From a comment by Jon H. at Belgravia Dispatch:
Lance writes: “Supporting the war doesn’t mean you should have to fight.”
Absolutely.
However, one’s willingness to enlist marks the limit on just how important the war really is to you, doesn’t it?
Plenty of hawks support the war, just so long as someone else is fighting it.
This rhetorical device [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2005 by pwyll
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Broke and without enough money in the bank to pay its bills after the end of the month, the Florida Democratic Party has now been slapped with a lien by the Internal Revenue Service for failing to pay payroll and Social Security taxes in 2003.
The state party’s budget and finance committee voted [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2005 by pwyll
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A few days after the tsunami I first learned of George Bush’s ritual power to absorb all blame. A poster at the Democratic Underground blamed Bush for the tsunami, which was due (as I recall) to the US not implementing the Kyoto protocols.
It made sense. I never intentionally misplace my keys, but sometimes they’re not [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2005 by pwyll
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AMHERST, Mass. - Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a tiny biological structure that is highly electrically conductive. This breakthrough helps describe how microorganisms can clean up groundwater and produce electricity from renewable resources. It may also have applications in the emerging field of nanotechnology, which develops advanced materials and devices in [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2005 by pwyll
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Dave Shiflett, author of Exodus: Why Americans are Leaving Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity.
… one finds little of the crusading spirit of religious certitude even among the dread born-again Christians and Evangelicals. Pollsters, including the much-quoted George Barna, have instead divined widespread heterodoxy and a live-and-let-live attitude.
Born-again Christians simply aren’t as generally advertised. Consider their [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2005 by pwyll
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Doonesbury author Gary Trudeau wants the US to return to the gentle approach used during WWII. Trudeau is either a flaming hypocrite or woefully ignorant of history. Guantanamo is a far kinder place than the interment camps in which Japanese Americans were detained during WWII. Guantanamo is easily the cushiest military prison [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2005 by pwyll
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