27 July 2009 | Empire, India, Republicans | Matt Barganier
Poor John Cornyn. It’s tough to keep track of all the people we may have to murder indiscriminately.
A key US Senator who has extensively supported India, including the passage of the nuclear deal, stunned his Indian and Indian-American supporters this weekend when he identified India as a US national security threat and clubbed it with [...]
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25 June 2009 | Iran, Republicans | Matt Barganier
“Who is at the helm? The way Iran is acting up, and what about weather catastrophes? Hopefully no decision has to be made.”
- South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington), Tuesday, on then-missing Gov. Mark Sanford
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11 May 2009 | Democrats, Republicans, Torture, War crimes, War on Terror | Scott Horton
But why bring up lawbreaking by the Democrats who preceded them? We don’t want to criminalize policy differences do we?
The sooner we stop pretending there is a “rule of law” which binds the power of our government, the better off we’ll all be.
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05 May 2009 | Civil liberties, Republicans, Ron Paul | James Bovard
David Weigel has a good piece in the Washington Independent today on Ron Paul ’s rising influence in Washington. The articles mentions that Ron Paul has been bringing in some folks to have lunch and discuss ideas with some of his Republican colleagues. The article includes a quote from me: “There’s a [...]
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21 April 2008 | Barack Obama, John McCain, Republicans, US Military, War party | David Henderson
Well, OK, he didn’t say that explicitly. But he did say it implicitly.
A basic logic lesson and please forgive me if you think I’m talking down to you. I’m really not. It’s just that I’m shocked at how many people, including McCain, don’t seem to get logic. If I say, “All [...]
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