Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

We won’t go back.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

No one could have predicted…

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

This is just beautiful. Will

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This is just beautiful. Will Warren beats Alex Beam with a rhyme. I have not laughed so hard since the Heather Mallick poem.

He’s the ’62 Mets of the features page,
The de Havilland Comet of the modern age.
As solid as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge,
As sure as the Exxon Valdez, or Tom Ridge.
He’s the fourth Stooge, Charlie Brown without the nice,
The Titanic steaming madly toward the ice,
The Ottoman Empire of the copy desk,
With head so marbleized it’s quite statuesque.
Of prose pros in Beantown, he’s the shoddiest,
Of all Hub nimrods, he’s the nimroddiest.
He’s the ornament of the All-Schlump team:
Hail King Alex, news crap-out supreme!

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Is this memo really necessary?

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Is this memo really necessary?

The State Department, citing a “deteriorating security situation,” warned Americans on Tuesday to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and said dependents of American diplomats in Jerusalem were being encouraged to go home.

“The potential for further terrorist acts remains high,” the travel warning said. “The situation in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza remains extremely volatile with continuing terrorist attacks, confrontations and clashes.”

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Rand Simberg comes up with

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Rand Simberg comes up with some working definitions of terrorism for our twit ‘friends’ (even the moderate ones) at the OIC.

Here guys, let me help you out here–it’s clear that you’re confused.

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, if you strap TNT to yourself and detonate it in a crowded pizza parlor, you might be a terrorist.

If you walk into a wedding party and start spraying it with AK-47 rounds, you might be a terrorist.

If you drive a rental truck full of high explosives into the basement of a skyscraper and blow it up, you might be a terrorist.

If you purchase airplane tickets, then slit the throats of flight attendants and commandeer the aircraft, and fly it into the side of that same skyscraper, you might be a terrorist.

And if you obfuscate the definition of terrorism, use illogical and inconsistent statements to defend the above behaviors, change the subject whenever anyone calls you on it, pretend that there’s any justification whatsoever for them, ship weapons to those carrying them out, and provide large amounts of funding to the widows and family of the perps, you just might be a terrorist yourself.

In which case, you might want to at least consider recusing yourself from any committee dedicated to “defining terrorism.”

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Miss Hawk Girl asks: As

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As for our accuracy, I challenge any anti-bloggers out there to come up with the name of one blogger that has seen the slightest bit of success or traffic after repeatedly posting misinformation. Not legions, folks. Just one.

I can think of one. Jak’s Blog.

His every post is an endeavor into asininity, and he has proven himself infinitely impeccable in his idiocy. His traffic has probably jumped because it is so much fun for me and others to point out his foolishness. I don’t think he is a bad person per se, but a lot of his ideas are disgusting. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is just misguided (he will retort with some sort of ZOG related screed that I have been brainwashed by the Jew media, so I probably should not be that charitable). Today he essentially blamed slavery on capitalism. His daily Palestinian Log is a source of endless joy for me.

Yesterday, you might recall, a policeman stopped a suspicious looking driver in Jerusalem (sorry Jak- I am linking to an Israeli newspaper). The driver then detonated explosives in the car, killing himself and the policeman. Jak reports it as such:

During the past twenty-four hours, a Palestinian militant and an Israeli security officer were killed during at an attack on an Israeli roadblock.

Note the weasel words- militant, not terrorist. “Were killed during an attack on an Israeli roadblock.” Who attacked? The Germans? The Chinese? Oh, I am sorry- that was the terrorist who was attacking- the policeman. But was he really attacking the roadblock, or is that just where he was stopped, before he could successfully drive into a cafe full of civilians?

Also noticably absent from this ‘Palestinian Log’ is the fate of the 11 ‘collaborators’ who were gunned down in cold blood by armed gunmen. Indeed, all Palestinians are equal, some are just more equal than others.

It goes on and on, but why give him more hits for the sins Miss Hawk Girl discussed…

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