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• Can Fallen Politician Score an Electoral Comeback in Face-Off Against Stephen Colbert’s Sister?

  April 3, 2013 at 8:14am

  In reply to lala76.

  Sanford has made a LOT of good, sound, conservative decisions, and votes according to the proper conservative mindset, but I too am dismayed that the SC GOP has allowed him back in the political arena because he’s a liar, cheat, and serial sacred promise breaker as are ALL adulterers.
  Look, it’s a wonderful Christian thing to forgive the man who robbed your home, maybe even not press charges if he returns the stolen goods, but you DON’T give him the keys to your house afterward!
  Sadly, we’re left with trusting that his repentance is bona fide, since voting for the Democrat is INSANE.

• Store’s New Policy Will Charge Customers $5 Fee for Doing Something Practically Everyone Has Done at Some Point

  March 25, 2013 at 8:45pm

  This story has already been told by Rabelais.
  A beggar was spending too much time sniffing the wonderful fresh bread smells outside a baker’s shop, so the baker demanded he pay. The beggar refused, of course, because he wasn’t consuming any bread. So the shopkeeper protested that HE made the smells, and since the beggar was benefiting, he owed him for his work. A third party came to judge the affair and asked for a penny from the beggar, deftly pinged it on the ground and caught it back in his hand: “did you hear that?” He asked the baker. And when the baker said of course he heard, the wise passerby concluded “then you’ve been paid by the sound of money the same way the beggar consumed your smell of bread”.

• Former Obama Czar Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

  March 22, 2013 at 10:37pm

  In reply to HappyStretchedThin.

  @Godfather,
  Your very post proves my point.
  Projection1: you claim I don’t take sources into proper account. But YOU’RE the one who fails to note that the quote is from MOTHER JONES! (Not exactly a Beck-friendly publication)
  Projection2: you claim that I should be more careful not to assume I know everything he said. But YOU’RE the one who failed to note this article DOES claim it’s only an excerpt from his book. I’m responding to what he released in THIS article, NOT his book (which I’m quite capable of evaluating when it’s available)
  Projection3: you claim Beck makes wild made-up claims that no one should need refute as if Beck had no evidence or reasoning. But YOU’RE the one who doesn’t bother citing a SINGLE example of what Beck “made up”, and it’s therefore YOU that’s making stuff up about Beck.
  Prove otherwise.

• Former Obama Czar Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

  March 22, 2013 at 1:27am

  In reply to dosdelgados.

  It’s not as insidious as it sounds (although Sunstein will twist it to become such). Really it just means the factors these economists try to study are less strictly “supply and demand” kinds of RATIONAL variables, and more emotional, social, and cognitive kinds of factors. It’s a mishmash of sociology and economics (sociology overlaps anyway, as an attempt to explain human behaviors), and DOES have valid lines of inquiry as a discipline. You’re right that it would be EASY to subvert for a Marxist or Keynesian, however.

• Former Obama Czar Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

  March 22, 2013 at 1:23am

  Amazing the projection coming from this supposedly learned wizard of smart.
  For all his cries of “Beck’s a mindless hater” he doesn’t outline a SINGLE REASON Beck might have a problem with him and attempt to refute it.
  Who’s the mindless one really?

• CNN Asked Rand Paul About Abortion Exceptions: This Is How He Answered

  March 20, 2013 at 7:31am

  In reply to Ghandi was a Republican.

  @Verse
  This mass of cells: Is it, or is it not life by the scientific definition? Is it or is it not human by the scientific definition? It seems YOU’RE the one attempting to define reality based on your own desire for convenience here. If it IS human life, the constitution DOES require us to protect it.
  By the way, I realize you’re just trying to be cute, but it doesn’t actually help your argument to backhandedly claim that people who believe in the unborn are somehow equivalent to people who believe in the undead. It just shows you’re the one who can’t make correct distinctions.
  @ Live2BE
  You’re absolutely right about that. The govt should have NO right to tell a woman what to do with HER body. It’s that INNOCENT, and POTENTIALLY SUCESSFUL BABY’S body it should legislate to protect. Why can’t you get it through your thick skull that females SHARE their bodies with another one when they’re pregnant? No one wants to tell a woman how to behave, and YOU should stop trying to legislate your LACK of religious views on everyone else by conveniently pretending there’s no state interest in preventing the murder of that innocent life within her. And you FURTHER prove yourself logicless by somehow equating new children with welfare. Don’t you get that each new life is precious and infinitely capable? Why do you predict dependence rather than wild success for each new child? For all you know s/he could prove the SOLUTION to welfare.

• Harry Reid Actually Uses Explosion That Killed 7 Marines as Opportunity to…Complain About Sequestration

  March 19, 2013 at 3:07pm

  I’m so shocked that he didn’t complain about the sequester in the style of a cowboy poem…

• Study: Religion May Help Hardcore Criminals Justify Their Crimes

  March 12, 2013 at 3:53am

  In reply to Margyt.

  Hi Monk,
  You likewise. I’ll keep my eye out.

• Study: Religion May Help Hardcore Criminals Justify Their Crimes

  March 12, 2013 at 12:15am

  In reply to Margyt.

  Gotta love it when non-believers pretend to understand everything about religion, and take just about everything at face value from the mouths of those guilty of the most extreme examples of immorality in a broader effort to discredit that which they never understood in the first place.
  Measuring conversion isn’t an exact science, granted, but there ARE some signs beyond what twisted versions of a self-justifying “system” of belief those convicts CALL Christianity. Doesn’t this yahoo think the believers going to testify have SOME sense of when the conversion isn’t complete yet?

• Conservative Editor Bill Kristol Rips ‘Fearmongering’ Rand Paul’s ‘Kookiness’: ‘Spokesman for the Code Pink Faction’ of the GOP

  March 11, 2013 at 6:34pm

  In reply to civilwarcometh.

  So let me get this straight, Mr. Kristol: when the administration warns us that the government and therefore our lives will come to a screeching halt if we don’t let him borrow and spend more to unconstitutionally expand his governmental control over more aspects of our lives, it’s not fear mongering. But when Rand Paul asks questions about the details of that expansion, not only over aspects of life, but over life itself, somehow that’s fear mongering? It’s guys like you that are making the GOP an empty shell of what it once was. How about stop trying to cut the legs off a guy in power who’s trying to keep the government limited to the constitution, and support him? That’s what the Reagan big-tent was about, remember?