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The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

This fight is for everything.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

So many bastards, so little time.

The willow is too close to the house.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“But what about the lurkers?”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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I guess I might be

by John Cole|  April 8, 20028:20 pm| Leave a Comment

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I guess I might be a conservative after all. How else can I explain the visceral reaction I had when I heard that the Wall Street Journal was re-designing its layout- particularly without seeing the re-design? I don’t care if it is better- it is different, damnit.

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Jonah tells it like it

by John Cole|  April 8, 20026:51 pm| 101 Comments

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Jonah tells it like it is, again:

My views regarding the European political and intellectual elite have gone from mere contempt to palpable disgust.

Even the glow of the synagogues burning on soil already well fertilized with the viscera of Jews is paled by the bonfire of hypocrisy now raging in capitals across Europe. Recall last December, when France’s ambassador to England, Daniel Bernard, referred to Israel as “that shi**y little country,” asking, “Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?”

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Cold Fury examines a Paul

by John Cole|  April 8, 20026:23 pm| Leave a Comment

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Cold Fury examines a Paul Begala interview and leaves me laughing…

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Will Warren eviscerates the logic

by John Cole|  April 8, 20021:40 pm| Leave a Comment

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Will Warren eviscerates the logic of a bunch of tawdry, shameless Nobel Laureates in his latest offering:

The wretched and poor can’t do wrong-don’t you see?-
The successful can do no right;
The downcast are blameless, new Sophists agree:
All is justified by their plight.

Set off nail bombs in pizzerias? That’s fine:
The losers can never do wrong.
Blow up a Passover Seder? It’s benign:
How else can the weak fight the strong?

Go read the whole thing.

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Still waiting for everything to

by John Cole|  April 7, 20028:19 pm| Leave a Comment

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Still waiting for everything to get taken care of with the site re-design and the new domain name. It will not be long…. I hope..

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Great article by Perry about

by John Cole|  April 6, 20023:52 pm| Leave a Comment

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Great article by Perry about Israel’s mistakes. A must read.

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Sorry for the absence of

by John Cole|  April 6, 20023:50 pm| Leave a Comment

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Sorry for the absence of posts, but I do have an announcement: I am moving to Cornerhost and Movable Type. Should be done within the next week, complete with a new layout (designed by Helen Hart several months ago). I will let you know the new addy in a couple of days.

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