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May 2013

“The Great Refrainer” [Darleen Click]

Linguistic nostalgia

Or, Thou’s momma is so hot, the bitch spits ashes and sets fire to bark.         

By the way, a bunch of GOP Senators? Voted for an internet tax.

To give you an idea of where we are, politically — and linguistically — the measure was supported by the American Conservative Union. I guess they figure John Boehner and the boys, solid conservatives with an iron-fisted control over any taxation schemes, will save them in the House (from Enzi, a Republican in the Senate), where staunch, eye-on-the-ball fiscal growth hawks like Paul Ryan are open to the idea of

Mitch McConnell’s bird flip to the TEA Party

Before we get started here, let me note that Marco Rubio should have recognizing how he was being played by the establishment Republicans, who cynically used his popularity with many conservatives to give cover to an awful piece of legislation, while simultaneously knee-capping the Florida Senator’s future political ambitions in the eyes of many in the GOP base.  Having said that — and Rubio is culpable, though naivete can be

“Obama’s message to the Class of ’13: So much is wrong with America”

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Seventy-five months into his perpetual campaign to transform America into something else, Barack Obama is still talking about all that’s wrong with the country he’s spent almost $2 billion of other people’s money to lead. You might think by now the unhappy warrior would be capable of touting some progress in his annual string of commencement addresses to inattentive audiences sitting in hot sun. But, No. Obama

a CITIZEN JOURNALIST surveys Obama’s America and comes to a studied conclusion

This place is so totally fucked. I think I’m going to call it a day and go get me some Dairy Queen.    While such a thing is still even possible.

A thorough rebuke to the anti-gun emos: Barry Snell, “This is my final column for the Iowa State Daily”

And he goes out with a bang, not a whimper, “Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned”: In the gun debate, I’ve discovered that one cannot be expert enough about guns. Indeed, when it comes to the gun issue, opinion rules. There doesn’t seem to be any opportunity for any genuine, honest debate on guns, and even liberals would agree with that. I’ve often wondered about this

Why Bill Richardson is correct

Much is being made of Bill Richardson’s candid statement that Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a conservative and TEA Party favorite, shouldn’t be “defined as an Hispanic” — his positions on many issues having deviated, by Richardson’s lights, from the standard (and ascendant) identity narrative for “Hispanic authenticity,” which creates in Cruz a man of Hispanic heritage and blood who, because his politics don’t follow a particular progressive policy prescription, can’t

Half-white dude, Bill Richardson says half-Cuban Ted Cruz is not Hispanic [Darleen Click]

Cruz is just some tea-baggin’, H8ty h8tr from Texas When asked about Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, [Former New Mexico Gov. Bill] Richardson expressed his distaste for the senator. “I’m not a fan. I know [Ted Cruz is] sort of the Republican latest flavor. He’s articulate. He seems to be charismatic, but I don’t like his politics. I think he introduces a measure of incivility in the political process. Insulting people

“Victorious H.S. relay team banned from state meet after religious celebration”

Deemed “excessive” and cause for disqualification?  Pointing to the sky. Too bad.  Had the anchor broken the tape and kissed another dude full on the mouth, he probably would have gotten a congratulatory call from the President.