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12 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - Question of the Day: W... · 0 replies · +3 points

He was a bloodthirsty vampire, a coward, and a boil on humanity's backside. (Not necessarily in that order.)

12 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - Question of the Day: H... · 0 replies · +1 points

...and contrasted that with Romneycare being the CEO of Bain Capital (which is one of the most unfortunately evil sounding corporations I’ve ever heard of existing in the real world, and not, say, in a 1980s cartoon of some kind (where it could have, for instance, been the front company of COBRA on GI Joe or the like)).

lol, classic.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Asking Cain About Accu... · 1 reply · +4 points

And it's important for me to note (though I really shouldn't have to) that I'm not a Cain fan, but this whole episode is proof-positive of a vicious leftward slant in the media.

(See CNN and how they ran more stories on Cain's situation, in a week, than they did in total on Obama's connection to Wright, etc., during his entire campaign.)

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Asking Cain About Accu... · 0 replies · +9 points

Actually, the initial report was unethical, if you have even a freshman's handle on journalistic ethics.

You can't publish near information and source-free articles and expect anyone to take ti seriously. It was a smear--all hat and not cattle--and, even a week later, we know virtually *nothing* about what happened other than the he said/she said chicanery still limping along on life support.

If Politico had actually done its homework, had actually gotten something more than 'something happened in the '90s that was bad', then it would be journalistically-respectable. But the bilge they published? C'mon, you know better than that.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Hysterical Defense... · 0 replies · 0 points

I hear ya: I actually love fantasy, but Harry Potter, honestly, just isn't very good and I've often marveled at the vehemence of its fans. (Part of me says that most of them read these novels as kids, so they have very, very strong emotional ties to them that an adult wouldn't, in a way sort of how much of Gen X views the original Star Wars films.)

12 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Chicago may decriminal... · 1 reply · -4 points

"No government has any right at all to tell anyone what they can put into their own bodies."

So, cocaine? Heroin? PCP are next? This is why 'logic' like this is dangerous. You can prattle on and on about the 'liberty' angle, but if you're a conservative (and you may not be), you understand that civilization can only thrive when there are some limits on its behavior. limits we've been abolishing, to mostly ill effect, for decades now.

So, yeah, you do, indeed, have more personal freedom, but that freedom has come at the expense of your fellow citizens. (Legalizing drugs and then watching the resultant carnage from addiction, manslaughter, etc., are most certainly going to follow the legalization of any drug.)

12 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Chicago may decriminal... · 1 reply · -2 points

Yeah, and it also pretty much mainlined alcoholism and all its subsequent, negative, effects out of existence. That you pretend that ti's a zero-sum game is patently ridiculous.

(I'm not arguing for prohibition to return, but this fairy tale that it was noting but negatives is just that. If you legalize pot, you are trading one set of negatives for another set, the only question is, ultimately, which set will prove more pernicious and, considering the culture today, my guess is giving people greater access to drugs that dull their edge is not in our national interest, despite the freedom issue.)

12 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Chicago may decriminal... · 0 replies · -9 points

Right, and exchange them for the 'slavery' of drug addiction. Awesome, nothing like trading one evil for another, but it's OK, because when it's 'your' evil, who cares, right?

12 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Chicago may decriminal... · 1 reply · -3 points

Ah yes, another person that mistakes correlation for causation in service to an agenda--bravo, leftist junior grade, you are well on your way to becoming a staff member for any number of Dem pols.

12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - How Hillary Became Lik... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh please: the minute she actually showed any intention of running, all that new-fangled likeability (on the part of non-lefties) would be ash.

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