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Mr. Moonlight

June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Politics

Check out my guest post on the Virginia Attorney General’s frivolous anti-health lawsuit.  It’s on the blog of the Virginia Organizing Project, a wonderful grassroots organization empowering people in local communities to improve their quality of life.
-AR

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Hypocrite!!!

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Politics

Nothing delights politicians, talking heads, and activists more than being able to accuse their opponents of hypocrisy.  I myself love having the opportunity to cry hypocrite.  Often, such charges are warranted because partisans are willing to abandon long-term principles to score points in the short-term.  But charges of hypocrisy are often themselves a product of [...]

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Health Care Showdown!

March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

On  the pages of the Butler Eagle: me vs. this lunatic.
Personally, I think I got the better of this exchange, but that might just be because that’s what the chip that George Soros implanted in my brain wants me to think.  One thing I will say for Mr. Been:  he’s definitely been paying attention when [...]

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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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Another History Lesson

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California has come to the defense of Tea Party protesters hurling racial and homophobic slurs at members of Congress, finding such behavior understandable because “[w]hen you use a totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy.”
Both halves of Rep. Nunes “totalitarian tactics justify hate speech” rationale are incorrect.  For [...]

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Be Careful What You Wish For

March 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

Kathryn Lopez of the National Review denies having seen any signs of racism in the crowds of protesters outside the Capitol and demands that Democrats be more specific in their allegations.
OK.
-AR

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Health Care’s Winning Season?

March 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · AR, Politics, Sports

Every year about this time, I start talking myself into believing that this will finally be the year that the Pirates have their first winning season since I was 10 years old.  I even have a pathetic exercise where I go through the starting lineup and the rotation, and imagine the best-case scenario stat line [...]

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The State of the Union. . . Depends on Mitch McConnell Growing a Conscience

January 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

My expectation going into last night’s State of the Union address was that the President would be bold and combative in tone, but timid and capitulatory in substance.  In other words, that he would renew his call  for victory on major issues like climate change and health care, but dramatically redefine what victory means in [...]

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The Sad, Untriumphant Return of Lying to Make Friends

January 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Law School, Politics, Supreme Court

Due to a combination of final papers, holidays, cross-country and cross-state travel, the start of a new semester, and good old-fashioned laziness, Lying to Make Friends has been silent for the past month.  That silence has been extended for the past week because all of the top stories in the news, with the exception of [...]

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Lying to Make Friends Goes Undercover

December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

Lying To Make Friends ventured out into the world of the Teabaggers today to do some actual reporting.  Well, I’m not sure it qualifies as reporting when you’re too terrified to actually talk to anyone (other than the UNC fan who accosted me because of my Duke sweatshirt), but I did take pictures!

First, a nice [...]

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