What’s the Opiate of the Masses Again?

Oh, thank heathens. Once liberals have forged the Great Society among the grunts, they can take another crack at Nam. A noteworthy excerpt from the article tweeted above: Mother Jones: One of the most prominent military humanists has to be Pat Tillman, the NFL star...

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Kevin Drum, Perpetual Skeptic

Kevin Drum, Oct. 17, 2011: Aside from the fact that Barack Obama did not, in fact, send troops to Uganda in order to "kill Christians," what should we think about the fact that he sent troops to Uganda in the first place? Needless to say, I'm far more hesitant about...

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A Dark Day for Democrats

Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin's uterus, the nation's less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the Lightworker....

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Get Ready for the Next Great Human Rights Crusade

A mere day after the forces of light and progress ensured that no American can be deprived of his or her God-given right to kill foreigners, a new crisis of conscience emerged. A Chicago Sun-Times editorial from Sept. 21 has the details: Give military women equal...

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Don’t Like the Drugs, but the War Must Cease

We've been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it's worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than "full speed ahead." It's especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says "I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear...

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Gallows Humor

My neck will grasp as the rope descends How much the ass weighs in the end. ~Francois Villon Paul Krugman got a lot of applause from progressives last week for blasting the politicians and pundits who "cash[ed] in on the horror" of 9/11. A few days later, as if to...

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