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Archive for April, 2010

Tom Tancredo: Send Obama Back To Kenya

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Tom Tancredo

Former Congressman and Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo made quite the statement at a Tea Party even over the weekend:
Waving signs and flags with slogans including, “It’s the Constitution, stupid” and “Vote them all out,” people gathered around a stage where keynote speaker Tom Tancredo, former Colorado congressman and 2008 candidate for the [...]

Can A Christian Student Group Bar Gays From Becoming Members And Still Receive Public Money ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Education, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty

That was the issue before the Supreme Court this morning:
The high court was to hear arguments Monday from the Christian Legal Society at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. The Christian group said its constitutional freedoms of speech, religion and association were violated when it was denied recognition as a student group [...]

Three Reasons To Legalize Marijuana Now

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Individual Liberty, War On Drugs

From Reason TV:

Joe Klein Equates Advocating Limited Government With Sedition

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Michelle Bachmann, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

On this weekend’s Chris Matthews show, Joel Klein said that the anti-government rhetoric coming out of the Tea Party Movement comes close to constituting sedition:

“I did a little bit of research just before this show – it’s on this little napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting [...]

Today In History: The Oklahoma City Bombing

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under History

Fifteen years ago today, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed in what was, at the time, the deadliest terror attack on American soil:
McVeigh’s original plan had been to detonate the bomb at 11:00 a.m. CST, but at dawn on April 19, 1995, he decided instead to destroy the building at 9:00 a.m. CST.[55] [...]

Poll: Vast Majority Of Americans Distrust Big Government

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Individual Liberty, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

On this Patriot’s Day, signs that Americans still haven’t bought into the Big Government lie:
WASHINGTON – Can you trust Washington?
Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can’t and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation’s ills, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center that shows public confidence [...]

Today In History: Waco Seige Ends In Disaster

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under History, Individual Liberty

Seventeen years ago today, the FBI’s 51 day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco ended in disaster:
The FBI voiced concern that the Davidians might commit mass suicide, as had happened at Jonestown where 900 people killed themselves at their leader’s behest. The newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved recommendations by the [...]

Silly Issue Of The Day: Obama Goes Golfing

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

The stupid issue of the day for today comes to us from The Washington Times, which decided to devote print space to a story about the President golfing yesterday:
On a cool but sun-drenched Sunday, the president and three golfing companions went to Andrews Air Force Base to play 18 holes. It is the 32nd time [...]

Lord Monckton, Birther

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Lord Christopher Monckton has become quite the celebrity on the American right for his attacks on the Global Warming hypothesis.
David Weigel notes, though, that he also seems to have been influenced by the crazy wing of the American right:
[I]t was jarring to hear Lord Monckton, the British politician who has become a celebrity in [...]

Today In History: Lexington And Concord

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 19th, 2010. Filed under History, Individual Liberty

Two Hundred Thirty Five Years Ago today, the American Revolution began:
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[1] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The [...]

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