Success Begets Success
A lot of liberal blogs (and I’m as guilty of this at times as anyone else) tend to indulge in a certain degree of pessimistic fatalism about the political state of our nation. At the moment, things...
View ArticleToday In The Center Right Nation
Republican Party popularity on the wane. Public taste for activist government on the rise. Grover Norquist, ignored, is not a pretty thing. It’s premature to say that Norquist has been dethroned, but...
View ArticleThe Worst Opposition To Marriage Equality Yet
They’ve been coming out of the woodwork since New York on Friday. Metavirus found one of the great examples of this genre, which was self-pitying and self-righteous in just the right proportions. Make...
View ArticleIndividualism for Idiots
I suppose you’ve heard of the “We Are The 53%” right-wing counter-movement. If not, you can get a taste of it here and here. Be warned, though, it’s really dumb. As most Erick Erickson-conceived...
View ArticleAdding Some Science To The Gun Control Debate
I’ve written hardly anything about guns over the past week, largely because my co-bloggers have the subject very much in hand. But reading the various responses by so-called conservatives since the...
View ArticleArgue Not From Facts, My Friend. Hold Forth On What You *Believe*.
I always find it remarkable how magical religious thinking goes hand-in-hand so perfectly with magical conservative thinking. The script is always the same: Believe something based only on random...
View ArticleStop The Presses! New Wingnut Hero Says Racist Shit.
Funny how it’s only the fringe right-wing nutjobs who turn out to be raving racist assholes when given enough rope to hang themselves. Aggrieved cattleman Cliven Bundy thinks the blacks should really...
View ArticleBusiness Is Business
The big scam at the heart of movement conservatism is that liberalism/socialism/whatever we want to call American social democracy can be defeated for good. Not a whole lot of historical backing for...
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