That’s right, the content of calls. Without the specific and targeted warrant we all assumed under FISA was required to obtain said content. Meaning that either the President knew about the NSA’s ability to cull the content of calls without a warrant and condoned it, then lied to the American people in the most brazen way imaginable; or else he didn’t know, is overseeing yet another corrupt agency violating the
June 2013
June 17, 2013
Establishment GOP to support farm bill that provides subsidies for wealthy “farmers” and does nothing to help struggling farmers
In other words, more GOP support for crony capitalism, corporatism, vote-buying, and spending well beyond our means — and screw those Americans who aren’t part of some special interest lobbying effort. Q: What’s the easiest way to tell a Republican establishment congressperson apart from a Democrat congressperson? A: Shut up, Hobbit, and get your unhelpful ass in line. Because Todd Akin. Jeb Bush / Chris Christie 2016: if you didn’t
June 17, 2013
“Sen. Boxer: Take Money To Build Border Fence And Spend It On Immigrant Healthcare”
Or, if you like more apt headlines, “Sen Boxer: Slackjawed American xenophobes, nativists, and racists should stop worrying about keeping noble undocumented pre-Americans from entering the country illegally and start worrying about how they might work longer and harder to pay for the health care of these heroic border jumpers once they’ve expertly avoided our fascist border patrol agents and made it safely into the shadows from which we then
June 16, 2013
Happy Father’s Day! [Darleen Click]
To all the Dads, Granddads, Greats, Uncles, and big brothers who step into the unique and critical role of Father … Thank you. You get a lot of lip-service from people who really just want you to shut-up and go away and let The State take care of business. Your only role, of course, is to create wealth to support them. But every tear you dry, every backyard game of
June 15, 2013
All your children are belong to us [Darleen Click]
The triumphal yet shrill bleating from the Left over the FDA’s approval of Plan-B one-step for over-the-counter purchase with no age restriction is as depressing as it is linguistically and morally incoherent. A fine example of such predictable piffle is Cathleen London’s piece Plan B for all girls — science finally trumps politics and emotion This decision allows science to trump politics and emotion. Plan B One step is a
June 14, 2013
“HEY, KIDS! Try the Schumer-Rubio Immigration Maze Game!”
It’s all the rage! Incidentally, it’s come to my attention that in pro-“comprehensive immigration reform” ads, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Democrats pandering to the unions and a host of RINOs shilling for corporatists, are all billing themselves as “conservatives” these days. Which I suspect really screws up the political continuum, placing leftist cronyism and totalitarianism on the right, leaving the left entirely free of all but anarcho communists, and driving constitutionalism,
June 14, 2013
General warrants to collect data on most Americans? Just fine. But when it comes to mosques…
… back off, racist xenophobes. None of your profiling can or will be tolerated. So. If you’ve been wondering why the Boston Marathon bombing wasn’t stopped by the collection of meta-data, I have a theory: to stop Islamic terrorists, you monitor where they gather. Bracketing out the primary factor in Islamist terrorism — namely, Islamists and their jihad factories — seems, well, rather short-sighted as a security measure aimed at
June 14, 2013
Dear Erik Wemple, Washington Post:
I’d like to remind you of this, written by you on May 29th. Or at least, I assume it was written by you. At the very least, it appeared beneath your byline. “Sharyl Attkisson and her ‘compromised’ computers”: At the tail end of a recent radio interview, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appeared to realize that she’d gone a bit too far. She had been chatting with radio host Chris