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I don’t know whether this is a case of life imitating art, or art imitating life, but their First Amendment rights notwithstanding, the creators of the “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” video game ought to be ashamed of themselves. The game is called “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” and, apart from abysmal game play, features…

From a review of the book the movie is based on: Okrent identifies five dry constituencies that formed a very unlikely coalition for the purposes of banning booze. Racists, progressives, populists, suffragists, and nativists linked hands across party and regional lines to agree on this one issue alone. Southern Democrats who used the spectacle of…

From what I can tell the Democrats are going to use Drug War Racism against the right in the next election (it is about all they have – it might be enough). I really love it!!!! My socon friends are going to have to choose between Prohibition and defeating the President. Tough choice. For them.…

A commenter on my blog repeatedly says: It is statists vs anti-statists. Right and left have no meaning except to define which things the particular brand of statists thinks is important. Update: My friend Eric just sent me a link to a Reason article which covers the same subject in a lot more depth (it…

I dunno. But it is usually a prelude to war. Wot? In? The? Hell? Is? He? Talking? About? This: Turkey Suspends Trade, Defense Ties with Israel. Turkey says it is “totally suspending” all trade and military ties with Israel as relations between the two countries continue to worsen. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced…

Inspired by the awful news at Zero Hedge. I can’t recall if I posted this before. Even if I did it is topical today. In my estimation these guys are in some ways the successors to Flanders and Swann So what is happening? We are going into Phase II of the Depression. General economic collapse.…

Via Memeorandum, I see that there is a flap over the editing of a transcript from which I quoted last night. I got the portion I quoted from Real Clear Politics, and while I didn’t watch Hoffa’s speech, it was clear to me that he was calling for war against the Tea Party, using what…

Here is some news I missed. The NAACP is calling for an end to the Drug War. The so-called war on drugs has been a failure of colossal proportions — from both racial and preventive standpoints — and the NAACP passed a resolution demanding President Obama and Congress end the program altogether. The overall message…

That is where government gets a LOT of its money. There is no point in sending lobbyists to Washington if there is no chance for gain theft. Why does the government like corporate taxation in particular? It is a stealth sales tax.

Also Why Green Energy Won’t Work And windpowerfacts.info H/T to the boys at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

Or why Republicans will never reverse socialism: The arsonist has lit a match to your house. The fire is raging. And your complaint? “The arsonist failed to wipe his feet before he came in tracking mud all over the house. Sticky-icky mud that is very hard to clean up.”

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” That was the Labor Day threat issued by Teamsters Union President James Hoffa, Jr. in a warmup to a Labor Day speech by President Obama here in Michigan.…

There’s an old legal saying that “hard cases make bad law.” In light of what I just read about a man who faces a 23 year sentence for uploading a five-minute YouTube video, I would add that hard cases can result in worse things than bad law: they can make me agree with Glenn Greenwald.…

Typical Conservative “I’m too stupid to figure out how to fix this without putting a gun to people’s heads. Lets pass a law.” Wait a minute. That sounds like a Typical Liberal. It is getting hard to tell them apart. ===== This repost of a segment from another post was prompted by Eric’s Quadrupling the…

While I am old enough to remember the debate over whether “life” begins at conception, there has recently been a rhetorical shift in terms. Now, the argument is increasingly over whether “personhood” (including the rights of citizenship with all attributes thereto pertaining) begins at conception. Not pregnancy, mind you. Fertilization. If personhood really does begin at…

I was looking for reviews of Sarah Palin’s speech in Indianola, Iowa and came across something interesting. Quite a few articles on Palin’s speech were titled Crazy Train. Evidently they are reposts of an article by a certain Sara Jones. Oh. Yeah! Crazy. Here is a a post from the Crazy Train. As tired and…

Conservatives For Palin (C4P) has a round up of news reports on her speech. Update: 5 Sept 2011 0448z Here is a transcript of Palin’s speech.

Here’s another vexing question related to my previous post about “the culture.” I have long adhered to a clueless view along the following lines: If you don’t like something, don’t buy it. What I think is happening is that a number of people across the spectrum think more along these lines: If you like something…

I think I may have left a rather huge hole in a rather large argument I’d rather not have when I referred to “the culture” as a euphemism last night. When I was a kid, the word “culture” meant what my dictionary says. Rather than laboriously copy it, here’s a photo: There is a Wiki post…

This is a joke I have heard before. In the version I heard the encounter took place in a synagogue. ==== A wealthy, older couple strolled in Central Park. They happened upon a beautiful, fashionabl­y dressed young woman walking her dog. The husband smiled and went over to the woman, chatted for a few minutes…