Monday, July 8, 2013

They Say It's My Birthday!

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Cake ladies and gentlemen, cake. It is a good day. :D
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

July 4th Open Thread

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We're taking a week off and we'll be back next Tuesday. In meantime, share your thoughts here! Happy Independence Day everyone! ...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Unruly Britannia?

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Ever since 1945, we have been told and told about how superior a system our cousins across the pond have where state welfare and such are co...
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies...

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While once again we celebrate the founding of our great nation, I just want to remind you that our Founding Fathers did not "found...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

Debunking A Few Arguments

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I like to think of our audience as a cut above. Indeed, it makes me happy that you all like to understand what is really going on rather th...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Muppet Crime Open Thread

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Sesame Street has a new Muppet. This Muppet is called “Alex” and Alex has a problem. Alex’s father is doin’ a dime up at Muppica for goin...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Our Wrongs and Our Rights

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Well, we've had fun times this week, what with DOMA being struck down and other silliness. Not being a deep and learned scholar of const...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Film Friday: Presumed Innocent (1990)

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Presumed Innocent is the best legal thriller ever filmed. It’s gripping, it’s tense. It’s incredibly realistic. It’s populated with real...

New York State of Mind and more stuff...

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Bikes, bikes, everywhere bikes. No, that photo is not of NYC, but Amsterdam. But it's only a matter of time before we look like this to...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Hollywood Will Implode!!! Or Not

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A week or so ago, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg both predicted that the film industry would “implode.” That drew a lot of attention, bu...

Is Affirmative Action In College Admissions Dead?

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Prepare your brains. . . we’re going to talk about law. Specifically, we’re going to talk about the Supreme Court “punting” on the issue of...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

News Nuggets

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Let’s do a couple of quick-hit news items you may have missed... nuggets, as it were... golden chicken parts. ● Obamacar-nage: We’ve been...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Immigration Bill Update -- 25% Reduction?

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By now you’ve probably heard about the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the Rubio bill. Let’s discuss that because it clears up the...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Outraged! And Open Threaded

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This week saw the greatest outrage of our generation. The IRS scandal? No. Syria? No. The Death Camps for Glenn Beck listeners? No. T...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

Film Friday: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

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Sometimes a box office bomb is actually a gem. Indeed, even great films can get lost when the marketing goes wrong or when the general publ...

Trickle, Trickle, Trickle....

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"Trickle-down economics." "Voodoo economics." "Reaganomics." Ooh, I'm getting a chill down my spine. I am ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Caption This: Putin Us Off

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Well, it's not been a particularly good week for President Obama and it has nothing to do with the ever-growing list of domestic scandal...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Guest Review: Side Effects (2013)

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A Film Review by Tennessee Jed Since his arrival in 1989 with Sex, Lies, and Videotape , celebrated director Steven Soderbergh has been not...

Consumerism and GM Foods

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One area where conservatives have had a real blindspot is recognizing misbehavior by corporations. All an oil company has to do is scream “...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Gallup, Rubio and the Talk Radio Base

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Bev will probably kill me for talking about 2016, so don’t tell her I said this. ;-) I said last week that despite the howling on talk rad...
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