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Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 09:40am

Bill Sparkman, the census worker whose dead body was found tied to a tree with the word "Fed" scrawled on it, apparently staged his suicide to appear like a murder, according to the authorities. As one of the people who believed Sparkman to be murdered, and believed it to be the end result of the anti-government sentiment whipped up by Michele Bachman et al, it's worth saying tha[...]

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 11:20am

I am joining Josh and a bunch of other hardened progressives in taking the Don't Ask, Don't Give Pledge. You can do it here, if you are so inclined. What's the Don't Ask, Don't Give pledge?  It's simple...:I pledge not to donate to the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America, or the Obama campaign until Congress passes, and th[...]

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Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:46am

It seems to me that if we want to have any hope of "winning" the "war or terror" (whatever those terms mean), studying Jonathan Hari's brilliant profile of several ex-Jihadists in Britain *might* be a better thing to do than, oh I don't know, giving money to contractors who give it to the Taliban so the Taliban won't attack them.  

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Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at 10:23pm

Wait... let me get this straight. Not only did my Congresswoman lie about graduating from College (and lie about lying about it) prior to getting elected... but now she let drug company lobbyists write statements for her? And because of the Democratic Party machine in New York, she essentially has her job for life.  Another triumph of American democracy!

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 08:56am

It seems to me the proper response to this threat is to simply cancel their contract now and redirect the funds to secular organizations.

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