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Big Journalism : Alan Simpson Shows How To Respond To an 'Ambush' Interview -- Politely

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:37:08 +0000

I thought people like you would be more enlightened than to express such vile bigotry against the elderly. My mistake.

Big Government : Bob Etheridge Release Statement on Assault Video

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:41:20 +0000

INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE!!!1111eleventy! (Channeling the metaphor-impaired left)

Big Government : Bob Etheridge Release Statement on Assault Video

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:27:01 +0000

That's the insulting part. Yes, it's an actual apology, not some weasel-phrased "I'm sorry you feel that way and I'm sad that you're suing me, you insufferable uppity peasant". Even so, though the apologetic aspect of the statement is about as correct as one can reasonably hope, it is still saturated with lies. Spake Bob: "I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect" This incident is an obvious proof that he has not. Spake Bob: "I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.” Once again, this time he obviously didn't.

Big Government : From Eloquent Advocates to Boorish Hacks

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:15:52 +0000

The number of seats in the House is probably due for an increase, as well. They might have to remodel the chamber to look like the Senate in Star Wars, though.

Big Government : Eye for the News

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:04:41 +0000

Karl Rove, you magnificent bastard!

Big Government : SEIU's Latest Target? The Red Cross

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:14:34 +0000

Oh no. If there are going to be any armbands, they'll be with the O logo.

Big Journalism : First Things First: the MSM's Priorities and the VP Disconnect

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:57:15 +0000

I think he's beginning to suspect something we already know.

Big Journalism : We Demand a Retraction From CNN Over False 'Phone-Tampering' Allegation

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:20:12 +0000

You do not want to know what is written in the Scrolls of Retracto about what happens when the Correction Alpaca is not appeased.

Big Hollywood : For Help With Gulf Oil Spill, Feds Look To...James Cameron

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:28:10 +0000

The truth is that a large proportion of aboriginal populations want Walmarts and iPhones as much as the rest of us, unlike Cameron's imaginary Na'vi who refused guns, computers, and beer for reasons that were never rationally explained. My theory for making sense of Avatar is that the planetary mass tree-mind was in an ongoing brainwashing campaign to keep the Na'vi enslaved. Really, there is no scam more ultimate than setting yourself up as a god, and in this movie, it was pulled off by a bunch of trees. Show me a tribesman who makes a big deal out of preserving their ancient traditional lifestyle and concomitant 35 year life expectancy, declaiming against the Evil Earth-Raping Corporate Hobgoblins, and I'll give even odds that he's jealous of the oil or mineral assets in a neighboring tribe's territory.

Big Hollywood : For Help With Gulf Oil Spill, Feds Look To...James Cameron

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:07:18 +0000

That, and Mujaheddin on a Plane

Big Hollywood : For Help With Gulf Oil Spill, Feds Look To...James Cameron

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:04:36 +0000

Don't joke. It's only a matter of time before somebody tries to pass off a computer-enhanced production as authentic video footage in a major hoax.

Big Journalism : What Part of 'No Law' Doesn't Michigan Understand?

Mon, 31 May 2010 19:15:56 +0000

Bill of Rights violations should be prosecuted as treason.

Big Government : Debating Church and State in Texas

Mon, 24 May 2010 15:11:27 +0000

Firstly, freedom of religion does not include freedom from religion, in the sense that we are not obligated to keep the public sphere sterilized of any religious content for fear of offending someone's delicate sensibilities, neither are we obligated to condemn politicians merely for having religious opinions. Certain people may find the whole idea of religion completely irrational and fantasize about a day when the human race throws off such superstition once and for all, but that is a sort of religious viewpoint that is no less prohibited from being established by force of law than Lutheranism. There are certain important principles that we cannot allow to be blurred out by an obsession over "the wall of separation". First is the idea that whatever one's individual beliefs regarding God are, we must all be able to agree that the government is not God. The government does not have final, absolute moral authority; such authority can only be placed in universal absolute principles that stand above any human will. The origin of these absolute principles is usually attributed to God, but don't make the mistake of assuming Objectivists are just like other atheists. This can and does mean that the law of the land is not always right, that in certain circumstances it may even be a moral duty to disobey the law, which terrifies the crap out of legalists and statists. The reason we have a Bill of Rights is to protect these principles from government infringement. And make no mistake, the true ultimate law reads more like a bill of rights than an exhaustive code of conduct like the Sharia. The second item is that we must discard the notion that protection of the freedom of religion somehow prohibits us, the public, from raising concerns about particular religions, particularly the relationship between the theology of a particular religion and the conduct of its adherents toward the rest of society, that if anything bad happens we must couch our condemnation in blanket terms of denouncing "extremism" and "radicalism". Utterly deceptive twaddlespeak, says I. It is absolutely appropriate to examine the fundamental doctrines of a religion before making inane statements like "No faith condones these acts" in response to the Ft. Hood shooting. No faith whatsoever anywhere? Obviously Maj. Hasan's did. The question is to what extent his beliefs are the mainstream or not, and that question justifies a deeper investigation into Islamic theology and the opinions of Muslim theologians than most of our talking heads have been willing to carry out.

Big Hollywood : Daily Gut: Sex and the Single Jihadist

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:54:25 +0000

Because in addition to 72 virgins, those admitted to paradise also get 28 boys.

Big Government : Obamacare Will Kill Medical Technology

Tue, 4 May 2010 01:31:20 +0000

Law of the land? Only until January. The mask is off, and come November we'll see just how much of America has woken up from the drunken dream of Obama's hopeychangitude, now sober and with a wicked hangover. But I'm not going to have an argument with you, because you clearly think it is ethical to force me to pay for health insurance. I've opted out because I can't afford it right now and because I am young enough for that to be an acceptable risk. You, however, have already made it plain that you intend to rob me, using the government as a proxy. That doesn't make your hands clean; you still have the heart and spirit of a thief. Know that I do not react well to thuggery.

Big Government : EXCLUSIVE: Radical Awakening: From America Hater to Hero

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:08:16 +0000

"Naomi Klein is a Marxist" "Naomi Klein holds corporations' feet to the fire for 'bad behavior'". Somehow I don't find these statements necessarily contradictory.

Big Government : It’s Holocaust Day, and Another Holocaust Is Looming

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:08:11 +0000

Religion isn't the same as race. Your belief system governs the content of your character (I hope that phrase rings a bell). It's true that what you think about the details of the afterlife has little direct bearing on what we can expect from you in society, but there's also the moral code to think about. It's simply irrational to suggest that what a person believes is the ultimate code of conduct that supersedes all laws on earth is going to be in all cases something everyone can tolerate. Therefore, it's ridiculous to make out criticism of Islam and Islamic terrorism to be "just as bad" as what the Nazis did to the Jews.

Big Hollywood : 'Story of Stuff' is Left-Wing Propaganda Aimed at Your Child's Classroom

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:56:31 +0000

As if the Left doesn't have its share of crystal-sucking New Agers who believe in reincarnation and the Force. (That's 20% of all self-defined leftists, FYI, according to what I believe was a recent Pew study) Therefore, I can say that so-called "liberals" are a political culture which, in its mongrelized state, embraces homeopathic medicine, reiki therapy, and advocates the personhood of polar bears - giving anyone else grief about pseudoscience - could qualify as irony.