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Archive for November, 2009

Bill O’Reilly: I Don’t Care About The Constitution

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politics

Chuck Schumer In 2001: Ludicrous To Assert That 9/11 Suspects Should Be Tried In A New York Courtroom

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Homeland Security, Politics, September 11th, War On Terror

Only weeks after the September 11th attacks, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer was among those proclaiming the loudest that al Qaeda suspects should not get civilian trials:
Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D – NY) support of the Obama administration’s use of the civil court system to try terrorist suspects is odd to say the least, considering how he [...]

Andrew Sullivan Is Still Obssessed With Sarah Palin’s Uterus

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin

This is just weird:
This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells [...]

Jesse Jackson Plays The Race Card On Health Care Reform

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Politics

The original race hustler has weighed in on the health care debate:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a [...]

Waiting For Sarah Palin To Make a Comeback ? You’ll Have To Wait A Lot Longer

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin

Marc Ambinder explains why a Sarah Palin comeback is going to be a lot harder than either she or her supporters believe:
The key to making a political comeback is to have somewhere to come back from — and somewhere to return to.
Sarah Palin can’t make a comeback because she didn’t go anywhere. Not up, not [...]

Obama’s Job Approval Continues To Fall

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics

A new Quinnipac poll of registered voters shows President Obama’s approval rating falling below 50% for the first time:
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 50 percent for the first time in polling by Quinnipiac University as U.S. voter discontent grows over the war in Afghanistan.
Obama’s job approval rating fell [...]

Further Thoughts On The Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Show Trial

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Homeland Security, Politics, September 11th, War On Terror

It’s becoming more and more apparent that the Obama Administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a civilian court has little to do with actual justice.
Consider for example this exchange between Senator Chuck Grassley and Attorney General Holder:
Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa): “I don’t think you can say that failure to convict is not [...]

A Libertarian Perspective On The Fort Hood Shootings

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Homeland Security, In The News, Islam, Politics, Religion, War On Terror

The Cato Institute’s Jim Harper reminds us that there’s a lot of post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning going on out there when it comes to Nidal Hasan:
An extreme instance of this is Fort Hood, about which political leaders and millions of Americans are taking a few data points—one or two things occurring—and concluding from them [...]

Republican Party Suicide

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

A new CNN poll shows that Republicans seem to favor ideological purity over actually winning elections:
Washington (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that the Democrats may be the party of pragmatism and Republicans may be the party of ideological purity.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey’s release on Tuesday comes just two weeks after internal party [...]

Cartoon Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, November 18th, 2009. Filed under Economics, Politics

Hagar gets it right:

H/T: Cato@Liberty

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