanity is the cognitive dissonance between their fantasy of being the underdog and their desire for being in the majority. So, while they like to see themselves as' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:28am EDT
  

• Best Wingnut Advice: Get Involved Politically

  One encouraging development stemming from the so-called 9/12 Tea Party yesterday is a sense of empowerment that it's giving conservatives. I read a whole lot of conservative comments about the event and one general theme among them is that the people at these protests were happy to be there and [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  

• Obamacare Ruins Market-Based Rationing

  Per the AP:
  The need for more primary care doctors comes as the country's shortage of all doctors is expected to worsen, according to a study by the Association of American Medical Colleges, which found the rate of first-year enrollees in U.S. medical schools has declined steadily since 1980.
  [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
  

• 9/11 as Tragedy: Terrorist Victory

  Apparently, 9/11 was NOT a tragedy, and if you suggest that it was, the terrorists win. According to conservatives (supported by Mr. Semantics himself, Dr. Donald Douglas), the attack on 9/11 was a terrorist attack and "terrorist attacks are terrorist attacks," which presumably means we can't use any' [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 3:48am EDT
  

• Better Crime Names, Please

  Via AP:
  Delaware State Police said a woman punched a gas station clerk in the face and held scissors to his throat in a dispute over how much money she had given him.
  [....]
  As the woman drove away, police said she found the $20 bill in her purse [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
  

• Honest Weblog Awarded to ME!!!!!

  Holy shitball, people. I won an award! No, I'm not referring to the Carnival of the Liberals #96, which I also won. No, I'm talking about a much more personal award. That's right, as the title suggests, I won the Honest Weblog Award. And let me tell you, I [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  

• Michael Steele for President

  Carpetbagger has a post in which RNC clown Michael Steele attacks Obama for disrespecting Ted Kennedy's death by reading a letter that Kennedy had requested be read after his death. And if this came from any other Republican, I'd just stare at the screen in disbelief that anyone could' [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
  

• Obama Indoctrinates Congress

  So the president gives a big healthcare speech to both houses of Congress. I don't know about y'all, but I really don't feel comfortable with Obama indoctrinating Congress like this. If Obama wants to make this speech voluntary, by putting it on YouTube for Congresspeople to view at their' [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:58am EDT
  

• Obamacare Question of the Day

  This is, I'm sure, a stupid question, but I needed to post something, yet the post I'm working on is getting too long and I need to go to bed; so here goes.
  
  Now, this is probably the wine talking, but...will "Obamacare" insure homeless people? That seems like [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 2:31am EDT
  

• Invasion of the Brain Snatchers

  Great. My mom is now into Obamascare. I just had a lengthy phone conversation with her which somehow got into healthcare reform and she's repeating all the same lies that all the other freaks are saying.
  Not only is she convinced that government bureaucrats are going to come to [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
  

• Why Sarah Palin Ain't Ronald Reagan

  It's amazing to see reporter-types who are so caught-up in conventional wisdom that they actually imagine they're refuting the groupthink while continuing to perpetuate it. Here's a piece from Walter Rodgers, some former CNN reporter, who asks the pertinent question: Can Sarah Palin be more than a political celebrity?[...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
  

• Government Interference Helps Innovation

  In my last post, I quoted Megan McArdle saying "I'm not defending Big Pharma--I could care less if Pfizer stays in business. I'm defending market pricing for drugs."
  
  Yet, this only showcases what a complete nimrod she is. Because there IS no proper market price for new [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 2:18am EDT
  

• Megan McArdle's Homework

  Via TNR, I see that conservative Megan McArdle continues her "moderate" wingnuttery by pretending to take an open-minded view of why she opposes healthcare reform, before insisting that she's forced to oppose it based entirely on shit she just made up.
  
  Her post says her primary [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 1:53am EDT
  

• Thou Shalt Not Promote Equality

  Carpetbagger has a post in which he finds it ironic that the states where people most need "Obamacare," (ie, residents in Southern and Western states), are the most likely to oppose it. But I really think this all makes sense, as one big reason these places are so underinsured [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
  

• Death Panels Dumbed Down

  Someone linked to my last post in a comment on a post titled "Got cancer? Heart Problem? and Medicare? Meet the death panel!" in which someone named FuzzyGold actually dumbs down Sarah Palin's "death panels" smear into meaning that the government is reducing certain Medicare payments. No longer [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 1:10am EDT
  

