Crazy Quote of the Day
“The paramount civil liberty is a sense of security.” —Richard Cohen Ah yes. The latest fear-mongering variation of: “You can’t have civil liberties if you’re dead.”
View ArticleThe New McCarthy
It could be any number of Republicans or Fox News hosts, but this ad from Liz Cheney really sounds like McCarthy.
View ArticleRepublican Strategy Memo Spells It All Out
The politics of fear spelled out in one convenient GOP memo. It’s all right here. And that book I wrote? I rest my case. Via UPDATE… From the Politico piece. Uh doy: The 72-page document was provided...
View ArticleWorst Person, Now and Forever
Newt Gingrich is, once again, exploiting 9/11 for politics and profit. Here’s Rachel Maddow with the awfulness. How is anyone in D.C. or elsewhere still taking this slimy filth seriously? Think about...
View Article'Muslim Life is Cheap'
The broiling anti-Muslim sentiment in America is beginning to ooze beyond just the 9/11 Fetishists and the usual wingnut fear-mongers. The editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Marty Peretz, wrote an...
View ArticlePermanent Fear
The new terror warning system maintains a perpetually elevated threat level. In fact, the lowest threat level is “elevated.” • An elevated threat alert, the lowest warning, would be issued if a...
View ArticleI Narrowly Avoided a Naked Body Scanner
I went through an airport security line over the weekend and there were two metal detector lines — one with the usual metal detector doorway, and the other with a naked Backscatter machine as its...
View ArticleOne Way to Honor the Victims of Boston: Don’t Be Afraid
My Wednesday column: It’s a shame that Alex Jones and his jittery cuckoo’s nest of schizophrenic dittoheads are so tightly wedged up their own asses. Their paranoid self-fulfilling prophecies of...
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Sen. Ted Cruz: Ruler Of The Lunatic People
Senator Ted Cruz Humbly Accepts America’s Surrender. Photo by Jose Luis Magana The Values Voter Summit this weekend couldn’t have come at a better time for conservative Republicans trying to stay...
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U.S. Surveillance and Misplaced Priorities
To hear the privacy extremists tell it, you would think that abolishing government surveillance is, or should be, our top priority– miles ahead of wealth income inequality, healthcare, education, the...
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