The best indicator that the wingnuts are pulling out all the stops on Benghazi is that the corporate-funded glibertarians are getting into the act. Matt Welch: Yesterday’s dramatic congressional testimony about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. interests in Benghazi, Libya convincingly corroborated what was widely reported within days of the attack: …
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Who Is John Galt’s Mother and is This Her Ugly Bracelet?
The fools who paid for the Atlas Shrugged movie are making jewelry, just in time for Mothers’ Day. (via). This grotesque artifact is made of anodized aluminum, the stuff dreams are made of, if you dream on the cheap, though it’s called “Rearden Metal”, which I thought was only reserved for cock rings in the …
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Glibertarian Circle Jerk
Pete Suderman and company are now quoting James Pethokoukis, he of “Dude Where’s My Recession” fame. Apparently Obamacare is to blame for a lack of job growth. Mind you, when Pethokoukis was writing his column in late 2008, this is what the jobs report looked like: You have to actively work to be this stupid.
Douchebag Tag Team
You’ll never guess what couple is one of the first out of the gate distorting the Oregon Medicaid study: I’m sure you are all shocked they are doing what they are paid to do.
Your Right To Be Wrong As Hell
King Reasonoid Matt Welch reminds us that ESPN’s Chris Broussard apparently has every right to be a homophobic fundamentalist bigot about NBA player Jason Collins coming out because AMERICA. Broussard is predictably getting beaten to a rhetoric pulp on Twitter. And while I think today is a wonderful, watershed day for people (especially the artist …
So How Come No One Here Hasn’t Already Ripped Matt Y. A New One?
Been a busy week, so I guess one of the more amazing bits of deeply serious contrarian lunch-box “liberal” punditry just slipped through the cracks, (at least for me). But today, via Chris Clarke, writing at PZ Myers’ place, I finally learned that yes, Matt Yglesias did say that Bangladeshi workplaces are appropriately more deadly …
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This Week in Paul
Remember bold, brave Rand Paul, the noble filibusterer? Unlike the chickenshit so-called “progressive” Democrats, he stood athwart the Senate floor and yelled “stop” when the appointment of head of the CIA was being debated, demanding that “the president or the attorney general […] clarify that they will not kill Americans on American soil”. Paul quit his filibustering …