• Blogger Cries Foul Over Biased Article

  The Associated Press sucks so much that when I read an article titled Cardiologists Crying Foul Over Medicare Cuts Hurt Obama Revamp, which spent most of it's time featuring unchecked claims from cardiologists; I naturally assumed it was from the AP and was surprised to learn it came from [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
  

• Conservatives Heart Demand-Side Economics

  When the issue of tax cuts arises, one of the favorite conservative attacks is to insist that it's hypocritical of us to complain about tax cuts, while also accepting them if they pass. They argue that, if we think the government needs more money, we should be happy to go [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
  

• Thoughts on Ted Kennedy's Passing

  First off, for anyone wanting to read a horrible post about Ted Kennedy's death, you can read my post about how nihilist hitmen assassinated the dude because he was going to tell the truth about what happened at Chappaquiddick. But don't say I didn't warn you.
  And after re-reading [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
  

• The Media Herd

  Krugman had a post the other day regarding Marc Ambinder's claim that reflexive anti-Bushism was the only reason liberals were right in seeing political motives for all the 2004 Terror alerts. And I found the whole thing to be in-line with what all the "liberal" dopes in the media [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 1:16am EDT
  

• Prosecuting Bush Torture

  Via TPMMuckraker, we have the good news that a special prosecutor has been named to investigate Bush-era torture, as well as the bad news, that his mandate will be limited to only investigating folks who went beyond Bush-approved torture. As one commenter suggested, the phrase "I was only issuing" [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
  

• Joke Line v. Crazy Hobo

  Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Aimai has a post about a lucky confrontation with Joe Klein at a friend's cook-out, and it reminded me of a time earlier this week when I was at my neighborhood pool and overheard this homeless guy ranting to some poor guy [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 1:26am EDT
  

• Seeing the Enemy's Weakness

  It's always easier to see your own difficulties than to see anyone else's, because they're so much bigger for you. More real. And when you're in a fight, it's easy to focus on every setback you face while over-emphasizing your enemy's strengths and attacks. Particularly when your enemy uses their' [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 2:01am EDT
  

• Things I Learned From Mr. Conservative

  My new found fascination with Mr. Conservative, Dr. Donald May, continues to grow. Here are a few things I learned tonight, in his piece: Health Care Smoke and Mirrors.
  
  Obama is realizing that "the people" don't want bureaucrats making their healthcare' [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 1:23am EDT
  

• Defeatocrats Win Again

  Over at Carpetbagger's, he's got two posts in which defeatist Dems are using setbacks in the healthcare debate as proof that they were right, Obama and Congressional Dems are ineffective, and we might as well just toss up our hands and abandon the party. Not that they'll admit to this, [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 2:18am EDT
  

• A Tale of One Moron

  The final post in my series on "Mr. Conservative," Dr. Donald May, is definitely my favorite, as Dr. May gets all literary on our asses with his post A Tale of Two Crises. Just check out this oddball beginning:
  
  It [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 2:25am EDT
  

• The Post Office That Never Worked

  I had so much fun in my last post with Dr. Donald May that I decided to do a few more. This time, it's in his post in which he claims Obama Admits Government is Inefficient.
  
  And Obama's statement was [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
  

• The New Donald

  Wow. For as much as I criticize Dr. Donald Douglas for always outsourcing his blog to others, it turns out there's another Dr. Donald out there who has made me more grateful of Douglas' cut-and-paste ways.
  
  And that would be "Mr. Conservative," Dr.' [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 4:32am EDT
  

• Obama Hates Greedy Surgeons

  At a recent town hall, Obama responded to a woman's question about healthcare by explaining how his plan will help keep costs down, partly by paying more to primary care physicians in order to make more drastic options unnecessary. And while this seems obvious to me, someone with [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 3:04am EDT
  

• The Sell-Out Continues

  Now that I've decided to cash-in by including ads on my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to take the next step by doing a little more to promote my site and make it more user-friendly for people who might not have seen my material at' [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 3:05am EDT
  

• Democracy is Theft

  At a conservative blog that shall remain nameless, a conservative commenter who insisted that "Obama absolutely wants to destroy America" suggested that "nationalized health care is theft!" Presumably, he was referring to Obama's plan, though I'm unsure what that had to do with nationalized health care.
  
  And of' [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 3:46am EDT
  

• Conservatives Always Win

  Conservatives understand that they ALWAYS get a say in how our government works, even if they lose elections, because they're "normal citizens" who know what's best for us. When they win elections, which is what happens when our election fraud fails, they know that their politicians need to listen to' [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 12:37pm EDT