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Archive for August 8th, 2008

Krugman Catures Modern Conservatism in its Essence

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No competence, no ideas, no nothing..
Op-Ed Columnist - Know-Nothing Politics - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid…
What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone [...]

Sullivan on the Hamdan verdict…

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The driver for Bin Laden gets a sentence of 5 whole months, after already time served. We debased our constitution for a 5 month sentence against a driver? It’s sad and Sullivan explains why:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
If the administration had stuck to the Geneva Conventions, given all captives POW status not full, [...]