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Saving capitalism? The price could be democracy
Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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PZ Myers Talks About the 03.24.2012 Reason Rally
Governance by the Party of God
Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons.
Papantonio: Tea Party OK With Sexual Harassment
What’s God got to do with it?
He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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Starve the Beast
No doubt St. Ronnie McDumb Ass is looking up at us ever so proudly. And Grover, the confused size-queen, how is that government girth working out for you, is it yet down to the ideal volume where you can drown it in the bathtub?
Always Question Authority 