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• It's About Darn Time

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:12 pm

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, Higher Education, Free Speech

  Ward Churchill has been fired from the the University of Colorado. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.I don't think he should have been fired for his 9-11 "little Eichmanns" comment, although he's earned any and all social opprobrium that comes with such a vile exercise of free speech. No, he was correctly fired for faking his credentials and

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• The Real Threat To Civil Liberties

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:04 pm

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, Conservatism

  From Victor Davis Hanson:But at least the Patriot Act passed both houses of Congress with wide public support. In contrast, there are a variety of other assaults on personal freedoms, due process, and the sanctity of the law that leftwing moralists not only ignore, but often seem to endorse--as if the liberal ends should justify illiberal

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• Exactly What We Don't Need

  Published: July 21, 2007, 3:39 pm

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, Union, Election

  A president who would walk a picket line.Democrat Barack Obama is telling union activists he would walk a picket line as president if organized labor helps elect him in 2008.I guess if you have to kiss the butt of your union overlords, that's what you do.`We are facing a Washington that has thrown open its doors to the most anti-union, anti-worker

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• Sacramento Democrats Should Learn Some Math

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, K 12 Issues, Cta

  Under the GOP plan, education spending would go up 3.8 percent this fiscal year, from $55.1 billion to $57.2 billion. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic leaders back spending of $57.6 billion. So by any rational definition, what the Republicans are suggesting is a modest attempt to contain spending growth as part of an overall effort to

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• Do You Feel Safer Now With Democrats Running The Congress?

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:27 am

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, Fairness Doctrine, War On Terror

  Remember when we were told to be vigilant and report suspicious-looking people and activities? Well, do that now, and the Democrats will let the terrorists sue you.Update: Does the stock market indicate anything relating to the Global War on Terror?It has been widely reported that President Bush simply refuses to turn against the surge in Iraq,

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• Lefties Apparently Don't Think Too Highly Of Voting

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Liberals Lefties, Union, Election

  Which do you think is more important: purchasing alcohol, or voting for the officials of government? This is not a rhetorical question. Any reader of this blog will know that I choose the latter. Whatever the legal age for purchasing alcohol is in any locality, it's wise to require identification to ensure the purchaser is of legal age. But

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• On the Robert Jensen article quoting Farid Esack and Junaid Ahmad...

  Published: July 18, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Lal Masjid, Liberals, Pakistan, Progressive Politics

  of exactly us "liberals" having been the only ones actually WORKING on human rights, and freedom of speech and the like, when these Mullahs were in government with the last military dictator we had. Was it these Mullahs lining up to take on General Zia or Asma Jehangir? Technorati tags applicable to this post: Pakistani

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• Let's say I break into your house

  Published: July 16, 2007, 7:59 pm

  Tags: Liberals, America, Immigration

  “your house.” Liberals do not consider that “your house” is yours. They consider that the place where you live is community property to be used for the benefit for the entire world community.

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• In Brief: The tinfoil-hat crazies who think that George ...

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Bloggers, Crazies, Hendrik Hertzberg, Party The Netroots Loons, The Liberals, The New Yorker

  The tinfoil-hat crazies who think that George W. Bush planned 9/11 as a way to enact his monomaniacal plans to appoint himself Emperor For Life of a religious theocracy in which women's uteri are...

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• There Goes the Neighborhood: Longstanding UWS Lefty Emporium to Close

  Published: August 3, 2007, 4:47 pm

  Tags: Intel, Development, Liberals, Retail, Upper West Side

  Photo: S. Jhoanna Robledo Isn't the Upper West Side — especially the upper reaches of the eighties and into the nineties (and well into the hundreds) — supposed to be for lefty intellectual sorts following familiar routines in their sprawling, rent-controlled prewars? Not anymore, it increasingly seems. The owners of Liberty House, a

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• Der...

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:42 am

  Tags: Liberals, Howard

  Liberal polling shows Howard as being 'old and dishonest'.I don't give a shit about the old person jibe. For a man of his age Howard is exceptionally fit. He could walk the hell out of me and probably most people 20 years younger. This man power walks something like an hour each day. All credit it to him.But he is dishonest. The man is a poll

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• Brzezinski: Democrat's Affair 'Not Pressing,' No Objection to Vitter Coverage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Religion, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salinas, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  Liberals can rest easier knowing that despite her outspoken views on newsworthiness and ethics, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski can still be counted on to go to bat for the Democrats. The reporter and "Morning Joe" regular showed off her famous sense of journalistic integrity while filling in for host Joe Scarborough on Monday morning. In the

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• NYT Portrays Daily Kos Blog as Appealing to Mainstream, Ignores Inconvenient Truths

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Iraq, Labeling, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, War On Terrorism, Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, New York Times, Yearlykos

  New York Times political blogger Kate Phillips (who tried to wish away news coverage of John Kerry's "botched joke" on the eve of the 2006 congressional election) posted on the Times' "Caucus" blog Saturday from Chicago, the site of the YearlyKos convention put on by the liberal activist campaign blog The Daily Kos. Phillips

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• Black Liberal Blogger: WashPost Wrong on Hand-Wringing on Diversity

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Jose Antonio Vargas, Online Media, Blogs, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reported in the August 6 paper about worries in the Yearly Kos crowd that the liberal blogosphere is too white and too male. Critiquing that August 6 article, Jack Turner of "Jack & Jill Politics" disagreed with Vargas' assessment that every attendee at YearlyKos was wringing his or her hands

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• And so it's come to this

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Liberals, Rudd, Alp, Aboriginal Australians, Howard

  The Libs have released their emergency seizure of Aboriginal land legislation. Just 24 hours before it is voted on. Chris Graham of The National Indigenous Times, which seems to be the premier newszine on Aboriginal issues, wrote this in today's Crikey. I hope they're cool with me printing the text. Only a card-carrying member of the Liberal

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