Latest study says climate change — the warming part of it, though, not the cooling part, which is caused by the warming part, or else vice versa (please, stop getting caught up in the details, anti-science denialists; it’s very technical and you, with your god and your guns and your racism wouldn’t understand the nuances of the calculations involved) — can cause wars. — Which, if you think about it,
August 2013
August 16, 2013
When seconds count, make sure your wife is licensed to carry … [Darleen Click]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Houston At around 4 a.m. Thursday, a man who does not want to be identified, said his brother was robbed by six men with guns at a Denny’s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. “I don’t know if it was random or someone set him up. Because he got his own label,” said the victim’s brother. His brother’s wife was in the restroom at
August 16, 2013
“NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year.” [Darleen Click]
… but it’s a phony scandal! Do read the whole article. Much of it confirms what has already been suspected by the revelation of the vast hoovering of American citizen communications. Yet, what comes through here is the cavalier attitude of those connected with NSA towards the data gathered and the equivocations used to deflect concern. The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor
August 15, 2013
Here, Listen to Mike Lee embarrass Karl Rove and then tell me: why do we allow the establishment to control us?
From Hannity’s radio program, the issue being defunding ObamaCare, which of course the brilliant GOP strategists believe is a fool’s errand — while success, evidently, is raising money off of people’s displeasure with it, then using that money to win 1.9% of your races. But, you know. The Architect!
August 15, 2013
What’s left?
It looks like the national conversation on constitutionalism may finally be forced into the mainstream by The Liberty Amendments and the collective push of (real) conservative talk radio and certain FOX hosts to promote it, for good or ill. That’s a positive turn of events, and something I’ve advocated for for years — most (in)famously, I suppose, in the Hot Air piece in which I argued we should actively and
August 15, 2013
Follow up to Levin’s discussion with Hannity
Note: if you hadn’t already, go back and pay particular attention to Levin’s comments about how our justices are “twisting language” to “rewrite” the Constitution on the fly, essentially holding on-going constitutional conventions in which a single justice can, by coming down on one side or another of a given issue (which is oftentimes supposed to be out of their purview), effectively rewrite the document, and leave us no recourse
August 15, 2013
FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Levin, Sean Hannity on Levin’s The Liberty Amendments
A framework for our coming discussions.
August 15, 2013
NAA[L]CP: That Rodeo Clown? Feds should lynch him! Like yesterday! [Darleen Click]
No one has ever, ever mocked a sitting President! EVAH! On Tuesday, the Missouri State National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a statement asking for federal involvement in the case of a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask and then asked the crowd if they’d like to see Obama run down by a bull. “The activities at the Missouri State Fair targeting and inciting violence
August 14, 2013
The easy, elegant genius of David Thompson
… on display for all to envy. And nary a 1000-word sentence in the mix. When I grow up, I think I want to be David. But as we all know that I’m never gonna grow up, he’s really quite safe. Ridiculously so, even. Because as I was writing this, I just invented four new fart jokes! Juvenile, sure. But they were juicy ones, that much I can assure you!
August 14, 2013
“Facebook: Purveyor of Hate”
David Fischler looks into the Facebook double standard for what comes to count as hate speech worthy of censor, in this case, its defense of an anti-semitic Holocaust denial page. Now, Facebook being privately owned can do what it pleases. But the fact that it can do as it pleases doesn’t mean we can’t criticize it for making obviously “anti-foundationalist” decisions that are awash in hypocrisy. I don’t have much