Or… Chafee’ing at the Bit Last week, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination to the
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Muslim or Black in America
I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing
Continue readingHillary Clinton and the Theatre of Stupid
… Or Hillary Clinton for President! Because Rednecks, That’s Why… Yesterday, Hillary Clinton finally officially announced that she’s running for Pres-o-dent of the Amrika.
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Prajwal Kulkarni makes an interesting statement about diversity in an Medium.com essay entitled, “Who Speaks for the Black Pentacostal”: Whatever their differences, they [Christians]
Continue readingThe Moral Therapeutic Deism of ISIS
Rod Dreher, in a characteristically brilliant post entitled When ISIS Ran the American South, reminds us that no society is too far removed, historically-speaking,
Continue readingIndia’s Pragmatism – Staying the Frak Out of the Middle East
In a provocative essay in Foreign Affairs, Shashank Joshi lays out the reasons why India has, by and large, stayed out of Middle Eastern
Continue readingKick Rocks, Jamaat
Welcome news from Bangladesh via the Economist: A High Court in Bangladesh ruled that the country’s biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, is unfit to
Continue readingReaping the seeds of Wars on Drugs and Terror
Ummm what?! In many places, the police are using laws designed to help them advance the drug war to confiscate property from ordinary citizens
Continue readingWeiner’s Second Coming…
A quick word about Anthony Weiner’s newest sex scandal. I’m sick of his wife, Huma Abedin. She actually stood by and defended him again.
Continue readingRoger Ailes Toads the Wet Sprocket
Rod Dreher linked to a bit in a profile of Fox News chief, Roger Ailes: Ailes admits that he sometimes flies off the handle.
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