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Line o’ the Day IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.fishing-boats-on-the-beach-at-les-saintes-maries-de-la-mer-20

Line o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 4, 2009
“I’m all for control of analogies. They are like guns, they should be legal but with strict...
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Hate Crimes (III)

Will May 4, 2009
Andrew Breitbart takes a flying leap over the shark with his latest bit of commentary (emphasis mine):
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State of Print

Erik Kain May 4, 2009
Resting at the heart of  State of Play (2009) is not so much the personal relationships of...
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Look Back in Anger

Will May 3, 2009
I suspect the debate over torture, atomic weaponry, and morality is rapidly reaching the point of diminishing...
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Hate Crimes (II)

Will May 3, 2009
National Review’s David Freddoso raised a few smart objections to pending hate crimes legislation:
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Sunday Celebrity Spotting Roundup

Chris Dierkes May 3, 2009
Vancouver where I live is known is kind of the Canadian Hollywood as it were.  Lots of...
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Dirty, dirty hands.

William Brafford May 3, 2009
“He orders the man tortured, convinced that he must do so for the sake of the people...
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I don’t own a tv…

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
…but I do own a computer, and these days you can do almost anything on a computer,...
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Down with the ship….

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
One thing that’s always funny to me about judicial nominees and the whole messy, partisan process of...
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2M4M

Erik Kain May 2, 2009
Via Cascadian in the comments:
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The New Face of Empire

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
Then again, simply because the United States ceased to be a ‘real’ republic does not mean that...
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a quote for the afternoon

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
“I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling...
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Not Knowing the Meaning of Words: Magic Negro Edition

Chris Dierkes May 1, 2009
Via HuffPost: CALLER: It’s just like the LA Times said last year, or two years ago —...
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One way forward for the West Bank

Guest Authors May 1, 2009
by max socol In the bowels of ED Kain’s most recent Israel prophecy, there’s a (pleasantly civil)...
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quote for the morning

Erik Kain May 1, 2009
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. ....
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A great headline…

William Brafford May 1, 2009
A.O. Scott’s review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is headlined, “I, Mutant, Red in Face and Claw,” which...
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War Crimes, Then and Now

Will April 30, 2009
In the course of a very thorough fisking of Michael Goldfarb’s latest attempt to justify torture, Julian...
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thoughts on a truth commission

Erik Kain April 30, 2009
Briefly, I think it’s fair that a lot of different opinions are being floated by various anti-torture...
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Quote for the Day

Chris Dierkes April 30, 2009
“Payback is bitchy.”  –Hiro Nakamura
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republican security thinking for the republic

Chris Dierkes April 30, 2009
Deeper minds than mine are taking on the imperialism question around the b’sphere–Freddie provides not only a...
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