Daily Archives: February 2, 2009

IRAQ GOES SECULAR? By Bitter Experience with Religious Sectarian Politics, Have the Iraqis Learned to Love RICHARD DAWKINS?

Well, not exactly. But the thesis of New York Times’s Baghdad reporter, Mudhafer al-Husaini, is that the Iraqi elections were a vindication of SECULAR (as opposed to religious) politics: The initial results showed good gains for secular parties and Prime … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break (after Thinking about George Bush’s One Million Iraqi “Commas,” Here’s a Song for the “Period”)

At the end of the line, after perhaps a number of clauses, and commas marking their course, there should be a PERIOD, and there it is.

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Oh, Momma, I Died for a Comma?

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One Million “Commas”

The Nation revisits the question: How many Iraqis have died from Bush’s Iraq war? Answer: About one million. Money quote: [B]etween 800,000 and 1.3 million “excess deaths” as we approach the six-year anniversary of this war. That’s a lot of Hegelian commas. … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break: Harry Tuttle Doesn’t Like Paperwork, and He is at Your Service!

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Did the New Republican Party Chairman, Michael Steele, Try to Lie His Way Out of Some Indiscreet Remarks? And Did He Really Compare Stem Cell Research Doctors to Nazi Holocaust Doctors?

So says Salon.com today: He got in trouble in 2006 for making some unguarded remarks disparaging then-President Bush to a group of reporters. His name was supposed to be kept off the comments, but when it quickly became obvious who … Continue reading

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Tanned, Rested, and READY?: In a New Poll, a Majority of Self-Identified Republican Voters Want Their Party to Be MORE In Line with the Views and Ethos of SARAH PALIN!

Contra Steele, more evidence that the Republican Party is being, as it were, gravitationally pulled in the direction of its most ignorant and authoritarian RIGHT-wing constituencies here. Money quote from TPM Online: A new Rasmussen poll further demonstrates that the GOP could be … Continue reading

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ENVIRONMENTALISM 101: A Conservative Tries to Explain to Other Conservatives Why He’s Concerned about GLOBAL WARMING

At conservative David Frum’s NewMajority.com website, John Murdock does his best to explain why Drudge headlines and Al Gore hatred should not be the engine that drives Republican “thinking” on global warming: For hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 has … Continue reading

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Okay, So Maybe George W. Bush Wasn’t ALL BAD

If the Iraqi elections really went as described this weekend, liberals (like me) need to be gracious enough to give the “W” his due. Max Boot: The claims made by so many analysts not long ago that the U.S. war … Continue reading

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