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On MacArthur’s Dismissal

On MacArthur’s Dismissal

Smithsonian.com has an article up purporting to tell the “true” story about General Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal by Harry Truman after the…
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Mar 10, 2017

That Ted Talk video about Hitler

This is a rough outline put together in ten minutes off the top of my head. But these are all points any serious talk about Hitler’s rise…
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Jul 20, 2016
Dana Loesch Threatened By Internet Troll

Dana Loesch Threatened By Internet Troll

This one goes into the “dumbass thug picked the wrong target” file. Second Amendment advocate and NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch had an…
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Jul 14, 2016
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Dear Justice Ginsburg: I will buy your ticket to New Zealand if you Quit and Renounce your…

So, Justice Ginsburg had this to say recently about The Donald:
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Jul 12, 2016

Gay Sulu Shows that Star Trek has gone soft

Star Trek was at the cutting edge of social issues in the 1960s. They were getting away with stuff that no one else could, and they pushed…
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Jul 8, 2016

Four Thoughts on #Brexit

(1) Can we finally admit that the foreign policy followed by the Bushes, the Clintons, and the Obamas is a complete failure? U.S. foreign…
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Jun 24, 2016

A modest question

If the teachings of a religion and a clear majority of its adherents worldwide agree that homosexuality is something that should be…
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Jun 15, 2016
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Apr 14, 2016

It turns out we have an Iranian-style system

From Scott Adams:

In Iran you can vote for anyone for…
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Mar 29, 2016

Bernie vs. Clinton — #berniemademewhite?

Here’s a question to contemplate this morning:

Why does anyone say that Sen. Sanders has a problem with “minority voters”? Even this somewhat sympathetic take from NPR this morning collapses in on itself a little by simply buying…

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Mar 24, 2016

Tay Tweets Ricky Gervais

For my money, this was the best one out of the Tay Tweets-pocalypse that happened yesterday on Twitter:

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Mar 24, 2016

A brave little theory, and actually quite reasonable, if we hadn’t already seen Rand Paul crater before Iowa had finished voting. I might have even gotten behind it myself before then.

The GOP without the South is a permanent minority party. Trading the South in the hopes of winning a few techno-libertarians in Silicon…

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Mar 23, 2016

NYT: Failed Belgian State Accommodated Islamic Terrorists

Via Ann Althouse. I offer this excerpt without comment:

The country of just 11.2 million people faces widening derision as being the world’s wealthiest failed state — a worrying mix of deeply rooted…
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Mar 23, 2016

I’d love to see that. Maybe better if we get someone who knows how to relate to people to do the interviews, though?

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Mar 22, 2016

Scott Adams: Belgium reduced Trump’s third act problem by half

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Mar 22, 2016

Enough of these Tears

Enough of these simpering tears, Europe, as your children are murdered once again by those that you welcomed in with the…

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Mar 22, 2016

The Donald on Belgium

Apparently, Trump had this to say about Belgium:

“There is something going on, Maria,” Trump replied. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Sharia law, where they want this, where they…
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Mar 21, 2016

BREAKING: US Supreme Court Throws Out Massachusetts Stun Gun Ban

In the first example of the Court’s post-Scalia jurisprudence on guns, the United States Supreme Court today threw out a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision that stun guns were not covered under the meaning of…

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