Evil will always win because good is dumb

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Saturday October 07, 2006 · 5:24 PM PDT

2006/10/07 · 17:24

or, why I don't understand the case for impeachment.

I read a little bit about impeachment today.

A large number of liberals seem to think that would be totally awesome if we impeached the president. For my life, I cannot understand why. Is the desire to impeach simply a manifestation of rage at the president? Are we seeing a man whose personality and policy we hate, and feeling that the best way to deal with that hate is to punish him the same way conservatives tried to punish Clinton. This is the only answer I can see. I realize that there may be a decent case for impeaching the president, but I don't see where it would take us.
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Hello Pro-Lifers! Goodbye Red Baron!

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 11:13 PM PDT

2006/08/01 · 23:13

The Evangelical Right tells me all about how the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, a pro-life group (with a nice, sciency name) is planning on flying giant gory pictures of aborted fetuses to persuade some Ohians (?. . . Ohioans?, Ohis?, Hios?) that abortion is gross. This is going to ruin lunch for the many, many people, who already have to deal with the hardship of having to eat in Ohio. Just like during a solar eclipse, the poor Hios will have to keep their eyes down to avoid blindness, or at least nausea. Beyond the fact that the pictures are likely to be of late-term fetuses, since I don't think many people are going to mourn a beat up blastocyst, there's the likelihood that grossout politics is not the best tactic, since they are likely to alienate anyone who is already predisposed to distrust anti-abortion groups, and especially the kind of group that's bragging about how nasty their pictures are. Read More

Fox News: Bringing it back to Jesus

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 3:27 PM PDT

2006/07/24 · 15:27

It's no secret that Fox likes its news a certain way. John Moody, the network's senior VP for news, sends out daily missives micromanaging coverage. Last week, as rockets rained on Nazareth in Israel, Moody instructed: "The attacks on Nazareth become the lead until further notice. Nazareth is a historic and holy city. We can refer to it as the holy city, the biblical city, etc. Let's NOT call it the 'hometown of Jesus' though many would argue the city's favorite son turned out pretty well." Apparently, not everyone got the memo, as Fox ran graphics about rocket strikes on "the birthplace of Jesus" later that day.

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 6:26 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 18:26

Ned Lamont supporters have frequently utilized Joe Lieberman's public displays of affection with George W. Bush as a sign of him being out of touch with the Democratic Party. Similarly, John McCain has received scorn for the semi-regularity with which he humps the President's leg. Consider these events along with the recent man-boy love between Vladimir Putin and a young, kittenish lad, and of course, President Clinton's blowjob problems (no link to a picture for this one), which may have begun privately, but ended quite publicly. One conclusion presents itself: public politics should be one of those "no-touching" sots of activities, just like Catholic school dances, women's lacrosse, and the dreaded Portuguese Man-O-War.

Lieberman should have learned from history. More below.
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Next season on The Supreme Court

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Friday June 30, 2006 · 3:24 PM PDT

2006/06/30 · 15:24

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the United States does, in fact, have to follow its own laws in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, by rejecting the Bush Administration's plan to try Guantanamo detainees by military tribunal. This was a close one, as it would have been a 5-4 ruling if Chief Justice Roberts, who had previously ruled for the administration in his old job, had participated. Given this stunningly close victory for the human rights of detainees, what other unexpected Supreme Court decisions are around the corner? Here's a preview:

Dean v. Rumsfeld:
The court decides, 5-4, that it is unconstitutional to classify Democrats as "enemy combatants", and to detain them through the 2006 elections for the purpose of "protecting our freedom from the terrorists." Read More

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