Archive for the ‘Glibertarianism’ Category
Oh, By The Way…
Which one’s Pink? Which is another way of saying that I neither should nor have anything more to say about Komenfreude, except… McMegan, as is her wont, has hit bottom and continued to dig—with a second post complaining that all the pro-choice meanies missed her point that funding health care services means that one is [...]
February 3, 2012
· 
Tom Levenson · 
45 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Glibertarianism, Pink Himalayan Salt
Fire Walker Chronicles: Don’t Take The Money And Run
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker sure is endearing himself to voters this week as the recall effort has obtained nearly twice the signatures it needed to trigger an election. His latest antics? Becoming the latest GOP governor to turn down a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange, all but assuring that the [...]
January 20, 2012
· Zandar · 22 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Kochsuckers
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Why not, then? I’ll have a go. First: There is a reason I long ago stopped reading Greenwald. That would be captured by this joke. Greenwald does a real service when he points out the facts of the surveillance state. He does monumental disservice when his particular version of civil liberties purity leads him to [...]
January 3, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 263 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Open Thread
Two Good Paul Items
Kay and ABL have been making similar points, but Alex Knapp’s piece on Ron Paul’s view of the Incorporation Doctrine of the 14th Amendment makes it even clearer that Paul puts states’ rights above civil liberties: Historically speaking, and especially in the last 70 years, the biggest battles for civil liberties have been against infringements [...]
January 3, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 69 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism
Department of Predictions
From this morning’s Toledo Blade: Investment from resurgent American automakers made big news in 2011, with General Motors and Chrysler announcing multiple large projects in Toledo and northwest Ohio that together total nearly $1 billion and should create or help preserve almost 3,400 jobs. Promise for the future of manufacturing in northwest Ohio was one [...]
January 1, 2012
· Kay · 89 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Debunking the “Ron Paul Cares About Civil Liberties” Myth
Long-time Balloonbagger TVHilton is guest blogging over at No More Mister Nice Blog, and he penned a post that is well worth reading: Last week Glenn Greenwald won the Dumbest Tweet of the Week award with this beauty, about Ron Paul: Of course, this is laughable to anyone familiar with Paul’s positions on, say, abortion, [...]
December 28, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 455 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism
All About the Paul Newsletters
Stephen L. Taylor has a thorough round-up of the Paul newsletters, if you’re interested (and, judging from the comments in last night’s open thread, many of you still are). His conclusion: Really, the bottom line is this: absent an especially comprehensive and satisfactory explanation, the newsletters utterly disqualify Paul from the nomination, let alone [...]
December 27, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 188 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Glibertarianism
Yes, I do know that Sully is a waste of time, but…
...it’s almost wreck-on-the-highway fascinating to watch his Ron Paul fixation play out.* [Blogger’s note: I’m posting in even greater haste than usual, as the holidays impose (enable) family time…(yippee, actually). So apologies in advance for typos, grotesquely elongated sentences, convoluted language, and flabbiness or outright outrages of thought. In other words, as always, what follows [...]
December 23, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 125 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, Post-racial America
Ron Paul, Innit, to Win It? (No)
Tis the season when local TV channels traditionally replay the adventures of an angry, mean-spirited little cartoon gremlin—but this year, Dr. Seuss’s Grinch risks being eclipsed by Dr. Paul’s “Ronvolutionaries”. Jonathan Chait, at NYMag’s Daily Intel, hilariously smacks down Andrew Sullivan’s happy fantasy of an Iowa-led RonPaul ReLOVution: It would be nearly impossible to imagine [...]
December 21, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 76 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Election 2012, Glibertarianism, Republican Stupidity
Iowa Frontrunner Ron Paul Thinks Everything is Unconstitutional
Also? He’s racist. If this video from Think Progress doesn’t have you laughing at the end, then there’s something wrong with your brainspace: INORITE?! And with that said, brace for Ronulan impact. I can hear them coming now.
December 20, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 232 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism
Worst of Both Worlds
I’m sure you all have been following the GOP light bulb debacle. For those of you who have not been, a quick rundown. In 2007, Republican President George Bush signed a bill to require that light bulbs be 30% more efficient by 1 January 2012. The Republicans and the Birchers Teahadists then decided last year [...]
December 19, 2011
· John Cole · 67 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, Republican Stupidity, Teabagger Stupidity
Ron Paul Made Millions from Racist Newsletter
It’s probably all stored as Kruggerands in his mattress, to guard against the Amero conversion (via SLT at OTB): Yet a subsequent report by Reason found that Ron Paul & Associates, the defunct company that published the newsletters and which counted Paul and his wife as officers, reported an income of nearly $1 million in [...]
December 18, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 131 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Glibertarianism
“The Myth of the Middle”
Via Greg Sargent, Mark Schmitt at Democracy Journal intelligently eviscerates the threadbare whinging of “centrists” in general, and the Fonzi of Freedom’s new book in particular: The last three years have brought the dysfunction of the political system into sharp relief, and, not surprisingly, the fantasy third parties and independent candidates-to-be-named-later have sprouted like mushrooms [...]
December 16, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 24 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Glibertarianism
How low will he go?
Mitch Daniels is the far-Right Governor who created the template for Walker in Wisconsin and Kasich in Ohio. I know the myth goes that the Tea Party took over the formerly moderate GOP in 2010 and that’s where the coordinated conservative multi-state strategy came from, but the truth is there’s no daylight between Walker and [...]
November 18, 2011
· Kay · 55 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Glibertarianism, Going Galt, Good News For Conservatives
Mitt Romney is always welcome here
We in Ohio were lectured for months by Governor Kasich and media that Kasich’s union busting law was not about unions. It was about health insurance. It was about merit pay. It was about budgets. It was about balancing the state budget. Very few in Ohio believed that, because it was obviously not true. The [...]
November 15, 2011
· Kay · 27 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Education, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives
