Sarah Palin for President: No Support?

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 12:52 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 12:52

A couple of days ago an ABC/Post poll revealed that support for Sarah Palin stood at only 39%. The general thrust of ABC's analyst, Gary Langer, was that support for her presidential candidacy is lacking. That may very well be the case ultimately, but here is my question: Does that make her candidacy and/or eventual nomination unlikely?

Paganus

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 9:16 AM PDT

2010/05/21 · 09:16

Many in the blogosphere are waking up to the news of Rand Paul's keynote address to a state branch of the Constitution Party. For those of you who aren't familiar with this Christo-fascist political party, its self-articulated overarching goal is " to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries." As B.E. Wilson at alter.net has laid out, leading figures in this party have offered apologia for the institution of slavery in the United States, advocated execution by stoning for homosexuals, and have sided with the 17th Century Inquisition against Galileo, insisting that the Earth rotates around the Sun. No, I'm not kidding.

The question that needs answering, to my mind, is "To what extent is libertarianism, as espoused by the Paul dynasty, compatible with the authoritarian Christian Dominionism of the Constitution Party?"

Paganus

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 10:38 AM PST

2009/12/15 · 10:38

Enough! If I read about or hear another benighted teabagger-type grousing about "Christ being the reason for the season," I'm going to blow a gasket! So just treat this as my primal howl against the falsification of the Western Tradition.

One of the most fascinating aspects about pagan antiquity in the West remains its enduring legacy for our modern civilization. Some areas of influence, most notably the political legacy of Roman Law and the Roman “Constitution” which so influenced the Founders of our republic, are well known.

Others are less widely recognized, especially in the realm of religion, where all of the Abrahamic religions, especially Islam and Christianity, have preserved or consciously adopted entire festivals, rituals, and iconographies from the Pagan cultures they ultimately supplanted by force.

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Monday October 12, 2009 · 11:53 AM PDT

2009/10/12 · 11:53

Our present situation in Afganistan presents a quandary. However and whenever we exit, the general wish seems to be to leave the country more stable and prosperous than when we invaded. But our very presence fuels the cause of nationalist resistance, a sentiment the Taliban have shrewdly exploited. Moreover, those Afghan politicians who depend on the UN presence have no interest in seeing a general withdrawl, and so have little incentive to accomplish the re-building of the institutions of Afghani democracy. Their calculation seems to be that if they remain corrupt and incompetent we will not leave them to the tender mercies of the resurgent Taliban. And thus the quandary. We cannot leave the country until Afghan institutions are strong enough to defend themselves against the Taliban, but we cannot actually do the work of rebuilding those institutions without undermining their legitimacy. Whether we would have wished it or no, the ultimate fate of our effort in Afghanistan is now tied to the success or failure of what has come to be known as "nation-building," and democratic nation building at that...at least so goes the common wisdom.

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Saturday October 10, 2009 · 6:44 AM PDT

2009/10/10 · 06:44

The conservative media's collective unravelling at the news of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize should surprise no one at this point. They have actively hated the Peace Prize since Carter won it.

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