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Neoconservatism: "A Unique Species Of Anti-Americanism"

C. Bradley Thompson calls neocons "epistemological relativists" and moral relativists in his new book on the subject:

Because the political good in their world is mutable and alwayschanging, the neoconservatives do not want fixed principles to whichthey are beholden, nor do they strive to be morally or politicallyconsistent.  Their power and authority is generated and sustained bythe illusion that the world is in a state of constant change and thatit is governed by what Machiavelli called...

Palin Soap Opera: The Latest

The Bristol-Levi wedding may be off because Levi might have fathered another child with his ex during the period away from Bristol. Or not:

A source says that Johnston claims the baby isn't his, but that, "Levi
is one of three possible fathers who were with Lanesia during the
probable week of conception."

More here.

Levi Johnston - Bristol Palin - Bristol - England - National Enquirer

Decomposin' Arizona, Ctd

A reader writes:

You asked, "So why the uptick in anti-illegal hysteria now?" Is that a rhetorical question or are you honestly puzzled? The answer is obvious. Anti-illegal hysteria is about economic uncertainty, always has been. Illegals provide a convenient scapegoat in bad times, just like Muslims (and in the past, Jews). Disturbing and at moments frightening? Yes. A mystery? No.

Another writes:

William Finnegan has perhaps the best synopsis in a New Yorker piece from a couple weeks ago...

GDP Reax

 

Chart from Clusterstock. Avent frowns at a chart from the Minneapolis Fed:

With the latest GDP data release, and new data revisions going back to the end of 2006, America's latest recession has cemented its status as clearly the worst of the postwar period.

Ezra Klein:

We'd thought the GDP grew by 0.4 percent in 2008. Now the Commerce Department says it flatlined. All this is worrying on two levels: First, bad economic news is bad economic news. And second, if you're a business deciding...

End Marijuana Prohibition Now

A cartoon that says it all:

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Malkin Award Nominee

"Muslim Day at Six Flags is inappropriate for a multitude of reasons and I'm saddened and shocked by the ignorance of the Corporate folks and by the action that now must be taken by the rest of us. ... Islam is dying in America because Americans are learning (finally) what Muslims are about, what their 'faith' is based upon, how they're recruited, how they prey on the weak, their idea of 'rights' how they cannot ever respect our constitution because it's in direct violation with Sharia and ho...

The Benefits Of The Slow Struggle

I was never one who believed that Barack Obama could - in a mere two years - repair the enormous damage of decades of unfunded entitlement and defense spending, two disastrously conceived, off-budget and negligently prosecuted wars, a financial market collapse, the worst recession since the 1930s, two burst bubbles in tech and housing, and the importation of torture into the American way of war. Maybe I over-estimated how much the GOP might learn from their appalling record in the new...

The View From Your Window

Calama, Chile, 5.30 pm

Chile - South America - Travel and Tourism - Reuters - History

The Lies Of Sarah Palin, Ctd

They work, so why stop using them?:

"I shudder at the thought of a government panel assigning a value to a day of a person's life," [Senator David:] Vitter said in the news release. "It is sickening to think that care would be withheld from a patient simply because their life is not deemed valuable enough. I fear this is the beginning of a slippery slope leading to more and more rationing under the government takeover of health care that is being forced on the American people."

The peril he...

The ADL Backs Palin Against The Cordoba Mosque

Seriously.
















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