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About That “Well-Regulated Militia” 0

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Law Broken, or Broken Law? 2

Via Raw Story.

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TeaPorn 0

NSFW. Most decidedly NSFW.

Via Delaware Liberal.

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Theft of Services 0

Kavips explains how the charter school scam works.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Man: Let me get this straiight.  Your anti-poverty program is no food for the poor, no health care and no education.  Why should I vote for you?  Republican:  You won't, friend,  not unless you have ID.  Man to pregnant wife on donkey as he walks away from the inn--at Bethlehem:  C'mon, Honey.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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Family Feud 0

Dick Polman tries to explain the internecine wars within the Republican Party. As First Son used to say when he was a teenager, “It’s complicated.”

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Does Size Matter? 0

Apparently, it does to Republicans.

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The Marx of the Beast (Updated) 0

PoliticalProf analyzes the power of economics in Republicanism:

Think about the whole conservative assault on the very notion of payments to families for food and housing (what most people think of as welfare). The whole critique insists that such payments create cycles of dependency and thus entrap generations of persons in poverty and, well, laziness. Again, never mind that actual fact that the vast majority of people who go on benefits at some point in their lives stay on them only temporarily. Never mind that the typical recipient of benefits is a recently divorced white woman with children. Nope: it’s laziness and dependency, and programs like workfare are, we are told, needed to cut the vicious circle of welfare and dependency. (By the way, do we provide transportation to these jobs the poor are to take? No? Daycare? No.)

Follow the link to find out who left his Marx on the Republican Party.

Addendum, Later That Same Morning:

Discussion and clarification. Worth the two minutes it takes to read. A nugget:

. . . that human beings are not just economic creatures. They are social and antisocial and enculturated and alienated and self-interested and altruistic and every other contradictory impulse and condition all at the same time.

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Behind that Curtain 0

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The Surveillance State 4

It’s what we want.

PoliticalProf explains. A nugget:

See, we’ve built a culture that assumes that more punishment is always better than less; that more layers of “security” translate inevitably into actual security. (They don’t by the way: most of what passes for “security” these days is really theater; and layers upon layers of bureaucracy for “security” is just so many more places things can get lost in the system.) So just as any “cuts” to “defense” will somehow make us less secure (since F-22 fighters are central to the war on terror against the almighty Taliban Air Force), any “cuts” to “security” will apparently make us “less secure.”

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Theft of Services 0

More on the effort to destroy public education.

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Political Hacks 0

Not what quite what they expected.

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“Four Score and Seven Years Ago . . . .” 0

Reg Henry ruminates on the legacy of Gettysburg.

Just read it.

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Troll Time 0

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Via C&L.

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Susie Sampson Soberly Celebrates the Fourth 0

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Incongruously Assembled 0

Woman:  The people in Egypt are rising up against a dysfunctional democracy.  Man, looking at U. S. Capitol:  So what's our excuse?


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We, the People 2

Carnival:  Super Coaster booth:

Via BartCop.

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Freedom from Want 0

Satire:  Paul Ryan saying,

Via BartCop.

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Tea Time 0

Teabagger wearing Gadsden Flag teeshirt preparing to tread on you.


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“With Justice for All” 0

Statue of Klansman reading write entitled

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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