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• $30 is a little pricey for this Romney Twitter Tee

  April 19, 2012 at 11:00am

  Diehard fans? Of Mitt Romney? Do those exist?

  Y’all can donate to Mitt “Just like Obama, but white like Bush” Romney if you want. But come on. He’s going to lose. Just like McCain. If you don’t pick a conservative, people won’t vote for the GOP. I’ll continue to just not vote, like most people you could have had if you had chosen someone like Ron Paul.

• Santorum to Savage: I’ll pray for you!

  March 21, 2012 at 9:54pm

  “I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands “Thus saith the Lord,” it lies, and lies dangerously.” – C.S. Lewis

  You Religious Right fanatics. Come talk to me when you have given up worshiping the US Government and return to worshiping Christ. I’ll help you learn how to be peacemakers and love your neighbor (not force him to follow your imperfect understanding of morality) as God commanded.

• Liberal or Conservative? Both Sides Trying to Claim ‘Hunger Games’ As Their Own — Why?

  March 20, 2012 at 8:52am

  In reply to HeavenlyMinded.

  It’s not. America went Huxley long ago. And if you don’t know what I am talking about, you have a few more books to read. (Brave New World, particularly.)

  “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.”

• Liberal or Conservative? Both Sides Trying to Claim ‘Hunger Games’ As Their Own — Why?

  March 20, 2012 at 8:45am

  Here, I will explain it to you. It’s not hard. The Hunger Games is, at its core, a pro-liberty message. The dystopian future setting has government as tyrannical overlords forcing people to do things that are clearly immoral. “Liberals” have half the picture of liberty when they talk about civil rights, but miss it when they want government to solve their perceived problems. “Conservatives”, essentially, have the other half. (The country is going downhill mostly because it seems both sides only get what they want when they are WRONG.) This view of liberty being morally good (except for all these areas where it is bad and must be opposed) is a classic example of Orwellian doublethink.

  So the liberals see their half, the conservatives see their half. If only the liberals would think about why the EPA is wrong and the conservatives would think about why the Drug War is wrong.

• Ron Paul: Er, I don’t know if I could support Romney

  March 19, 2012 at 7:10am

  In reply to Highland.

  News Flash, JustAngry. If you happen to have friends you disagree with, you are a political prostitute. Being a nice guy who doesn’t hate people over disagreement is a reason for the people to shun you as a pariah. Get with the program! (Or Big Brother will MAKE you get with it, if you catch my drift.)

• Ron Paul: Er, I don’t know if I could support Romney

  March 19, 2012 at 7:04am

  In reply to Vegasdad702.

  Spike, you are an idiot. Earmarks are already authorized money to be spent – if it isn’t earmarked by Congress (a Constitutional function of theirs, by the way), Obama gets to spend it however he wants. Would that be better?

  If that’s the only argument making Paul a “faux” fiscal conservative, you really got nothing. Whereas Santorum and Romney have spent WAY more in their time in Congress and Massachusetts, respectively, adding programs that spend more and more into perpetuity. Gingrich, of course, wants a base on the moon, so any idea that he is a fiscal conservative is ludicrous. You will sell this country out because beating the black liberal in office now is more important to you than turning the country back onto a path of fiscal sanity. That, frankly, is depressing.

• Ron Paul: Er, I don’t know if I could support Romney

  March 19, 2012 at 7:00am

  In reply to ianmc002.

  The banks donate to Romney. The same banks that own all the stock in the Federal Reserve. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidence.

• Santorum won’t fill out a b-ball bracket, either

  March 19, 2012 at 6:26am

  In reply to Netizen Kane.

  No, instead we should focus on the equivalent of the drunk guy ******* on a fence. The country is burning, but these idiots are more concerned with getting power than putting out the blaze. That would explain why only Ron Paul’s budget plan actually eliminates the deficit. It would also explain why they are so eager to go to war with Iran over a non-existent nuclear program when WE ARE BROKE.

• ‘Give Credit to the Activists’: ‘The Nation’ Lists the 20th Century’s 50 Most Influential Progressives

  March 19, 2012 at 6:22am

  In reply to kickagrandma.

  @American: “This is why Christianity today is dominated by leftists.”

  Christianity is not dominated by leftists – not since the rise of the “Religious Right” in the 80s. It is, however, dominated by bigots and warmongers that have abandoned the message of the Prince of Peace in their blind quest to conflate political power over individual’s actions and morality.

  “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.” – Barry Goldwater

  “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God‘s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.” – Barry Goldwater

• ‘Give Credit to the Activists’: ‘The Nation’ Lists the 20th Century’s 50 Most Influential Progressives

  March 19, 2012 at 6:17am

  In reply to sasquatch08.

  Justification for empire should not be popular. Such a thing flies in the face of the ideal of freedom.