Hypocrisy Watch category archive
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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It looks like the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” is at it again.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”
Deceptive by Definition 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus notes that, in Right-Wing Wonderland, words mean what they–right-wingers, that is–want them to mean.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts cuts to the quick:
Follow the link for her evidence.
The Privatization Scam 0
Eric Foster calls out the school voucher con for the underhanded fraud that it is: a violation of the public trust and of governments’ fiduciary duty to the citizenry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
I comment his entire piece to your attention.
Establishmentarians 0
Chris Satullo challenges the establishmentarian impulse of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Two tiny excerpts:
1) Your idea that the Bible lays out a comprehensive, clearcut judicial code or policy program for a 21st century civil government does not survive five minutes sitting with the book open on your lap and your mind switched on.
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2) One thing that is clear as day is that Jesus was suspicious (even contemptuous) of both the temporal and the institutional religious powers of his day, of Rome and the Pharisees.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Foxy Shady 0
Emma and the crew dissect the misdirection play.
In related news, PoliticalProf looks at some numbers.
Insincerely Yours 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Bruce Y. Lee takes a deep dive into fake apologies. You know the ones; he describes them in his opening:
Well, I regret to inform you that such apologies are not only fake but, unfortunately, very common.
Follow the link for some pointers on how avoid being taken in by them.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
There are none so blind as those who will not look.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh deploy duplicitous doubletalk to defeat desegregation.
Righting the wrongs of the past is in their eyes a wrong.