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Originalist Sin 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”

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The Witch Trial 0

Seth dissects the duplicity of Republicans’ effort to impeach President Biden for the high crime and misdemeanor of not being a racist bigoted Putin tool.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” chooses to be polite to our furry four-legged friends.

It would seem that, in gun nut world, “SPCA” stands for the “Society for Pointing Carbines at Animals.”

We are a broken society.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Red States:  Where you can live

Via PoliticalProf.

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The Fifth Column, Reprise 0

Title:  Latest Border Crisis.  Image:  Train of GOP Elephants marching across a river from a bank labled

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

At my local rag, columnist David Hall writes eloquently of an incident of racist name-calling at a college basketball game. I commend his article to your attention.

This bit, in particular, caught my eye:

Contrary to some circulating theories, Americans aren’t any angrier or more violent or more racist than they were at any other point; they just feel more entitled to express the worst parts of themselves than they have in decades. That’s not progress.

Methinks he has a point.

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QOTD 0

Livy:

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Precedented 0

Donald Trump at a rally says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is Polite Society” 0

Be polite to our furry four-legged friends.

Words fail me.

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The Bill Comes Due 0

Sam and his crew discuss the disarray at James O’Keefe’s (laughably misnamed) Project Veritas.

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The Choice 0

Framee One, captioned

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Devolution 0

AL.com’s John Archibald charts the regress.

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“I Know You Are But What Am I,” Reprise 0

The Rude One analyzes the Republican game plan. (Warning: Rudeness.)

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QOTD 0

Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

The real victims of war are people who live at ground zero, cannon fodder for failed leaders.

Aside:

In normal times, whatever they are, I like would not have cited this, but it seemed somehow quite a propos.

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The Hunt for Hunter 0

Thom dissects the misdirection play.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.

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Courting Disaster 0

Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, fears that the current Supreme Supremacist Court is forsaking the rule of law for the rule of flaw. A snippet:

The Court’s ability to grasp what is plainly and legally obvious, you might remember, is another foundational American pillar that ain’t what it used to be.

Follow the link to see why he said that.

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See Foot. Shoot Foot. 0

PoliticalProf.

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Stray Question 0

As I was watching a television commercial, a question occurred to me:

Can I get a Bachelors of Transgressing from Strayer University

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