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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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The Iranians are now claiming the UK sailors and marines were intentionally invading Iranian waters (LAT, RR):
http://tinyurl.com/3cvwbb
As Glenn said elsewhere, claims made by both sides should be taken with a great deal of salt.
that Bernstein and Woodward were neither national reporters nor old hands at the time the Watergate scandal started to break. Their stories have been well documented; what is of perhaps greater interest is how the rest of the media could have so thoroughly dropped the ball. Has this story been told? And if it has, who has told it?
Maybe Time Magazine can find some space to inform their readers about ongoing developments
The same Time that just hired Bill Kristol and Michael Kinsley?
Far more people have died in officially sanctioned violence from states where the government has banned weapons to its citizens (Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, etc.) than have ever been killed by lone psychopaths. The real point of the Second Amendment is to serve as a last stop to prevent that sort of totalitarian behavior.
Bill Clinton signed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) in 1994, which basically created the hardware that would make possible centralized wiretapping of the public switched telephone network. Those of us at the time who said this was an abuse waiting to happen have been subsequently vindicated. Glenn's rightful disgust with the Democratic Congress needs to acknowledge that Democrats have had a very large and deceitful role to play in this game as well, and for far longer than has been generally recognized.
I have said before and been twitted for suggesting that this sort of behavior was enabled by CALEA, which demanded centralized wiretapping capability. Is there anyone out there who can explain, besides with some dismissive, partisan handwave, why I should believe that the fruits of this Clinton-era law is not being used for this end?
So, let's immediately erase any benefits of high gas prices (which are changing people's behavior, yay) by wealth redistribution (which will allow people to go back to their old habits)?
Are you thinking clearly?
The reason he hasn't been impeached is because the Democrats are cowards.
Neither right nor left give a damn about upholding the Founders' ideals. The left wants a utopian nanny state complete with health care that will make sure you always buckle your seatbelt, don't talk on the cellphone while driving, and pay 60% of your income in taxes in tithe each year to the all-knowing, all-powerful State. The right wants to turn the country into a religious state, where a violent, Old Testament, Christianist God is worshipped, the children are kept safe from violent video games, the Internet, television, the press, and every other media is censored in the name of "the children" -- and you pay 60% of your income to pay for the all-knowing, all-powerful State.
Well, good luck with that.
Because I see two of them that look exactly alike. Am I missing something?
why don't you just put a cork in it and plunk down the $50,000 or so it would cost to cover your (daytime at least) electric bills with solar panels? Or could it be that these are complex issues with nontrivial solutions?
Pick one or more of the following:
1) The Democrats don't want to appear "soft on terror".
2) Like most politicians, they are lazy, and would prefer that Bush be allowed to go away after a year and a half so they can help their party win big in 2008.
3) What I believe to be the case: some of them secretly approve of unchecked power, but simply disapprove of a Republican wielding it. They are therefore uninterested in actual investigations that would unearth and limit such power.
This problem does not occur without the helpful intervention of the Federal Reserve, which, in conjunction with fractional reserve banking, creates the ability to flood the world with cheap money, and the patsies at quasi-governmental agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, who guarantee they will buy any loan under a certain size. Too bad you had to leave those things out, Tom, but then, it's just a cartoon.
All it takes is one nitwit in Washington.
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You some kinda anti-semite or somethin'?
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You act as though the Democrats aren't largely enamored of state power. Well, duh. Chasing people like Feinstein out of office should be a priority, I agree, but like most Dems, she believes there ought to be no limits to what the state can do. It is this constant that keeps Guantanamo Bay open, FISA lawbreaking unpunished, and the war in Iraq going indefinitely.
about his ARM comments, and he insisted that he had been quoted out of context on them, saying that he felt at the time an ARM would be a good deal if you knew you could get out of the mortgage in a couple years. So it wasn't a flat endorsement (or so he claimed). If that's in fact true, the penguin is wildly overstating his case. As to his ridiculous comments about the alleged regressiveness of increasing taxes on wage earners to fund Social Security, the penguin needs to remember the basic politics of Social Security: everyone pays in and everyone gets a return (supposedly), a necessary sop lest it become tagged as a wealth redistribution scheme (which it is), vote-buying with a glossy cover letter.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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