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Slippery Slope Alert!

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court

In addition to campaigning on a pledge to repeal health care form, the other track opponents of the new law are taking is to challenge its constitutionality, particularly the constitutionality of the individual mandate.  The argument is that the individual mandate exceeds the federal government’s authority to tax and to regulate interstate commerce, and if [...]

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Where Right-Wing Hysteria Meets Reality

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Over the past year, ACORN has taken on nearly mythical status in the deranged minds of the Tea Party crowd.   ACORN has been imbued with the power to steal elections (even elections in which the organization has no involvment) and figures prominently in Glenn Beck’s chalkboard exposes of the vast left-wing conspiracy.  Far from being [...]

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Wait, This ISN’T Sparta?!?

November 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

In response to the story about Will Phillips, the 10 year-old Arkansas boy who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance due the country’s woeful record on gay rights, Michael Lind argues that the very notion of a pledge of allegiance is counter to what America is supposed to be about.  He traces the history [...]

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Glenn Beck Still Alive and Well This Morning

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · AS

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

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Boy, Did They Screw This One Up

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics

When Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was announced, I thought it was a fairly silly choice by the Nobel Committee. Turns out it’s much worse; it’s actually quite perverse. I thought Obama shouldn’t have won the award because he’s still relatively new in office and hasn’t yet fulfilled the promise of his campaign. But Glenn Beck [...]

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